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To the forum users....Ps (not a specific reply to Fintan!!....just across the board)
Thanks for the feedback....Just to clarify, I think the use of the words 'due diligence" in relation to a NEW or OLD member of a forum is absurd.....the use of the term 'medical field' in relation to the due diligence was to highlight the absurdity of using the term in relation to SELLING A BIKE...(and I don't know how I would have previous sales history as a new member through this forum to negate the lack of trust that invokes......should this be met with a veiled attack on my personal honesty I think everyone here myself included buys from unknown people online....the option if I wish to purchase something online is to weigh the risk and research before I buy/part with money) equally, I don't think a mocking tone in relation to the price and the fact that I am located on the other side of the world is justified and frankly quite petty). All I was doing was offering a bike for sale, the differences shown in the prices reflects the rapid slide of the Australian dollar over the last couple of months.and the different posting times.....(almost 15%) the reason it was on any other site, was that I was unaware that the other posts had not fully removed.......My intention in offering a bike which some see as expensive (which in my opinion it is!..(but certainly not in my opinion overpriced.)...and costs no more so than a run of the mill carbon frame with ultegra 11........horses for courses....I may feel someone laying down 4k on a campag 50th group in a different light to the buyer....but I wouldn't mock him over it). In relation to the fairly unique nature of the bike....I stand by it...(the tagline is that, a tagline, it's not meant to be a proclamation of personal superiority......and I don't think mentioning that the bike was on show at the Rapha shop is anything to be ashamed of......I think it just highlights the quality of the bike....I suppose they could have put a 6k Dogma up there and yes, I spent a lot of personal time answering/photographing and replying to a lot of people (WHICH I EXPECT TO DO), who the majority of the time, either did not follow up the reply or who made an offer that was well over 50% lower than advertised.....so there have been a lot of timewasters/dreamers.....just as I would be that if I was getting in touch with Eddy Merckx for one of his 70th's.....Is it worth the nearly 20k for a steel frame and campag group??...You could look at the offers as ....well maybe that's what it's worth....well to certain people it is....and them people should walk on by.....just as I did with the Merckx...but I'm still daydreaming!!)...I see thousands of everybrand 2k carbon machines I could pick up any day of the week, I don't think there are many 1977 Guerciotti with this spec as NOS around..and the ones I see people/dealers putting up there can be significantly more)....I don't understand why people can not just look at the post, inquire if interested, and pass by if not......simple (the other listings I have/attempted to remove), I was unaware of the sardonic nature of the Talking heads post....which I have no issue with (showing I was unaware that it had not removed from the other site as I didn't at the time connect the reason for the post).....and Like this bike, Half Man Half Biscuit is a Marmite taste.......each to their own. Without any need or want for comment or feedback on this next point, I am selling this bike as my son is seriously ill and have a need not a desire to part with this bike.....................I would have liked it to go to a fellow cyclist/enthusiast without resorting to Ebay...... Best wishes to all cyclists out there..................Now off to watch some ten pin bowling
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I think the reason you were pulled up on the phrase 'fairly unique' is because there's no such thing, not because people doubted that the bike was indeed unique in any way: something is either unique or it isn't, and cannot be unique by degrees.
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Holy Shit. All that and I still can’t find the bit admitting that just maybe you brought some of this on yourself…?
Your (now edited) Jordan Belfort sales pitch was bound to provoke some sarcastic responses. Your (also now edited) declaration that you didn’t want to be bothered by “dreamers and timewasters” didn’t help. It’s a bike forum, it’s full of dreamers and timewasters who comment on bikes. They’re the ones most likely to buy your bike.
Your whining about how you were treated as a new member doesn’t hold up either. Explore the site (and not just the classifieds). New members who make an effort get welcomed with open keyboards. First time posters who swing by just to make a profit on something get understandably treated with a smidgen of suspicion at first. You’re joining the site, make an effort.
The AU$/GBP exchange rate bit, fair enough, but even there it’s up to you to check, and perfectly justified for people on here to query. AU$3500 to £2000 was the rate a good 6 months back at least, not just a few weeks ago.
I'm genuinely sorry to hear about your son, and good luck with selling your bike, but jeezus, stop blaming everyone else for your bad sales pitch.
I not a fan of HMHB. Owen Paul though, rock on!
The_Kindness_of_Trees
Philbythesea
This is such a tricky one.
I was with halfmanhalfbiscuit about the unfriendliness towards new posters but then I noticed the Rapha club reference and then I noticed the 'my work in the medical field' bit, and then I noticed he's called himself halfmanhalfbiuscuit. Half Man Half Biscuit were one of Peel's fatal errors anyone who brings their music back to mind needs banning.
Nice bike though.