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I'm sorry, but this post is largely rubbish and also manages to miss the point. It doesn't matter how successful they were at flipping it, the intention was clearly there. Just because they're a shit arsehole flipper doesn't mean they're not an arsehole flipper.
There's also a possibility he accepted a cash in hand offer via PM and accepted a very low offer to skirt fees etc. It happens.
The attitude "there are worse out there, so why not bother them instead!" is also pretty terrible.
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The whole point is; it doesn't seem to have been sold for any more money, than it was bought for.
Secondly, unless the OP is a business, then this was a private sale, that doesn't need to uphold distance selling rules. So if the purchaser bought the frame, and changed their mind and wanted to return they probably couldn't. Ebay is a much easier platform to sell a bike-related asset, than the LFGSS forum, so if the buyer needed their to recoup their funds quickly; it would be most logical to use ebay. You would be a total failure as a reseller, if you sold an item; that you intended to turn a profit from, within a few days, for the same price that you paid.
I agree; I wouldn't buy items on these classifieds unless I needed them for personal use. However, this isn't 2007 anymore when the classifieds were a place to barter parts for beers etc. It has now become a largely unregulated global selling platform, with a huge volume of anonymous and casual users, not connected with the early days of the forum or it's etiquette.
There are likely more worthy targets, of your socioeconomic internet justice, who could be harangued online; if that's what floats your boat. ;-)