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@WillMelling
I had a very bad experience on here with a well regarded member which I didn't bother to write about at the time. This person, let's call them Pippy, bought a couple of saddles off me for very reasonable prices. Not 2 weeks later I happened to be browsing a niche sales forum and saw the same saddles for sale again at a 1000% mark up. In the intervening fortnight they had apparently been marinaded up his, and I quote, "big fat stinky arse" so that they now gave off an odour of "foul Antipodean man-dung". Now, I am no prude but I do think flipping in this way, no matter how much potentially fatal anal dilation is involved, isn't right. Just because there is a market for something doesn't mean that honest vendors like myself should be taken advantage of. One of those saddles came off my late father's bike and I'd assumed that it was going to someone planning a vintage build rather than to be befouled at the hands and rear of a common spiv.
All of which goes to show that reputation isn't always a reliable guide.