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@coppiThat
no blame shoreditch, if shoreditch hadn't been invented the prices would be cheap.
fashion and knowledge inflates prices.
magazines and videos about things and trends make things popular, they become fashionable and as a consequence people with more money and some more money than sense decide that they want something and they want the best of it.
searching knowledge also inflates the price. there was a time when you could find badly spelt items on the bay, now if you look for something relatively rare it gives you the name of five other rare bicycle frames or components that you might be interested in. the world of cycling is bigger than this forum and so is the interest in cycling always has been and always will be.people have bought and sold bicycles from before we were born. i used to press 'watch item' and actually think that nobody else had seen it. i used to feel hard done by if i lost an item by one pound. now i throw my best shot in with honesty and take it from there, if i lose then i lose and i wait for the next train (for sure there will be another one). but to lose and think "i would have paid a pound more" is pointless because it might have taken twenty pounds more to un-seat the winning bidder. always remember,,,we are only borrowing this stuff.