For Sale: need someone to collect a bike

I'm bidding on a vintage bike on ebay, but I live in Montreal. The seller is unwilling to ship, so I am looking for someone who would, for a fee, pick up the article and either a) convey it to a bike shop for packing (I can arrange shipping myself from there, via Parcel2Go), or b) pack it themselves for pick-up. Item is in Chesterfield. If you can help, or know someone who might, let me know. Payment in advance and I have purchased a few things off this forum, so I am not completely unknown.
I wasn't sure where to post this!
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Steven

have a bump, i hope someone will do this for you.

i would do it if it wasn't in london.

i couldn't even point to chesterfield on a map though!

I'll be in Chesterfield this weekend. Not sure how much time I'll have, where's the bike?

why does the forum decide to double post every now and again????

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easy ;)

Hey, I'll be in Chesterfield as well. There until Monday so we can help if it ends before then I guess.

i couldn't even point to chesterfield on a map though![/QUOTE]

Sigh!
Not many of you Londoners can see outside of the M25

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easy ;)

ah, so you can. Have you always been able to do that? i swear back in the day you couldn't!

i'm no londoner! i know devon and cornwall like the back of me 'and!

but for me, the north starts at the river thames!!! its all coal mines and manual labour from then on, right?

Looks like you've got this all tied up - if not, my sister lives in C-Town, I can ask her if she can sort it out. There's that quite famous little bike shop out towards Clowne shudder.

Famous Clowne. Never seen that before.

Thanks all, for the kind responses! Item ends only on Sunday, and now i have the additional complication that seller wants cash payment, does not use Paypal. aI m trying to sort this by offering cerified cheque by courrier or direct bank deposit. Realistically it would take a few days to do either, so if I a) win the item and B) can get agreement on the payment, pick-up could be, I would expect, at any time convenient to the person pickng up starting from 19th on. I will sort the current obstacle and then PM those who have kindly offered help. I don;t know what else I can do to reciprocate beyond payment for service, but if anyone on the forum sees someting in Quebec, Ontario or Vermont with similar challenges, I'd be available. Craigslist in Vermont has the occasional jewel, most recently a Seven Cycles Titanium road bike with Dura-Ace build that sold (very quicly!) for 1,100 US.

Thanks Louis!

Thanks Jian, I now have the payment issue sorted (quite the curmudgeon I am dealing with!). Will be looking for pick-up after the 12 th if I succeed. Will contact you if successful, to see if you can suggest something. Will also repost at that time to see if anyone is in or around Chesterfield at the right time. Very pleased with the nice, helpful response on the forum.
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Thanks, also, Jim.