Mercian in elephant and castle cycle shop

Posted on Fri 25th, April 2008

• #1

prototype

just in case anyone is interested, recycle under the railway arches in elephant have a gray mercian for £275. I didn't have time to have a good look at it but its a large frame. I'm sure there is room to haggle but a word of warning though, i've always found the staff in there constantly trying to rip you off and total sales people. Once, they tried to charge me £5 to remove a freewheel and gave me some bullshit about how it's supposed to be £7.50 and that they were doing me a favour. I walked away.
• #2

Greasy_Paws

I have always found their 2nd hand bikes overpriced. The staff is not particularly friendly either. When looking for odd bits, they never let me have a look at the piles of stuff they have at the back of the shop and always tell me to come back Saturday morning.
To be fair, however, I managed to persuade them to let me have a decent peugeot road frame for 20 squid, but that was back in 2000 and there were under different management.
I have always wondered how they manage to do any profit...

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