Lovely Canyon Box on ebay

Makes me think of avoiding
Makes me think of avoiding Canyon.

Gizmo_ wrote:…
The question

Gizmo_ wrote:

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The question is… why on earth would you not just return it to the company for a refund if you didn’t want it? How damaged did it get when it fell off the back of the lorry?

Actually – I’ve got a new, unused Canyon Ultimate AL SLX frame I need to sell (will put it on Ebay sometime later this week). I ordered the size M frame back at the end of April with the intention of building up a bike for a Paris to Nice ride I was taking part in and using it as a winter bike. I ordered size M because that’s the size I ordered for my Canyon Aeroad and that bike fits perfectly. I should have compared the geometry – that was my mistake.

When I placed the order for the frame, the Canyon site said it was in stock and would be shipping the next week. It didn’t. It finally arrived at the end of May – one day before I left for a 4 month stay in France – which didn’t give me time to build up the bike before I left as I had planned to do. Once I got to France I was too busy working on my house to get round to building up the new bike until mid July – which is when I discovered the frame was too small and my 30 days return period had expired. Ended up ordering another Ultimate AL SLX frame in size L and building up that bike for my ride. Canyon bikes are great value for money, but the operational side of their business sucks balls – you really don’t want to hear how they handled the derailleur hanger I needed after crashing on my way to Geneva.

Interestingly, the price I paid for the size M was £80 more, but it came with some “free” goodies: a Topeak multitool, Joe Blow track pump, Canyon branded water bottles etc. Not long after I ordered the size M the price dropped and they stopped giving the “free” goodies with the frame.

It’s gotta be.
It’s gotta be.

I don’t think the location
I don’t think the location makes much difference to be honest, it’s just as likely to be the same lot. In the Summer I noticed the CF SLX’s slowly getting spread out over the country.
It seems a Sheffield slum was’nt quite the point of sale for a 4 grand bike.
I did’nt take it any further than the Canyon email.
To be honest I was a little disappointed with their response. I was expecting something along the lines of ‘wow great thanks, you’re such a great guy for letting us know, here’s a £3700 off your next bike voucher.’
Infact they made me feel a bit dirty for having gone and looked. 🙂

This is in London. I don’t
This is in London. I don’t doubt that there is actually a bike in the box, as they have the ebay moneyback buyer’s guarantee.

But it does seem very suspicious, if it was a genuine purchase from Canyon, it could have been returned. The box hasn’t even been opened so it can’t be an issue with size/colour etc. If he had obtained it genuinely, surely he would put in the description a note about why he was selling it – quite common for genuine sellers of bikes on ebay these days.

DanTe wrote:This looks like

DanTe wrote:

This looks like more of the up North Canyon credit card posse.
I can’t think of anything other than card fraud.
There’s been loads of them on there.

Do you have any more info on that?

Exactly it’s likely “moody”,
Exactly it’s likely “moody”, and a risk any potential buyer should be aware of. Also has the groupset untouched? If it’s a legit purchase then it would have been returned? Unless the wrong size /special order.

In general the listing smells a bit, but some people do get lucky like this. It is collect in person after all so the buyer could just take a bike geek to verify the goods, and a couple more big mates for backup, and in case you need to walk away with your money intact.

The listing doesn’t even say which colour it is. Green or white?
( http://www.canyon.com/en/roadbikes/bike.html?b=3580#tab-reiter1 )
Aluminium is the frame material not the colour?

Best value secondhand goods seem to be bike forums/clubs and then people leaving the country suddenly 🙂