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Stolen Colnago?? Weird response from eBay seller

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  • July 6, 2017 at 10:48 am #27324
    Team EPO

    Given there are so many bike thefts of high end bikes I always like to ask the eBay lister a few questions about the bike especially when they don’t give much detail in the listing.  

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222572096640?euid=fcc3341e2b4b4693a7855973fd83aae8&bu=43135590695&cp=1&sojTags=bu=bu

    So, the response I got form the guy was bit off kilter or am I reading too much into it?

     

     

    “Not being funny here.Ive been asked this 3/4 times and I think it s really errevelant.You must know yourself what bike frame size suits yourself? 

    As for the wheels it s clear in the picture that they are fast forward clincher wheel set .Its written all over them.”

     

     

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  • July 10, 2017 at 6:46 am #896731
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    Chris Hayes

    Might not have been nicked..

    Might not have been nicked…could just have run away from an abusive owner who put Japanese, 2nd tier, electric gears on an Italian frame….

    July 9, 2017 at 9:53 pm #896729
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    Nick T
    matthewn5 wrote:
    Nick T wrote:
    matthewn5 wrote:
    So I think the advert is right, 56cm top tube = 52s. The fact that he doesn’t know it’s 52s shows he knows nothing about Colnagos.

     

    Colnago sizes go by the length of the seat tube, not the top tube

    That’s exactly what I said.

     

    52s has a top tube around 54cm, effective length of 55cm. What you said was 56cm top tube = 52s; it doesn’t, and it’s not how anyone else would measure  their Nag either

    July 9, 2017 at 8:07 pm #896727
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    davel

    Yorkshire wallet wrote:

    Yorkshire wallet wrote:

    BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
    re just crap at grammar, crap at describing stuff and some that really just don’t like answering questions. You can conversely get all the patter, great details, perfect English and it turns out to be a wrong ‘un.

    This is true, it’s easy to dismiss a bargain because you think that everyone shoud have been to grammar school. There’s plenty of people with way more money and way less education than me with stuff to sell, sometimes at a bargain price. 

     

    On the other hand, some more blatant scam spam is thought to use bad grammar as a means to whittle down the targets to those daft enough to fall for the sting: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/9346371/Nigerian-scam-emails-deliberately-implausible.html

    July 9, 2017 at 5:35 pm #896725
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    Anonymous
    BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
    re just crap at grammar, crap at describing stuff and some that really just don’t like answering questions. You can conversely get all the patter, great details, perfect English and it turns out to be a wrong ‘un.

    This is true, it’s easy to dismiss a bargain because you think that everyone shoud have been to grammar school. There’s plenty of people with way more money and way less education than me with stuff to sell, sometimes at a bargain price. 

     

    July 9, 2017 at 5:17 pm #896723
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    Anonymous

    I bought a top end hybrid for

    I bought a top end hybrid for the missus some years ago, it was in london (80 mile round trip), price was ridiculously cheap and advertised on gumtree or Friday-ad.

    had the kids number (he was about 17/18) and he wanted me to meet near his mums flat where he lived.

    Beforehand I rang local plod to ask if anyone had had a bike matching the description stolen. it would have stood out as it had XT groupset, Spesh s-Works carbon bars, carbon post, carbon forks, carbon seat stays, certainly as a ladies specific bike there were very few in the country and was a newish model plus the bike was in mint condition. No, was the answer, which for me was good enough.

    he’d said he’d bought it from the market to get around on but as it was a ladies he was a bit embaressed, he didn’t know much about the bike or the spec. i even haggled him down another tenner cos of the Northern blood and £140 later I’m in possesion of a top of the range bike that the missus could ride 40 miles on with ease.

    I’ve done ebay for 16 years, there are some that are just crap at grammar, crap at describing stuff and some that really just don’t like answering questions. You can conversely get all the patter, great details, perfect English and it turns out to be a wrong ‘un.

    Earlier this year I was sold fake carbon wheels purporting to be Vision 50mm tubs with Bitex hubs and CX-Ray spokes, bought in the US for a lower end race but not used. The barcodes were all there and the seller wasn’t too far away but postage was reasonable enough so had them posted. It wasn’t until i got them that the alarm bells started sounding.

    Drill holes for the valve were horrendous, spokes were no name chinese jobs and the braking surfaces looked fag paper thin and didn’t look quite right for tubulars that were supposed to have a special braking surface on them.

    I contacted Vision whom put me in touch with the European rep of the company that actually manufactures them. I showed him the bar codes and other bits and he told me they were deffo fakes. I contacted ebay and the seller and basically said i’d call the police. Still took three weeks to get my money back with the seller still saying they weren’t fakes.

     

    ATEOTD, it is a buyers market and sometimes even if it’s something you really want, if you’re not comfortable just walk away, something else will come up.

    July 9, 2017 at 10:02 am #896721
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    CygnusX1

    Jack Osbourne snr wrote:

    Jack Osbourne snr wrote:
    I love the inferences here suggesting that those whose grasp of the finer points of the English language may not be quite at degree level can’t either own or sell on Colnago’s.

    Do you need a Ph.D to own a Storck?

    I’m sure there are many of us who have met for example, plumbers who earn huge amounts of cash and could afford any bike they like… If they could only spell it proper, like.


    I agree. From the seller’s other items it looks like he’s a plumber/handyman, he struggles to differentiate between centimetres and inches (which may explain why he’s selling new access panels etc) he’s also got a fixie for sale and the colnago and some cycling shoes are visible in the background of one of the photos for that. Also has a child of 9+ months maybe he’s been told to get rid of those bl**dy bikes by his wife/girlfriend?

    July 9, 2017 at 8:56 am #896719
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    matthewn5
    Nick T wrote:
    matthewn5 wrote:
    So I think the advert is right, 56cm top tube = 52s. The fact that he doesn’t know it’s 52s shows he knows nothing about Colnagos.

     

    Colnago sizes go by the length of the seat tube, not the top tube

    That’s exactly what I said.

     

    July 9, 2017 at 8:32 am #896717
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    Jack Osbourne snr

    I love the inferences here
    I love the inferences here suggesting that those whose grasp of the finer points of the English language may not be quite at degree level can’t either own or sell on Colnago’s.

    Do you need a Ph.D to own a Storck?

    I’m sure there are many of us who have met for example, plumbers who earn huge amounts of cash and could afford any bike they like… If they could only spell it proper, like.

    July 9, 2017 at 1:15 am #896715
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    Redvee
    risoto wrote:
    Oh, just checked the photos – ask him about the bike computer. (out-front handle bar mount is installed).

     

    I’ve aksed what the bracket on the handlebars is for.

    The last pic has a pair of shoes in the background so he’s nicked the shoes too, allegedly.

    July 8, 2017 at 8:08 pm #896713
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    BikingBud

    Obviously not a biker crosss

    Obviously not a biker crosss chaining like that

    July 8, 2017 at 7:25 pm #896711
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    risoto

    Oh, just checked the photos –

    Oh, just checked the photos – ask him about the bike computer. (out-front handle bar mount is installed).

    July 8, 2017 at 7:21 pm #896709
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    risoto

    Not to insult your

    Not to insult your intelligence, we can all be seduced by something we want too badly, but isn’t this obvious? Just reading the first line of text would make me run, not walk, away with the extremely poor language. 

    If you wish to proceed ask him questions like:

     – Why do you want to sell it?

     – What does riding the bike feel like?

     – What kind of riding do you do?

    – How long have you been riding?

     – Do you have the original receipt?

    – Ask him some very technical questions about the bike that he cannot just google to find out. 

    I only buy stuff on the internet from sellers with minimum 99% approval ratings. 

    July 8, 2017 at 12:16 pm #896707
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    dottigirl

    I wouldn’t provide a serial

    I wouldn’t provide a serial number to anyone except the winning bidder after payment had been received – thieves can use a ‘clean’ number for a stolen bike. 

     

    July 8, 2017 at 9:55 am #896705
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    kev-s

    Its a genuine Colnago, ask

    Its a genuine Colnago, ask him for a pic of the serial number (if he can find it)

     

    Also ask him if the di2 charger is included and has the firmware been updated to the latest version, and can he supply a pic

     

    Deffo a 52s frame, two other things make it look suspect and thats the pedals and garmin mount

     

    Most people would remove these for their next bike

     

    Although i can see a pair spd’s in the back ground, so he prob does ride

    July 7, 2017 at 4:02 pm #896703
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    Nick T
    matthewn5 wrote:
    So I think the advert is right, 56cm top tube = 52s. The fact that he doesn’t know it’s 52s shows he knows nothing about Colnagos.

     

    Colnago sizes go by the length of the seat tube, not the top tube

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