Tandem Cycling - What's up with these Cheap Tandem Offers?

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wheelspeed
09-15-08, 10:36 AM
Like this one: http://cardiff.gumtree.com/cardiff/50/25197450.html

This list is on about 20 different websites, from different people. Never a store website or phone number listed. Anyone have any experience with that kind of thing?

Ziemas
09-15-08, 10:38 AM
Like this one: http://cardiff.gumtree.com/cardiff/50/25197450.html

This list is on about 20 different websites, from different people. Never a store website or phone number listed. Anyone have any experience with that kind of thing?

Looks like a variation of the 'Ben's Bikes' (or whatever other hundred names it has) scam.
wheelspeed
09-16-08, 11:48 AM
Yeah, I guess so. Don't know what "Ben's Bikes" is, but I sent an e-mail to two of these websites having tandems, and haven't heard anything back yet. Looks like a scam.

Ziemas
09-16-08, 11:51 AM
Yeah, I guess so. Don't know what "Ben's Bikes" is, but I sent an e-mail to two of these websites having tandems, and haven't heard anything back yet. Looks like a scam.

It's a fake online store that would pop up with really cheap bikes and a million different names, but always the same photos.