I gotta say I disagree with a few things here. I frequently list a bike as vintage if it is in fact vintage. Doesn't affect my price any, I just want people to know it's not a brand new shiny Walmart bike. I always list my common dpt store road bikes as XXcm road bikes, and they are always a bargain. It's so hard to sell the average 10 speed around here that I sell them for $10-$15 completely refurbished. Also, if a bike needs restoration I don't see how it deserves to be tossed. So that 1932 whatever is covered in surface rust and has a bent wheel, I'll sell it to you for $10-$20 which gives you plenty of room to invest in restoring it. Most of the bikes I sell are oldies that need restored. One other thing, if everything works on a bike, I say everything works. No hidden gimmicks, everything really does work. And of course all my listings end in OBO, Taco Bell money is Taco Bell money as far as I'm concerned. As long as I break even I'm "good to go."

I tried just listing a bike as exactly what it was, no details whatsoever. The main questions I received are, how old is it, does everything work, does it need restored, and what size is it. Based on those questions I began including all of those details in my listings, and now when a person calls they already know all the answers, so the only reason they call is to schedule a time to come look at it. I get less than 1 idiot a week, and that makes me very happy.

Maybe things are different elsewhere, but around here not many of the things in this thread hold true. exept for teh peeple who use all lowwer case letters and spaell horribly those peeple reely annoy me and thay reely do seam to always hav stolen wallmart bikes. Other than that and rampant chain flagging by a-holes my CL is bearable.