Originally Posted by
Zaphod Beeblebrox
I watched a couple StrongLights and a TA or two go over the last couple of weeks for under 50 bux...woulda snapped em up if i had the money or the need
That Grand Cru is a Beautiful Crankset
Keep in mind: That fifty buck crank is not only a matter of having the money to buy, but it's also a matter of having the luck to be in the right place at the right time - and having nobody else there to compete with you for the purchase. It strikes me that $160.00 isn't all that unreasonable to have an item that is in stock when you need it, at a quality that you already know what to expect.
We're always guilty of people comparing the price of a one-in-a-million purchase with something that's commercially available. I wish the group was equally willing to brag about the times that they grossly overpaid on something that they needed.
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“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)