Originally Posted by crashnburn
So if you send them a check and own the bike they have no right to say that you can't ship it. That is like a person on ebay, I would make that argument with them that as the rightfull owner you can have things shipped wherever you wanted them. This may squeak by, I would talk with the bike shop again.
I doubt this one sell would be worth it to the shop to possibly lose the Specialized line. If someone at Specialized, Giant, Trek finds out that a shop sells on-line they will no longer sell to that shop. Some companies, namely Giant, actually search ebay and other places on-line searching for their bikes being sold, if it looks funny they will call the shop, trust me, I've received calls from them when a bike was on ebay in my area.