thanks all you guys!
CASE CLOSED...

background info:
a seller in montreal CL wants a big 170bucks for this bike (a little steep anways to begin with, especially given his add saying its "all tuned up" but check out that lame cableing work. I did give him cred. for cleaning it up nice tho, ahah lol). So anywyas I wrote him a cordial email saying he might draw bad attention with a bent fork like that. he replied with really pissy emails calling names and all... saying I knew nothing about bikes and that he own a bike shop etc...etc...and that i criticised his bike and to prove him that its bent blah blah blah .... (actually sent me that high res photo along with 4 others..)

So i replied and said that he was just a angry grumpy man....and that i never said it was "broken". I actually said from the looks of it, based on the pics... the fork looks bent and that its generally seen as something dangerous to ride a bike like that... and that unless he didnt know about it himself he could get bad attention from it. I simply suggested to revise his add. Nicely...

So now case closed... hes just being a ******bagette.

Reno