Thanks. I'm no big time ebay seller, but I've found that forthright descriptions go a long way towards keeping my ebay life simple. This is as much in self-interest as it is in some sort of abstract ethics. Dealing w/an irate buyer who feels like they've been misled is not my idea of a fun aspect of what is supposed to be an enjoyable hobby.

Early on, I missed some issues on one or two items and I just refunded the money and let the buyer keep the item anyhow & let that be a lesson to myself to carefully go over stuff.

For this frame, if I were shady, I could easily have sold it w/out comment on its history and had a very high probability that most buyers would never have noticed anything. I took closeups of the minor paint distress that makes it really clear, but you'd never notice it if you weren't specifically examining it in pretty great detail. Again, I'm not setting myself up as some saint, I just want peace and quiet in my life. So even though my amateur opinion that this frame is very likely ok as it is, some buyer later on deciding his lovely Tommasini frame had a history doesn't fit that peace and quiet model.

I've actually learned a lot from this exercise about how to rapidly and closely scrutinize a frame. I'm getting a lot of queries from guys w/tools like Kurt. I think that some of them may end up a bit disappointed that the frame isn't bent out of spec and needing some gentle mercies.