Originally Posted by spencewine

It's silly because you were publicly celebrating your "score" before the purchase had even occurred. It's silly that when the purchase didn't occur, you choose to call the seller a slime bag and go on a blaming rampage against the denizens of Chicagoland. The seller isn't a slime bag because he/she didn't sell you the bike. Reality is that you were cherry-picking this from 600 miles away, it didn't work out. Oh well. I haven't found anything in this thread that suggests camaraderie except Golden Boy's attempts to prove that there was something more here than the typical CL rigamarole.