I knew what the parts where but there are little details that you can't find out until the parts are in hand. The list said "carbon post" not carbon wrapped post. It said carbon fork but didn't say "steel steer tube". The brakes were Tektro which are middle of the road but these were just bad. No information was given on the length of the stem nor on the width and shape of the handlebars. There certainly wasn't anything said about some gorilla installing the bottom bracket cups nor about the cups being a proprietary cup that would be difficult to find.

If I had purchased the bike from a shop, I could have seen and tested the bike and the parts. You just can't do that on-line. This wasn't my first time (or second or fifth or even 10th) building a frame from but it was my first time ordering a bike from BD and attempting to use it for a donor frame. There were some things that I suspected wouldn't fit (seat post and the fork was iffy) but I didn't expect so little to work.