Actually, I think it is rather the other way around. Many of the bikes you see in my pictures had been sitting on a local classifieds site for weeks or even months and would have ended up in the trash right away or be bought by a student, only to be left a a train station two months later with a flat tire to rust away, had I not spent many, many hours looking at old and badly written ads with fuzzy low-res phone pictures and picked them up.