I purchased an antique/vintage bicycle front fender, or so I thought, at a yard sale. My 1st mistake The front fender was in excellent condition w/ original paint, heavy duty "ridge spine" down the center top and peculiar looking metal hooks along the inside of the fender. These "hooks" reminded me of modern bike caliper pull brake cable hooks but a bike that this fender would fit would be far to old for caliper brakes, why are they there? Oh well I am not an antique/ vintage bicycle expert, what do I know?...My 2nd mistake. So I listed the antique/vintage bike fender on eBay as a bicycle front fender not a bicycle/motorcycle front fender...My 3rd mistake. I had purchased the fender at the yard sale for $20.00 for I listed it on eBay for $69.99 with priority shipping included. I thought my asking price was very profitable at being over 3 times my purchase cost, what an entrepreneur I was...My 4th mistake.

My antique/vintage bicycle front fender sold in about 1/2 hour on eBay, kind of quickly but it happens some time...My 5th mistake.

The buyer paid immediately and I shipped his fender an hour later as promised in my eBay listing promised "same day shipping & handling" Time went by and my buyer received his fender and left me 5 star positive feedback "Super fast shipping & thanks for the motorcycle fender" I emailed my eBay buyer back asking him "What motorcycle fender?" He replied that the antique/ vintage bicycle fender I had sold him, with the peculiar hooks, Was in fact the front fender to an early 1930's Excelsior Motorcycle. I asked him what a front fender, in such fine condition, for an early 1930's Excelsior Motorcycle was worth. He replied $500.00 and gave me his new eBay listing item number. There was my antique/vintage bicycle fender now listed as an early 1930's Excelsior Motorcycle fender for $500.00 shipping not included. Boy did I ever learn a hard lesson as now when I list any bicycle part I also make sure I include the word "Motorcycle" in the title just in case.