Originally Posted by
3alarmer
...the best deals on CL for Italian bikes are usually the ones that are great bikes from experienced frame shops with little name recognition. So bikes with names like Faggin, Rauler, some of the top line Atala's etc. all generally get listed and sold for less than Colnago, Masi, Cinelli, etc. There are a lot of miscellaneous threads here you can look through to see what people have noticed are great Italian bikes that fly under the radar.
And it's kind of a buyer's market right now.
You can even get good deals on Italian made Bianchis; since they made mid range and entry level bikes, unlike the prestige brands like Colnago/De Rosa/etc, they never really had the premium markup that the top brands had.
The absolute top models like Bianchi Specialissimas will cost you, but you can get something really nice like a Campione Del Mondo for a decent price.