Regarding sale situation, from a guy on Ebay, claiming new frame unbuilt. Clearly no bottom bracket had ever been installed. Headset cups were pressed in.

He said he was going to build but then found a complete bike.

Not at all my usual way to buy a frameset, but the steel Fargo in my size did not exist at any shop as far as I can tell. I called at least 30 shops. One big Salsa dealer told me that QBP was no longer going to make any steel frames under the Salsa brand - Surly was going to be the steel label. And as such he doubted the steel Fargo would ever be made again - too much overlap with existing Surlys.

So took a chance based on this info. Guy sent along original receipts and had frameset pro-packed at shop. Unfortunately his name is on the receipt. Guess sometimes the bear eats you.

FWIW, the frameset and fork were pristine - uncut fork steerer, not even a tiny mark an anything, headset parts looking pristine in orginal.packaging. If someone installed the fork and figured out there was a flaw they were pretty cagey about it ....