One thing that may help is expanding your search outside of name brands. What I mean, is use cl's search function to search for things like "men's road bike" or "men's bike". This will open up the market a little, to include bikes whose seller doesn't know what they have, either that or are clueless about how to market it. I got my Peugeot mixte this way. It was listed as "lady's bike" or something like that. I used to do pinpoint searches, like Bianchi, Peugeot, etc. But everyone does that.

Nevertheless, with most of the cl bikes I've purchased, I was the 1st responder and I showed up immediately with the cash. And the seller usually had backup offers, before I even got there.