BikesDirect "Motobecane" not really vintage or classic but still a killer deal--only why is the seatpost cluster painted black that way? .

CIOCC

https://offerup.com/item/detail/abdb...7e7851?q=ciocc

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I am curious what kind of success you guys are having out there connecting with sellers and completing a purchase? 2 sellers I made full price offers on never got a response back even while ads stayed up - 1 is still up and she won't reply. Yesterday I drove 130mi RT 3+ hours got caught behind an accident and was 15 mins late. I told the seller how far I was traveling & traffic would be a variable. I asked for a cell # to update but he refused. When I arrived, he wasn't there. I waited 20 mins after messaging FB and he refused to come out of his apartment. After the 90-minute drive home I went to message him to try and understand what happened he left a raging message AT me saying that I was a scammer and a fraud, and he blocked and reported my account. I can't even begin to comprehend this since I was there exactly where I said I would be, and he couldn't even be bothered to walk the 75 feet out of his apartment and maybe see if I arrived late! Sad part is I really wanted the bike and I was interested in looking at a second bike he had listed and was prepared to make an offer. Now I am just out $50 gas and 3+ hours of my time........

I had a similar experience trying to buy a bike last week. Fortunately, it was only a 25 minute drive. When I texted the seller, he said he's afraid of scammers and suggested another meeting date and time. I passed on his offer.

Well that does suck.
There are some very strange people out and about, or holed up in front of a screen.
Best not to fund their weirdness.

blame the scammers-real shaky trying to make a deal these days.have had good replies from CL and nothing on FB.3 hours driving for nothing is a piss'R.

$75. Campbellsport, WI
 

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$100. Folsom, PA
 

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$200. ehh. Burlington, ON
 

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$350. pro Koga. Cleveland, OH
 

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4 for $20 - Hacienda Heights, CA
https://offerup.com/item/detail/9da0...03b567?cid=7.4
Nice Univega in the front, Bianchi in the back
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...63dd706f1b.jpg

Thank you for your feedback. I am thinking I am going to focus on local purchases only from this point forward.

Thank you for your feedback. BTW I found the same bike posted by a different seller in the city next door to the one I went to yesterday but at twice the price. I left him my reply message to calling me a fraud and a scammer but of course he has not replied.

Its too bad that not all of the good bikes are posted on CL. I may try to focus on that more now though.........

Most of my purchases have gone well, with just a couple that didn't. The first was entirely Yahoo mail's fault, I had been communicating with the seller pretty often, suggested a meetup the following morning, and from then it was just radio silence. I even drove out to the town he lived in in case he responded (not a big sacrifice, my favorite bakery is in that town.) A half hour after the meetup time had passed I remembered to check my spam folder and sure enough, he had sent me a confirmation with his address as well as an angry follow-up message because I didn't show up. YahooMail can suck it.

The second, seller didn't reply for days at a time. We set up a rough day/time, but he never sent an address. It was a three hour drive so I took off hoping he'd get back to me... He didn't. I set up a second meeting a couple days later, showed up at his house, and had to knock at the door for several minutes before he answered, I almost called it quits and went home. In retrospect I really wish I'd haggled on that one.

Good condition 1986 Team Fuji, $250, Columbus Ohio . Flamingo 🦩 Pink, quad-butted Chro-mo, Suntour Sprint
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http://www.facebook.com/share/L94TnP...ibextid=kL3p88

Very cool

Louisville KY? Cincinnati, OH? Japanese Schwinn Voyageur! Good size! Facebook Mktplc. $125 Cynthiana, KY.

http://www.facebook.com/marketplace/...4236918026904/

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...dA&oe=661AB439

A bike with no wheels...could be a legit CIOCC, if so from the Bonati/Conti era Whatever it is it appears to need some TLC and it's Thron tubing (if that decal is also legit)...so the $750 asking price is, uh, very inflated.

That Bianchi loks like a lower end '86ish bike, the Univega Hybrid might be a be bike.

Rare frame for the connoisseur ,Vintage Columbus Max Grandis Overmax Frame a very high end steel frame besting the Colnago Master X Light or even the Bianchi in Columbus EL or the Bianchi in Columbus Max, the Overmax was and is a very specific tubing made by Columbus for Grandis which was more resistant and than the Max tubing itself, I already have an Overmax but this one is truely one of its kind. Not cheap but craftsmanship is here

Rivendell Atlantis - $850 - Santa Monica, CA
https://losangeles.craigslist.org/ws...735511488.html

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Novara Outback - $120 - LA, CA
https://offerup.com/item/detail/3889...novara&cid=7.4
'83 or '84 likely made by Diamond Back - https://mtbtimeline.com/wiki/novara/start

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Where I live there are a slew of bikes posted on Facebook Marketplace, at least a couple of hundred vs only around 50 to 60 on CL, but both places about 99% are low end bikes, with some guys trying to get a lot of money for what was a low end bike back in the 70's, but because it's steel with lugs they think it's something special and we're to think that too!

Trek 520 project bike - $125 - Georgetown KY

http://www.facebook.com/marketplace/...6770699186378/

https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net...og&oe=661B5A22