The Cheap Bicycle Shop. ????

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01-21-10 | 08:57 AM

jgedwa

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The Cheap Bicycle Shop. ????

This showed up in my local (Harrisburg, PA) CL in the bike section:

https://harrisburg.craigslist.org/bik/1562678332.html

I cannot tell if it is legit or not. Anyone know what this is?

jim

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01-21-10 | 09:24 AM

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Sounds like another shop I'd want nothing to ever do with.

01-21-10 | 09:27 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jgedwa

This showed up in my local (Harrisburg, PA) CL in the bike section:

https://harrisburg.craigslist.org/bik/1562678332.html

I cannot tell if it is legit or not. Anyone know what this is?

jim

It is a brick and mortars flipper

look at their value chart.

they offer $30 to $50 for a 700c pre 90s bike in excellent condition...

01-21-10 | 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by EjustE

It is a brick and mortars flipper

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Yep. We have a few commercial flippers in the Tampa/Sasasota/jacksonville/Orlando area. The market sucks for us common folk.

01-21-10 | 09:41 AM

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My Massi(assuming I had one) in excellent codition is only worth $40 per their chart. They will need to work on that. They don't seem to have any bikes for sale yet, so it is hard to tell what their mark-up will be.

It appears that they put alot of work into the website, so I would assume it is not a hoax.

01-21-10 | 10:02 AM

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01-21-10 | 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by EjustE

It is a brick and mortars flipper

look at their value chart.

they offer $30 to $50 for a 700c pre 90s bike in excellent condition...

Yeah, my clean but worn Rossin RL, all 7400-series Dura Ace came in a $75.00.

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