Please explain this "$15 Paramount"
 

If this was already posted, sorry but I must have missed it.

I'm not prepared to believe this is real, but I can't quite put my finger on the scam. Anyone?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PARAMOUNT-SC...ht_2753wt_1202

Ebay auction ended with BIN of .99 and 14.00 shipping.
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Where's the confused/exasperated emoticon when you need it

That's how I feel. Or maybe the seller deliberately set the price low to avoid all those Ebay fees.

The seller maybe made a mistake when they listed it, and confused it with some other item they were selling?

Check out the feedback of the seller.

I think someone made a little mistake that may eat into his profit margin a bit.

I'm kinda wishing I'd seen it before someone else bought it! Not that I need another bike, but it does seem a pretty good deal.

Oh, I see I'm late to the party. Never mind!

I can't imagine that's for realz... 14 bucks to ship it?

I've made a couple of frame and whole bike purchases on ebay where the shipping was quoted at something stupidly low like 14 bux or 20 bux or whatever...in all cases the bike arrived poorly packed...in a couple of cases just tossed in a box with no padding.

Each time I balked (although only a little because I knew what the response was gonna be) and each time it was someone who'd never shipped a bike and had no idea how much shipping was gonna cost and excused their packaging job by saying that the shipping costs ate into their profit on the sale. Not my problem jack, but it becomes my problem if the thing gets damaged in shipping. I don't avoid auctions with unrealistically low shipping costs, but I do steel myself for what's coming and expect the worst and a bit of back and forth with the seller. .... That's the price you pay for a bargain though