Over 5 days, the life and death of a Fuji for $45.

Me
are the rims steel or aluminum?
can you provide a few closeups of the derailleur and anywhere the paint is rusted/scraped?
mechanical issues and rust on parts are not an issue.

Seller
They are aluminum and no the paint has no chips, scratches or rust whatsoever, please send me ur # for closeups

Me
Any chance I can see it round 2:30 today?

Seller
took it to scrap yard no one came for it

AD
This bike would be more of a project for someone to fix up, or flip. I just dont have the time to do so. Both tires are


flat but just need a little air. The chain has some surface rust but its not too bad. The bike needs a little bit of tinkering, soap and water, and some good ol tender love and care and it should be good as new. If intrested contact me and ill give you my address, and other info. (must be available for pickup)




Sad, very sad!

Get thee to the scrap yard.

That's just silly...why ask for $45 bucks and then just scrap it...seems it had some value. Only things I haul to the dump are bikes that I know I can't even get $5 for and that's after I pull $5 worth of parts off them.

That would have made a sweet fixie!

another CL Flake Fake seller

Or the S.O. said--- "Get that piece of junk bike out of here now!" And off to the dump it went.

I try not to ask questions that most sellers can't answer.
It wastes too much time.
I just go look at it and hope it's worth the trip.

+1 The best deals are usually from clueless sellers. Sometimes this means you waste gas, sometimes you score a deal.

As far as tossing the bike, I have a lot of neighbors like that. They are too lazy to even take decent stuff to the nearby thrift store (1 mile away). Come garbage pickup day, I regularly pick up items, take them straight to the local GW. My neighbors need to be taken to the local landfill. The recycle-able stuff in that landfill, along with the terrible smell, might just make them think twice about curbing good, reusable stuff. They talk about being green, then turn around and curb just about anything.

+5 Definitely the case in NJ. Yet the crap they try to sell at a garage sale is exactly that, crap. Who the hell wants vintage Xmas crap in July, used X Box/Playstation controls, a vcr player, vcr tapes, tschotskes from the 60's and 70's, used Hampton Bay ceiling fans, obsolete baby cribs and carseats, mini stereo stacks, handicap toilet seats, cordless house phones from the 80's, and homeowner grade power tools?

The best items I've picked up on trash day in NJ have included a Kennedy tool box, a Schwinn Traveler road bike, a wooden kiddie train set (might fetch $75 on fleabay), Rubbermaid wire shelving, large three way stereo speakers.

In Ann Arbor, for the most part, except for students, everything gets recycled. The local Salvation Army is like a Wallyworld. At the local recycler, the best purchase I made was a hinged mid-century Lane Boomerang table for $15 ($600 on ebay) and a Puch road bike. At the Habitat Restore I scored a brand new Thermador SS wok, 30,000 BTU for $300, $2400 at retail.

What students used to throw out prior to move out is legendary. But with the poor economy, a lot of it now ends up on craigslist.

They also look down their noses at the pickers.

We have an annual curb-side pickup and during they days preceding the area is full of old trucks cruising looking for deals. Anything metal is usually gone.

Our neighborhood doesn't have many bikes on the curb though. I've organized a couple of pickups for the local bike co-op. The town council offered an area near the community center to collect bikes for one week and we got about 80 bikes last time.

I'm shooting to do another before the next spring cleanup.

The throw-away society never fails to sicken me.

Gee I thought that was only happening in my area! I dont even think goodwill could sell most garage sale items. Same thing with a bunch of flea market vendors. Why they carry around the same old crap that they couldnt sell years ago is beyond my thinking. And then anything with a potential value they are trying to sell at or above the new price. Oh well thats their lot in life. Every once in a while after I get a bad reaction to a suggested selling price, they change their mind. I guess some reality makes its way through those mixed up neurons.

-SP

$50 for a nice bike like that? I has a sad