Cannondale fan/geeks needed for Ebay Weirdo {or other bike heads please wade in]

[Rebikecumbria]

But you forget that sellers also lie. (Not saying you have) about the size of damage.

Walk yourself in your head through the process if you find apparent damage on a newly purchased frame as a buyer. Also one which is slightly “off”

You notice the crease (not knowing its factory) …. He fires up his laptop and reads the advert and looks at pics again. You mention the seatstay damage but no pics of that area. He also now starts thinking the chainstay clearance is also an issue too.

He then sends the initial message which you reply with no actual physical proof of what you claim. EBay will side with him if that initial message isn’t convincing enough if you are a business.

You need to lay it out clearly that those items are factory clearance and include pics of others. Then highlight that you were referring to a different area of damage which just happens to be on the seatstay too which has created the confusion.

i can see what your saying but we did include pics of the very slight ding in the original ad' even tho it was very hard to get the right angle to show it we managed

it was clearly expressed in the advert as well

he also sent us an offer and we reduced it quite a lot which had nothing to do with the slight ding jsut it had been sat around for a while and manager was in a good mood that day

good point tho should have sent pictures of same year r700s as a reference

 

[d8mok]

I’d also add that you are better just accepting a return and selling it again. It’ll cost return postage but life’s short and he’ll win no doubt.

I sell around 30 items a day on eBay and you lose 99% of the time as a seller so it’s best to just get the item back and sell again. Plus if you do this and it comes back damaged you can deduct upto 50% and eBay makes up the difference (assuming power seller)

 

[Rebikecumbria]

There’s no reasoning with people like this, I’m just going to say. And how can he polish the frame and not notice a dent in the chainstay that HE thinks is unusual?(not saying it is, it’s seems perfectly normal to me)

This is definitely a thing going on on ebay, I’ve heard another story like this before not long ago. Praise message, seller responding, buyer angry because of some damage that was caused by him or just some factory dent, gets ebay involved and has himself a refund.

ahaha yeh i have a feeling the wife went mental at him over his sunday evening dinner for buying shiny things and decidided to make up some cock n bull to get rid of it

just all seems strange tho as he has a nice frame and looks good with his wheels he has

surely someone buying such a frame would know what a frame looks like

but then again hes bought snorky on one bars for it and other random parts for his strange "biblical" build

prob the first ever tt frame with snorkys on

 

[Rebikecumbria]

Ah yes @PercyInglesFlyingCircus


Or does he work with you?

thats me ahaha just my percy account so i dont get confused with bits n bobs

 

[Rebikecumbria]

What’s the buyers feedback?

seems ok but havnt delved into it

 

[warrior4life]

He's clueless. I've had people like this recently, a ridiculous amount who win an auction and then don't pay and it's pointless going through eBay to sort it.
As a Cannondale guy your frame is exactly as described. If the buyer buys any alloy frame he's likely to find areas that are flat for one reason or another. I'd guess he's new to cycling and jumping on the retro thing as it can be quite cool. You should direct him to this forum, (but delete or edit some of the first posts). Good luck with everything.
I'd be tempted with the frame myself if it comes back.

 

[Imlach]

Yes, chain clearance crimping. I looked at the photos on your original listing and it looks perfectly normal, the angle he's taken all the photos from makes it look like a mangled mess. Is he also suggesting that the indent from where the stays where crimped near the BB is a massive dent as well? I fear fellas been eating the autosol.

 

[Imlach]

BTW for tiny dents I find that taking the photo at an angle, side of the dent, makes it a bit easier to see. I noticed it was very hard to photograph on the listing.

 

[Rebikecumbria]

Yes, chain clearance crimping. I looked at the photos on your original listing and it looks perfectly normal, the angle he's taken all the photos from makes it look like a mangled mess. Is he also suggesting that the indent from where the stays where crimped near the BB is a massive dent as well? I fear fellas been eating the autosol.

yeh the 4"s of damage hes referring to is the crimping to stop your chainrings eating the frame ... total madness ahaha
i ll have whatever hes drinking but only after 10pm on a friday when the lass is out

 

[Imlach]

yeh the 4"s of damage hes referring to is the crimping to stop your chainrings eating the frame ... total madness ahaha
i ll have whatever hes drinking but only after 10pm on a friday when the lass is out

If that's 4 inches anyway I'm pretty happy. I may finally be well endowed.