'Too good to be true' bike deal
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@George-K said in 'Too good to be true' bike deal:
Nope. I'd never meet someone in my home for a sale. The closest I've come is the lobby of my condominium.
I once bought a used sax from somebody on Craig's List - I had to go into his house because I had to try it out, but I could sense he was getting increasingly nervous about it as we were texting. I don't think I'd do that - I'd managed to find him online as he was a regular poster to a forum like this one, so I wasn't too worried. Once he saw me in all my glory, it was all ok of course.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes your menacing presence would make anyone nervous. Brrr.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@George-K said in ['Too good to be true' bike deal]
Nope. I'd never meet someone in my home for a sale. The closest I've come is the lobby of my condominium.
Why? I've both sold and purchased probably hundreds of things from the door of my home or from the door of other people's home. I've also very frequently entered other people's home, or let people enter my home. Never has anyone proposed we meet somewhere else, and of course I wouldn't either. Why the hysteria? Creeps are actually pretty rare. Most people are just normal people. And even if you'd meet a creep, chances are very low that anything bad could happen. It's not good for a society if everybody is scared to death from everyone else.
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@Mik said in 'Too good to be true' bike deal:
@Doctor-Phibes your menacing presence would make anyone nervous. Brrr.
When I arrived I told him I’d come to look at his horn, then the police arrived and, well, I will spare you the details.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes not to mention you’d come to blow it.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Mik said in 'Too good to be true' bike deal:
@Doctor-Phibes not to mention you’d come to blow it.
"Horn."
Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.
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Worked out great! Met the guy at his house. He bought the bike during COVID to ride with his boys, and the boys weren’t interested in biking anymore.
He gave me a bunch of extra tools and threw in his $85 bike lock.
He had the original manual and all.
Funny enough my son getting his first real bike prompted me to buy this.
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@xenon said in 'Too good to be true' bike deal:
Worked out great! Met the guy at his house. He bought the bike during COVID to ride with his boys, and the boys weren’t interested in biking anymore.
He gave me a bunch of extra tools and threw in his $85 bike lock.
He had the original manual and all.
Funny enough my son getting his first real bike prompted me to buy this.
