The deteriorating classifieds culture

[Hairy]

9 hours ago, Bro Derek said:

There is some irony or perspective to be gained here.....

The Forum users feel they have a right or are responsible for controlling/policing/judging the classifieds while 95% of those that use the classifieds don't even know or couldn't care that the Forums even exist.

Much like a lot of the complaints about advertisers overvaluing their goods, it is pretty clear that a vast majority of forum users overvalue their opinion.

 

You missed the earlier years where really misleading adds were called out before newer riders made the mistake of purchasing these items.

There is a wealth of knowledge and experience to be found with some of the older members, as to as I am sure can be found with some of the newer ones.

[Hairy]

8 hours ago, ACE Cycles said:

ACE Cycles is a one-man operation, founded, owned, and managed by me, Emmanuel Sequeira

I also established the ACE Cycling Club and served as its Chairman for several years.

Please note that the online forum should not be confused with the real-world cycling community.

Not really.

I am willing to bet that the vast number of users on the platform are real world cyclists.

Not in a condescending way, well done and congratulations on setting up the Cycling club.

I did a search for the club, and all links take it back to your online sales profile as the base platform. So the club is a means to advertise your business?

[Hairy]

ADMIN

Can one add a section on the splash page where you set up an advert that allows you to select "Not for sale to resellers"?

[MORNE1102]

My 2c. Stop advertising your 2016 Sworks Venge for 65k.
Stop asking more then retail for imported Merlin Sram ASX shifters and stop crying over the poor fool making you a realistic offer on your bloated “USED” crap. 
 

i’m taking the piss big-time however my very crude honest opinion is, we over value second hand goods. Its created by this stupidly expensive industry in general. Over time i believe things will kinda get back to normal. 

[Shebeen]

4 minutes ago, MORNE1102 said:

My 2c. Stop advertising your 2016 Sworks Venge for 65k.
Stop asking more then retail for imported Merlin Sram ASX shifters and stop crying over the poor fool making you a realistic offer on your bloated “USED” crap. 
 

i’m taking the piss big-time however my very crude honest opinion is, we over value second hand goods. Its created by this stupidly expensive industry in general. Over time i believe things will kinda get back to normal. 

Bikemarket will make an offer of R15k on that Venge to balance the universe out. Limited time, one time only! They will also pay CASH.

[Hairy]

15 minutes ago, Shebeen said:

Bikemarket will make an offer of R15k on that Venge to balance the universe out. Limited time, one time only! They will also pay CASH.

My personal exprience is that it would be WeBuyBicycles that would make you a rediculous offer, and then also apply a stipulation noting that "The offer is valid for 3 working days"

Eventually sold the bike to a user on the site who came across as a good person and we both walked away happy. 

[MORNE1102]

20 minutes ago, Shebeen said:

Bikemarket will make an offer of R15k on that Venge to balance the universe out. Limited time, one time only! They will also pay CASH.

lol I always reply back to old James tuning him to catch a wake up 

[Hairy]

1 minute ago, MORNE1102 said:

lol I always reply back to old James tuning him to catch a wake up 

Ok, WeBuyBicycles was also a "James"

[ACE Cycles]

4 hours ago, Hairy said:

Not really.

I am willing to bet that the vast number of users on the platform are real world cyclists.

Not in a condescending way, well done and congratulations on setting up the Cycling club.

I did a search for the club, and all links take it back to your online sales profile as the base platform. So the club is a means to advertise your business?

It was a natural progression. With the shop came the community and with the community came a club

I wouldn't recommend starting a cycling club as a means to advertise, its way too much time and sacrifice 

I did it because I loved it

[MORNE]

6 hours ago, ChrisF said:

 

Are you still on crutches ?  

Only emotional ones🤪…

in seriousness though, judging by how rehab is going…it will be a few months before i can get on a bike again.

i thought it was obvious that I have more time to be praating more k@k on here recently? It’s the FOMO you see…

Using my own track record, periods of non riding due to injury goes like this:

1. increased forum activity to compensate for the lack of bicycle related social interaction.

2. building / buying a new bike / bike stuff because i have too much time to justify N+1 in my head.

im trying really hard not to buy more bike stuff this time. I already failed to some extent, but buying niche, expensive, bike specific tools mean i can tell myself i’ll save money in 10 years time by not having to take it to a LBS. But no, I also enjoy working on my bikes…so I see it as an investment in myself.

see how I justified it? Im sn expert👀

[RobertWhitehead]

16 hours ago, Mike Dewing said:

Outrageous ads get linked and called out in the forum section all the time anyways.?!🤷🏼‍♂️🤣 I guess it’s just for the LoLs then..

 

Something like this: https://bikehub.co.za/classifieds/item/hardtail-mountain-bike-frames/600965/titanium-mtb-frame-fork

Saw this ad for the first time pre-COVID and the price has remained the same since the first time it was listed 

[NotSoBigBen]

2 hours ago, MORNE said:

Only emotional ones🤪…

in seriousness though, judging by how rehab is going…it will be a few months before i can get on a bike again.

i thought it was obvious that I have more time to be praating more k@k on here recently? It’s the FOMO you see…

Using my own track record, periods of non riding due to injury goes like this:

1. increased forum activity to compensate for the lack of bicycle related social interaction.

2. building / buying a new bike / bike stuff because i have too much time to justify N+1 in my head.

im trying really hard not to buy more bike stuff this time. I already failed to some extent, but buying niche, expensive, bike specific tools mean i can tell myself i’ll save money in 10 years time by not having to take it to a LBS. But no, I also enjoy working on my bikes…so I see it as an investment in myself.

see how I justified it? Im sn expert👀

I go through the same but add ...

 

3. Stripping bikes and having them painted despite there being nothing wrong with the current design or aesthetics 

[Barry]

8 hours ago, Hairy said:

ADMIN

Can one add a section on the splash page where you set up an advert that allows you to select "Not for sale to resellers"?

For that to work properly it would require admin to convert several users to dealer accounts. And admin is clearly not interested in doing that. Past reports ignored. 

[Mike Dewing]

1 hour ago, RobertWhitehead said:

Something like this: https://bikehub.co.za/classifieds/item/hardtail-mountain-bike-frames/600965/titanium-mtb-frame-fork

Saw this ad for the first time pre-COVID and the price has remained the same since the first time it was listed 

Who knew the front wheel and tire was a “plus” 🤔🤦‍♂️🤣🤣

[mikkelz]

3 hours ago, RobertWhitehead said:

Something like this: https://bikehub.co.za/classifieds/item/hardtail-mountain-bike-frames/600965/titanium-mtb-frame-fork

Saw this ad for the first time pre-COVID and the price has remained the same since the first time it was listed 

Is the crate included? Asking for a friend. 😜

[El Duderino]

3 hours ago, RobertWhitehead said:

Something like this: https://bikehub.co.za/classifieds/item/hardtail-mountain-bike-frames/600965/titanium-mtb-frame-fork

Saw this ad for the first time pre-COVID and the price has remained the same since the first time it was listed 

Dude! It's Titanium.