Can You Trust Second-Hand Bike Sellers

[SFW]

Hi

A friend of mine recently crashed her bike and had to claim from insurance because there’s a hole in the carbon frame. The issue is that the seller had advertised the bike as “not ridden,” which is simply not true.

This bike has done 6 Cape Town Cycle Tours 2 DC`s and averages around 200 km every week, along with additional use from running training. When this was reported on Facebook, the ad was taken down.

Situations like this make it really difficult to trust resellers on these platforms—especially those who don’t know the full history of the bike or choose to misrepresent it just to make a sale.

If the ad is still up i would want the mods to approach the reseller 

 

[ct_rider]

What bike was advertised and misrepresented?

[Luqies]

Your logic on not trusting resellers applies to all industries. You making it seem like it’s a bike reseller issue only
 

It’s an integrity issue. That’s about it. 

[SFW]

17 minutes ago, ct_rider said:

What bike was advertised and misrepresented?

previous owner posted it after mine.

 

[Shebeen]

I'm a little confused, a second thread on it is lank helpful too....is @SoloCyclist the original owner, who crashed it and insurance took it off him (only to put it back into circulation)?

[Bro Derek]

42 minutes ago, Shebeen said:

I'm a little confused, a second thread on it is lank helpful too....is @SoloCyclist the original owner, who crashed it and insurance took it off him (only to put it back into circulation)?

Him or Her?

 

[cadenceblur]

Was sold by a trader 

I see the ad has since been removed 

[SoloCyclist]

2 hours ago, Shebeen said:

I'm a little confused, a second thread on it is lank helpful too....is @SoloCyclist the original owner, who crashed it and insurance took it off him (only to put it back into circulation)?

The bicycle belonged to my wife she damaged the frame at the Cape Town Cycle Tour, insurance said they not repairing the frame and wrote it off

I then had to hand it over to The Salvage Company on behalf of the insurance (Once they settle you the item becomes theirs) it was then sent to Pretoria. I was watching the forums and ads since as I had a feeling it would pop up for sale and I saw it on Facebook today and Bikehub

The thing is im not annoyed at the sale i mean salvage items are recirculated all the time I was annoyed at the lies about the item and it was still broken the hole was still in the photos. Imagine you bought the item from Gauteng and had it shipped only to arrive damaged so that was why I flagged the item

[Michael S]

@SoloCyclist, the  seller was @Mo79 who can hopefully clear up some stuff here as his ratings are great.

Edited 3 hours ago by Michael S

[IceCreamMan]

Looking forward to this response. 

[Headshot]

The same Mo79 who did this

 

 

[SFW]

does Mo even bike