How dodgy is this on ebay?

ninetubes
ninetubes Posts: 11
edited March 2009 in MTB general
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  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    Oh dear, someone's going to buy a re-badged clunker, pass me the extra-long barge-pole!

    Nice welding on the frame though :shock:
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  • Graydawg
    Graydawg Posts: 673
    LMAO!!!!

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    You canny polish a t.urd....regardless if its had a respray.... :shock:
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  • stumpyjon
    stumpyjon Posts: 3,983
    Thing is any one who knows what a specialised S-works level bike is knows this is not a spesh s-works bike. It won't mean anything to anyone who doesn't know what an s-works is.

    Still, it's pretty out of order, the disclaimer about people having emailed the seller and not being sure what the bike is isn't very fair and to say the components are good but then say you know nothing about bikes is also a cop out.

    Good reason not to buy bikes on Ebay unless you know what you're doing.
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  • AndyOgy
    AndyOgy Posts: 579
    All this money I've wasted on new bikes, when all I needed to do was decide what bike I wanted and then put that bikes stickers on the old one.

    Lesson learned eh.
  • UncleMonty
    UncleMonty Posts: 385
    "The frame is light weight alloy" lol
  • turpinr
    turpinr Posts: 255
    AndyOgy wrote:
    All this money I've wasted on new bikes, when all I needed to do was decide what bike I wanted and then put that bikes stickers on the old one.

    Lesson learned eh.

    which stickers would you get and would you get them off e-bay ??
  • llamafarmer
    llamafarmer Posts: 1,848
    That's awful, it really is!

    Putting that on my watch list :lol:
  • ninetubes
    ninetubes Posts: 11
    Anyone recognise what it is, so we can enrich the seller's knowledge of bikes? (And of course so he can adjust the listing before the bidding becomes even more frenzied)
  • ninetubes
    ninetubes Posts: 11
    Although it might be worth it for that Mavic rim that has inexplicably wriggled between those elastomer forks..
  • I think the only things on that bike that might be genuine Specialized parts are the stickers, and I'm not even certain about those!
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  • I sent the seller a message saying that it's not an s-works, rather a cheapo £89 bike from halfrauds with s-works stickers.
  • rhext
    rhext Posts: 1,639
    UncleMonty wrote:
    "The frame is light weight alloy" lol

    Now, be fair. The frame may well be light weight alloy. It's just there's such a lot of it ;-)
  • Mattmanic
    Mattmanic Posts: 234
    I recon they just found a frame, stuck the cheapest of cheap components they could get, coupled with what they had lieing around and put some S-Works stickers on it.
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  • birchy
    birchy Posts: 309
    edited March 2009
    looks a bit like a sarascum to me could be wrong though
  • It can't be that bad though, it's got full suspention discs!

    I like the V-brake levers connected to the disc brakes too!
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  • smashford
    smashford Posts: 74
    do i get the impression then that it wouldn't b worth swapping my tomac for it then, i mean they do say it rides nice and has good componetry. shame the pics dont match the discription
  • Raymondavalon
    Raymondavalon Posts: 5,346
    The scary thing about that pseudo Specialized is that people are actually bidding on it!
  • rhysduk
    rhysduk Posts: 138
    Truly hilarious.... And yet Ebay put a ban on knives and not this kind of crap? :?
    Rhys
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  • strodey
    strodey Posts: 481
    look on the bright side;

    One less S Works will be stolen in Barnsley as the dumb ass chav will think they've got a bargain! :lol:

    nuff said

    :P
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  • Mrs Toast
    Mrs Toast Posts: 636
    These are very well made bikes and are fairly expensive so grab a bargain
    Apparently S-works bikes are a few thousand pounds new. I don't understand this as it is only a bike that you have to pedal after all but everyone to there own (maybe they go a few MPH faster than a normal bike which maybe makes them worth every penny? not)

    /facepalm

    I don't know what's worse - their deception, their inability to get their story straight...or the lack of basic literacy. :(
  • llamafarmer
    llamafarmer Posts: 1,848
    Apparently S-works bikes are a few thousand pounds new. I don't understand this as it is only a bike that you have to pedal after all but everyone to there own (maybe they go a few MPH faster than a normal bike which maybe makes them worth every penny? not)

    :lol: Well on the basis of this particular S-Works, they have a point.
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Class. People will buy anything on E-bay if it's seen to be a 'bargain'.
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  • llamafarmer
    llamafarmer Posts: 1,848
    A number of people have said this is not a specialized S-works so I thought I would let everyone know. One person has said that they think it is a Scott but knowone seems to know for definite. So the bike is sold as is it is still a very good bike and will make someone a decent bike for many more years.

    Yeah it's probably a Scott... Yeah last year's Genius I reckon...




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  • soy_sauce
    soy_sauce Posts: 987
    A number of people have said this is not a specialized S-works so I thought I would let everyone know. One person has said that they think it is a Scott but knowone seems to know for definite. So the bike is sold as is it is still a very good bike and will make someone a decent bike for many more years.

    what it mean is that since no one know for definite, he/she is not going to change the stickers on the bike and just sold it as it is (with the Specilized stickers) :lol:
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  • rhext
    rhext Posts: 1,639
    You could see it working in a restaurant couldn't you. 'No-one can tell me what sort of meat this is, so I'm going to carry on calling it fillet steak and let the diners decide whether or not they should buy it'.
  • soy_sauce
    soy_sauce Posts: 987
    this remind me when i went to china few year ago, we were looking for some cheap DVD player and just before we pay for it the guy asked us "what brand would you want?" we replied "oh, can we have a Sony one, please?" then he take out a Sony logo sticker/patch and glue it on the front of the DVD player then said to us "extra $20, please?" :lol:
    "It is not impossible, its just improbable"

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  • ThanksBye
    ThanksBye Posts: 519
    did u pay the extra?
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  • myopic
    myopic Posts: 692
    latest bid is over £110...
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  • Mattmanic
    Mattmanic Posts: 234
    I just sent the seller a 1000 character 'question' about it. I probably shouldn't be allowed to read threads like this...
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  • Rindle
    Rindle Posts: 219
    Ah but the stickers are the most important part of a bike for a lot of people. I remember a lot of Merlin cross country frames getting rebadged as azonics a few years ago.

    Anyway I might bid! Its way better than my bikeas its got gears, suspension and even a front brake! And its alloy mines only made out of steel :(