How dodgy is this on ebay?

ninetubes

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Specialized-S-Wor ... 240%3A1318

Hmmmm... 21 wide eyed bidders..

robmanic1

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:

Graydawg

LMAO!!!!



You canny polish a t.urd....regardless if its had a respray.... :shock:

stumpyjon

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.

AndyOgy

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

"The frame is light weight alloy" lol

turpinr

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

That's awful, it really is!

Putting that on my watch list

ninetubes

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

Although it might be worth it for that Mavic rim that has inexplicably wriggled between those elastomer forks..

topsey_turvey

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!

Th3 Firestarter

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

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

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.

birchy

looks a bit like a sarascum to me could be wrong though

littleandy0410

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!

smashford

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

The scary thing about that pseudo Specialized is that people are actually bidding on it!

rhysduk

Truly hilarious.... And yet Ebay put a ban on knives and not this kind of crap? :?
Rhys

strodey

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!

nuff said

:P

Mrs Toast

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

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)

Well on the basis of this particular S-Works, they have a point.

passout

Class. People will buy anything on E-bay if it's seen to be a 'bargain'.

llamafarmer

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...

soy_sauce

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)

rhext

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

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?"

ThanksBye

did u pay the extra?

myopic

latest bid is over £110...

Mattmanic

I just sent the seller a 1000 character 'question' about it. I probably shouldn't be allowed to read threads like this...

Rindle

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