"My loss is your gain..." is my favorite. I think its almost now required in the bike or bike parts description for the seller to start crying with: "My loss is your gain."
And, if you've heard it once, you've heard the sad story 100 times: the sellers in a dire financial situation. He would keep this fine, fast, aero, all-world, famous bike because its so good, but he just can't. He would if he could, but he just can't anymore. Please come take advantage of his plight (meanwhile his bike price is way too high!). His loss is YOUR GAIN.
And if you buy it at his price, it's fixing to be A LOSS, YOU ARE FIXING TO HAVE!
2. "Ironman Ready Triathlon Bike" This is a good one, or just "Triathlon Bike," which, as for the bike itself, it most often happens is NOT AT ALL A TRIATHLON BIKE but instead a Road Bike with clip on aero bars on it.The seller figures some newbie won't worry about the standard triathlon frames. All you have to do on Ebay to call the bike, a "triathlon bike" is stick some aero bars on a road bike. It could be a Mongoose or Schwin Continental or Huffy Roadster, just add aero bars: it's a Triathlon Bike.
3. "WOW!" Love this one in the ITEM DESCRIPTION. WOW! The seller has a bike for sale and in the title he himself isn't ashamed to get excited about what a deal he is giving you in the title. "WOW!" or "WOW NO RESERVE" Turns out, its not a very good bike. "WOW!"
4. Then there's these two themes: "I've have X amount of dollars invested in this bike," and/or "retails for X." This is used to sometimes justify a high price. I always want to email them and tell them, well, go take it to your bike shop then, see what your LBS will give you for all of your investment in it for six years: what are you doing out here telling us about this?
The question is, what's it worth RIGHT NOW? Somebody will have an six year old QR Kilo, with 4,000 invested in it. Well, it's worth barely 600 bucks today, buddy. Sorry you did that but you get no points for what you put into it.
And, if you've heard it once, you've heard the sad story 100 times: the sellers in a dire financial situation. He would keep this fine, fast, aero, all-world, famous bike because its so good, but he just can't. He would if he could, but he just can't anymore. Please come take advantage of his plight (meanwhile his bike price is way too high!). His loss is YOUR GAIN.
And if you buy it at his price, it's fixing to be A LOSS, YOU ARE FIXING TO HAVE!
2. "Ironman Ready Triathlon Bike" This is a good one, or just "Triathlon Bike," which, as for the bike itself, it most often happens is NOT AT ALL A TRIATHLON BIKE but instead a Road Bike with clip on aero bars on it.The seller figures some newbie won't worry about the standard triathlon frames. All you have to do on Ebay to call the bike, a "triathlon bike" is stick some aero bars on a road bike. It could be a Mongoose or Schwin Continental or Huffy Roadster, just add aero bars: it's a Triathlon Bike.
3. "WOW!" Love this one in the ITEM DESCRIPTION. WOW! The seller has a bike for sale and in the title he himself isn't ashamed to get excited about what a deal he is giving you in the title. "WOW!" or "WOW NO RESERVE" Turns out, its not a very good bike. "WOW!"
4. Then there's these two themes: "I've have X amount of dollars invested in this bike," and/or "retails for X." This is used to sometimes justify a high price. I always want to email them and tell them, well, go take it to your bike shop then, see what your LBS will give you for all of your investment in it for six years: what are you doing out here telling us about this?
The question is, what's it worth RIGHT NOW? Somebody will have an six year old QR Kilo, with 4,000 invested in it. Well, it's worth barely 600 bucks today, buddy. Sorry you did that but you get no points for what you put into it.