The 'Ebay and market watch' made my day thread

This is not meant to be an antidote to the other thread, more a cheery, happy thread full of pictures and great stories to show how good-a thing ebay watch is, beyond just paying for this site.

Post up any pictures of parts and bike that you got, or got to complete solely because of ebay watch (and steer away from making this a debate thread as that is being done elsewhere), I'm sure we all have at least one thing?

Maybe even a possible 'special' BOTM theme, Mods?

My class find was my Bradbury Manitou that I got for the princely sum of £150. Had been flagged up by a couple of members (thank you) but no one wanted to take on the challenge!

Started off like this:



ended up like this:



I'll also add to that that I scored most of a campag groupset thanks to 'Shop Watch'

Dang.... I would have totally loved to have bought that !!!!

good idea for a thread...you know how people like to brag about there ebay deals when they can get them...I have a few to add.

no pic at the mo but when i got my aluminium O frame off scant i thought what fork should i put in it, then after i did the original build with what i had lying around someone then posted a link to the exact matching fork!!! i was chuffed as nuts! then i was even more chuffed when i won the item for £16!

both being painted at bob jackson now, with a more original-ish build when it returns.

thank you to whoever posted that link!

was thinking of a thread like this myself, ebay is a love hate thing with me not that i buy off there alot though, i prefer buying new from shops or on here, i think there is less chance of stitch ups etc.

Ok then...

I bought a DB Apex for six quid, someone on here posted a link to it a while back

Got the seized seatpost out in no time,eventually handed it on to a student who had his bike nicked

Thanks to 'ebay and marketplace watch' I found and bought this for £362, which started a great project, which led to me meeting one of my favourite pro's from BITD, to seeing him ride it again in his old colours and to me having a great bike in my collection.

Thank you 'ebay and marketplace watch'.

sinnett177":1kto2rhh said:

Thank you 'ebay and marketplace watch'.

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This bike was half the reason I started this thread! Beautiful in everyway and a superb story to boot. Ebay watch gold!

I bought this for £17



Was in a real sorry state when i picked it up, Now its just in a sorry state

But I think the best thing i got from the watch was these



Just got to find a bike good enough for them now !

For once I'd been busy in work all day, got home, had a quick look online.. holy sh,t!
I could tell right away it was 1 of the rarer merlin built raleigh tomacs by the dropouts. I already had a litespeed build raleigh tomac replica under way, but I couldnt pass it up the chance of an original!.
As I found out later I was pretty late to the party; as unbeknown to me at the time other VRC members were already in negotiations, but as 1 of 6 of Tomacs personal bikes I couldnt pass it up, rang the guy up, sorted the deal with massive help & thanks to wes & jeff at firstflightbike, chrs again guys
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t ... +litespeed

I've been relishing the build, tweaking & polishing to the Nth degree.
This is how it looked when I picked it up:


I really need to take some new pics as its evolved a lot, but this is still the most updated pic I have:


& this is what I'm working towards:



so, yup, thanks to auction watch I picked up my unicorn, my holy grail