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Scott Super Evolution
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What is it with people being incapable of including a full drive side photo in a listing? Is this a thing now? Have I missed a meeting where people were told to make sure they include as many pointless photos of the non-drive side of a bike as possible, but completely avoid showing the business bit of the bike? ******* monkeys!
Shh, Mark. Step away from the keyboard and go lie down in a safe place. Think happy thoughts. Just happy thoughts....
Shh, Mark. Step away from the keyboard and go lie down in a safe place. Think happy thoughts. Just happy thoughts....
incorrigible
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Oh Mark-ee! Psst! Wakey wakey! nudge nudge. I brought you a nice warm cup of whiskey and thorazine with just a splash of horse tranquilizer and a handful of ecstasy tablets to help you feel better...........and a nice, warm blankie.......
I feel ya, bro. I hear what you're sayin'. I smell what your cookin' and it riles me as well.
Measurements are my pet peeve. I think most RBers understand the need to know seat-tube length c-c or c-t, but it galls me when the rest of the world will reply to an inquiry with "oh, it's about a medium I think". They're the same folks who have never operated a tape measure in their lives and who couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel.
eBayers are the worst, although perhaps they're so wrapped up in their hobby that they assume everybody has a lot of experience with what they're selling and therefore wouldn't ever ask about dimensions. Whenever I sell ANYthing on eBay, I place a 12-inch ruler next to it in 2 separate photos, one for length, and the other for width, which preempts any questions and relieves me of having to state dimensions in the item's description.
Another one of my hobbies is scale model cars, which are made in many different scales (1/43, 1/32, 1/25, 1/24, 1/16, 1/12, 1/8, to name the most common scales), and I want to howl at the moon and kick something when a seller either mis-identifies the item's scale (sometimes even when the scale is printed right on the item's box) or states "oh, it's about a <insert incorrect scale here>". Even just an actual measurement (i.e., "it's 8 and 3/4 inches long" vice "oh, it's about a foot long"), coupled with a quick internet search for the length of the actual full-size car and some 3rd grade mathematics will enable me to determine the correct scale.
Hey there, Mr. eBay Seller! I've got a wild, wacky, madcap, zany, crazy, devil-may-care, unconventional, never-before-thought-of idea! How about you drag your sorry, lazy ass off to the kitchen, blow the dust off the tape measure, and ACTUALLY CARE ENOUGH to take 2 FRICKIN' SECONDS out of your PRECIOUS BUSY DAY, Mr. I'm-a-Senator-and-my-time-is-important, to ACTUALLY MEASURE whatever it is you're peddling, OTHERWISE, if you just CANNOT be bothered to stoop SO LOW as to pander to what you obviously perceive to be the insignificant inquiries of the general public like myself (i.e, the common folk, the peasantry, the proletariat, the hoi polloi, the unwashed and not so nearly well-educated as yourself and who weren't born with a silver spoon in their arse and who woudn't know a salad fork from a pitchfork, i.e., the BUYER - that person who is not only a very basic element of ANY and in fact EVERY transaction EVER executed at ANY time in mankind's entire history involving the exchange of goods and services ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, but who in fact represents a FULL HALF of the buyer-seller relationship, and without whom your item for sale will NEVER sell), well.......umm..........maybe I just don't want it then. HA-RUMPH!
Um........Say, Mark...........uhh.............I might need a few of those tabs of ecstasy back...............yeah................and while I'm here, where's your liquor cabinet? Ya got another blankie you're not using?
Sundayjumper
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Conversely, some sellers go the other way, and give you everything. I once asked what size a tandem was and got this in return:
Bless
Bless
Sundayjumper
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And the Scott is pretty cool. I like it.
