Zinn from ebay with issue's, but hey, still sweet!

[Coleman]

Scene hype in full effect :roll:

The eBay user shilling it up is the same person who retracted the £1,470 bid on the last one :!:

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=190787339874

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=250841329671

Not always shill bidding

I'm sure I'm not the only one when trying to find out what the other bidders max is along the way to wack in a silly bid to retract it later after finding out what the highest bid is

Nice bit of detective work there!

I've never understood why eBay allows bid retractions on auctions - can you imagine the above strategy being allowed on bargain hunt!!

If someone is stupid enough to bid more than they have or 'accidentally' enter the wrong amount then the auction should be cancelled and the idiot bidder should be charged all listing costs and the lost revenue to eBay.

That would remove a load of underhand tactics and nob-heads from eBay.

 

[sinnerman]

PMSL

I love this place its better than the X-files....

I do LOVE Conspiracy Theorists.

How could any of you possibly know what goes on behind closed doors, or the mind of someone IN THE CHAIR....!!!

Why dont all the plonkers with therories, put there hands in there pockets man up, place a bid and see what happens.

Separate the MEN FROM THE BOYS, (so too speak), you Never know you... might end up buying the thing.... :roll:

 

[sinnerman]

Scene hype in full effect :roll:

And to comment further on this Ridiculous statement.....

I challenge you to find me ONE other British STEEL bike built in 1990 when this bike was debuted, that has the features Which set this bike apart.

Mini Fillet Brazed. Segmented Fork, the then NEW 753 tubeset and the use of gussets and Rollers and very well thought out Geometry, the Matching stem and Bar(width)......but to name a few.

For a British Company at the time this was certainly NOT the norm.

 

[merckx]

Scene hype in full effect :roll:

:roll:

Say that after you ride one.... :roll:

This is how the one in your ebay links turned out.....

I rest my Case.... :roll:

looks kinda small / cramped for you?

 

[sinnerman]

Scene hype in full effect :roll:

:roll:

Say that after you ride one.... :roll:

This is how the one in your ebay links turned out.....

I rest my Case.... :roll:

looks kinda small / cramped for you?

It certainly does in that cropped picture...

 

[drcarlos]

Looking at the bidding there (on sinnermans bike) it points to the buyer who bid high on the last one being genuine, being shilled themselves by another bidder who is no longer a member and then refusing to pay the shilled price (and rightly so). I would imagine they will go to some lengths to buy this one but seem to be quite street smart.
As for Zinns, interesting bikes with some good ideas but I couldn't see myself paying that much for one unless I won the lottery.

Carl.

 

[NeilM]

It's nice to see British bikes attracting the sort of value that they should command.

Not that I can afford it.

One day

 

[dazzawazza]

Looks like this one will go high.
It deserves a good clean-up and NOS Record O.R..

 

[lrh]

I made no comments on the merits of the bike itself but I still got a multi-post lecture that proved my point

As others have stated, eBay prices are about how bad people want something and little to do with actual "value". Clearly for some it's a c*ck-measuring contest and all about how much you spend... and then it's not enough to have something nice, they've got to pimp it around the site like Max Clifford on crack :shock:

BTW I'm not trying to dampen things down to bid myself, anything this popular is a major turn-off to me, not to mention it's massively too small.

As an aside, an equally rare Claud Butler or Dawes with almost identical 653 tubeset wouldn't attract a tenth of the hype or price...

 

[BoyBurning]

it's not enough to have something nice, they've got to pimp it around the site...

And I very rarely use emoticons...