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Well, had quite the evening yesterday.
A used Yeti sb5.5c came up on ebay. Good spec for the price and looked very well cared for. Already priced competitively I thought I'd try my luck.
Contacted seller asking if he'd deal outside eBay and he somehow managed to send his phone number through without eBay scrambling it.
Rang him, agreed a price and was going to do a big round trip to collect the next day (today). Then had a crazy thought whilst on the phone at 6:30pm... I could go now and still have my day off on Monday.
So I drove 4 hours from Nottingham to the south coast to his house near Eastbourne.... to inspect it and find what could be a crack. Can't risk it, so I jump back in the car and drive home.
8 hour round trip. £60 in fuel (that reminds me I need to pay datford charge) and no bike.
Moral of the story- be VERY careful buying used carbon bikes (and don't drive too far as that can happen).
4 hours sleep, now time to take my daughter to nursery and go out for a ride.
Gutted, really wanted that bike!
Good job for leaving it. I’ve got form for taking something I really shouldn’t because I really wanted it and came a really long way to get it.
I thought this was going to be a funny but life-affirming story about the difficulty of making polenta.
Several seconds wasted. Moral, unsure.
Of course, if you had dealt through eBay and found the crack uopn delivery, you would have been able to send it back and claim a refund.
But, in trying to be clever you've wasted all that time and money and got precisely nothing.
The moral of the story seems to be...don't try and be a clever dick.
Yeah been there before with motorcycles. Drove to Nottingham way for a Santa Cruz once, rode in the close, hated it, drove home.
Lol @Sarawak. Nice troll account.
Try proving to eBay you didn't crack it in the first ride.
Also it was collection only anyway.
Oh damn I've risen to your negativity. Have a nice day
By the way...it's palaver.
Enjoy your day off, once you've caught up on your sleep.
And don't forget to pay the toll charge.
Yeah bit harsh that Sarawak. I’m no good at waiting either and would have probably done the same thing for the right bike.
I drove 90 mins on a very stormy night to look at a frame of PinkBike ad. Floodwater everywhere probably would have made more sense to wait a few days! Lovely frame but I thought there was a crack in the frame as well. We couldn’t decide if it really was, so his plan was to clean the paint off and get back to me the next day.
He never did and sold it to someone else. I *so* nearly bought it that night. Glad I didn’t. Rather have a lost evening than a bust frame.
Blimey. So is the bike still on eBay and if so, with details of the crack?
easily fixed with a sticker ....was a thread on here how to do it
Nope removed off eBay.
Genuinely didn't realise it was there.
Felt for the guy, he was gutted as he had gone from having basically sold his bike to help fund a new SB150 to oh crap my frames cracked.
I'm being generous... it was cracked 99% sure.
I’m being generous… it was cracked 99% sure.
Of course it was, its a Yeti! 🤣
Surely that’s good news for him? If he is the original owner is it not a warranty job? All things considered with woeful stories of Yeti warranty?
Yeh he was the second owner.
I'm going back to the Evil Offering frame plan and pinching all the bits off my Solaris Max.
Anyone want a a Solaris max frame?
#stealthadvert
Mmmmmm.....pavlova
The universe is telling you that the Evil is the one for you.
OP, how tall are you? I know a couple of Ripmo frames going cheap but are size S.
Anyone want a a Solaris max frame?
#stealthadvert
Is it cracked? I'm not driving 4 hours to Nottingham to find out...
Transition1. Afraid not, I'm 5ft11
Hopefully the original owner should be able to get a new rear triangle under warranty.
I know people love to complain about about Yeti warranty on here, however when I had an issue with mine (bearings seized in rear sub frame and linkage) it was replaced no questions asked. Took 4 weeks from initial report to Tredz, to having the frame back in my hands.
I think it’s bonkers that people can spend thousands on a 2nd hand bike without inspecting it first. It’s worth the money in fuel to go and check it - yes you could post it back if it wasn’t right but you’ve got the hassle of waiting in for it to be delivered, the eBay dispute process, then the hassle of sending it back etc etc. It’s a faff even if the seller is helpful and refunds you without quibble but there is often problems....
Congratulations OP - this could so easily have ended up as YET ANOTHER ebay-returns-seller-dispute thread. Thanks for saving us from that 😉
And also genuinely well done for not throwing good money after bad. You'd have regretted it.
I thought you just sold a yeti?
I thought you were buying one bike to do.it all and save money and ride the savings all the way to part time?
Or have I confused you with someone else? If so, sorry!
Yeh so the Yeti went. Rode the Solaris and decided it wasn't gonna cut it as a do everything bike. So went to buy the new yeti (that was cracked), now ordered an evil.
I'll tell you the full story over Jaegerbombs fella (in joke folks sorry).
Moral of the story
That's quite an ironic phrase in this instance, considering you and the seller tried to defraud ebay.
Anyhow, it looks like the bike is back on ebay, with no mention of the crack....
Perhaps someone should call the police.
Its Eastbourne Police, they'll be too busy with drunks and the infamous Polegate Traffic light failure.
That's a username you'd trust without hesitation. Just off for a short drive!
What you need is a decent seller who will clean the frame up beforehand and admit it's cracked and give you an immediate refund (whilst cursing Banshee bikes under his breath).
Anyway about the SolarisMAX, what colour and how much?
It's in the classifieds on here matey.
£1200 full build or I'll do it as a frame with 170mm dropper and headset for £475.
Medium in the metalic black colour whatever it was called.
Excuse the photo in the classifieds, needs a clean before photoing really.