Sell! Sell! Sell!!!

I love Craigslist.
Sure you have some degree of flakiness to deal with, but the ol' list has served me so well in the past month I have to sing it's praises...
On the other hand there is ePay, I mean eBay. Ah yes, I ran afoul with the ol' battleship recently. Being the impatient seller, when things didn't move immediately off Craigslist, I put them on eBay. Well eBay owns Paypal and in the case of things like my Kona and some easton Bars I was selling, the fees were getting ridiculous-especially Paypal fees. I thought it had to do with sellers using credit cards as it looked like I was being charged upto 4-5% on transactions in Paypal. Well, to combat it, I put a disclaimer in my eBay text that said "Paypal with your checking account ONLY. If you pay with a credit card, I will add 5% to the total price to cover the fees and hassle". No problem right? Wrong.
I was one day away from selling my Easton carbon bars, they had met reserve and all looked well. Then I got the emails from eBay. My auction was cancelled (eliminated). The reason? Sellers are unable/not allowed to add fees to the Paypal fees. A PC email outlining this led me to a page on eBay further explaining. Real Nice. Good ol' eBay did refund my listing fees, but now I was still holding handle bars I was required to sell by my sweet wife!
Hello Craigslist!
Posted the bars and sold them the next day, cash on the barrel head, not eBay fees and met another cool cyclist.

That leads me to the point of this ramble. I have sold a ton of shit to do 2 things:
1. Satisfy my patient wife's request that I sell bikes to cover the new Indy Fab Crown Jewel
2. Keep my trusty Kestrel at ALL costs

Oo as you can see below, I sold some sheet man! AND I have my Kestrel (Yee HA!). It will rise like a Phoenix as my new daily commuter-complete with flat bars and a new life. That is right Kirby-the Black Stallion rides on!

Check it-here's what has sold to date:

1-2004 Specialized Allez Frame, carbon fork, headset and seatpost (Not pictured); sold to a guy on Craigslist who expected a mint condition bike for $100! The thing has Foco tubing a Columbus Muscle all carbon fork and guess what? Scratches and nicks and some rust spots from being a daily commuter (if you know me-these were minimal, as I clean my bikes religiuously and take really good care of them). I had to wonder when he complained about the scratches AFTER he had the bike for a week. Guess I should have sold it for $10-what was I thinking!!

2-Kona A'Ha SS
3-Hawthorne Cruiser
4-Schwinn Cruiser
5-Nitto Moustache Bars
6-Shimano 600 levers
7-Easton Carbon Road Bars


My 1960's Hawthorne now lives in Emeryville

Kona went onto the great white north of Canada


Cari's 24" Vintage Schwinn is moving to SF


My Nitto moustache bars and Shimano 600 levers went to SF and New Hampshire


The Easton Carbon bars are toolin' around SF

I'll post pics of teh Indy Fab soon. Heading out this weekend with my wife and our friends to do a Valley ride. I have to say, I have about 100 miles on it so far and love it! Steel is nice.