Help Me Decide - Buy or No Buy!

[Hutchysrs50]

ok.......

so iv won a bike for £1500, the bikes in london and im in newcastle.

the plan was to pay by paypal and get a courier to pick the bike up.

my mum said, whats stoping him takin the money and denyin anything about the bike?

i think there was somthing on tv about it, "if you cant shake there hand, you might not get the bike/car"


i said a friend of mine was just going to check you have the bike and its at the correct adress (i have no intention of this happening, but just wanted to check incase he said no for whatever reason)

but he is happy for "my friend" to view the bike to check its at the correct address and he's the correct owner.

i also got the full reg and i will check that, which he was also happy to give out.


just asking on here for piece of mind really, what you guys think?


oh also, i thought i would check because he has low feadback.
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[Hutchysrs50]

ahh ok.

i just checked the REG.

DVLA says: Date of First Registration - 12 06 2008


Listing says: Date of First Registration - 29 Jun 2008
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[KevTM]

Go shake his hand then I wouldn't buy a bike without seeing it.

[bacon]

hmm, assume you won it through ebay?

i only looked at bikes on various sites that i could at least take a train too so i could drive it home myself. Thats a fair old distance, do you have any friends in london that could actually go check the bike with you on the phone asking questions?

otherwise i dont know, he isnt going to let the bike go without money, but that means you have to trust the seller, unless you can muster up a london buddy to be there to put the bike into the courier and hand over cash at the same time

[Ste]

Get the train down to London then ride it home?

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[Pete.]

How come you didn't factor the cost of travelling down to London in the overall price of getting the bike? Seems a bit of a daft way to go about things.
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[r0b]

I take it you won this bike on ebay?

If it was me I think I would get the train down to london and ride the bike back. That way you can pay cash when you get your hands on your new bike

You are right to be cautious but honestly I dont think you should have bid if you have no way to get the bike -eg a mate down there.

I personally would not feel safe paypaling that kind of money, perhaps a nice bcfer will be your mate and check everything is ok with the bike im sure someone on here is from round there

good luck
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[garyd]

To be fair its folk like you that screw ebay up ,if you dont know if you want it you shouldnt have bid,go get down there and pay the man ,and next time there is any mention of people messing about on ebay ,remember they are talking about you.Whether you want it or not you won it ,and as has already been said you should have thought of the costs involved before bidding
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[Ste]

No reason for the seller to be bothered about you collecting it by courier, makes it easier for him if there's anything dodgy about it as you'll have already paid by the time you get to see the bike.

Get the train down one morning then ride it back, you'd have loads of time. Much less risk than paying by Paypal and having the bike collected by courier.

Have you got your full license?

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