Worst e-bay experience to date! Bike sold at £78, winner transferred funds with PayPal, all good so far. Then while I'm out on a nice ride, I get a call from the winner, (who sounded a bit peeved that I wasn't at home for him to collect immediately - when I said I'm on a ride, he came back "oh you're joking"!). Alarm bells started ringing, anyway I arranged to cut my ride short so he could collect at 2, and I have him my address.
At a quarter to, I get another call from the winner - says he's having trouble finding the house. "Ok, where are you?"
"At the train station"
Odd, I thought, there's no train station near me. I live in the new forest near Fordingbridge. Turns out he bought himself a one way ticket to Salisbury and that was that. Then he asks me to bring the bike out to him while he waits at the station! Bike was advertised as collect only. I did consider doing this, but while I was putting my bike away and getting ready, I got another call from him hassling me and telling me he's still waiting! At this point I cancelled, refunded the money and told him sorry but I don't want to spend another hour and a bit running around and wrecking the rest of the days plans as well. He said thanks for messing him around and we ended the call!
Anyway, bikes going back on
ebay tonight, but if anyone here wants it for a reasonable offer and is ok to collect, please pm me and save me another flaky buyer experience!