Originally Posted by bkaapcke

"There's a $20.00 beef here. Seller says $20 is reasonable for a new spoke and buyer wants $40 for spoke and truing. Think about how this is going to sound in a EBay/Paypal appeals process, being decided by people who aren't bicyclists. You want to "tag" the buyer because he "missed" the spoke problem when he picked up the bike. Well, YOU MISSED IT TOO, and you owned the bike. It's just not going to play out well, because the deciders would want a truing too. So, give him the money. bk