Originally Posted by
burnthesheep
The best way to combat this to report "vendors" or "individuals" who are clearly violating terms of service for your local "craigslist" or "gumtree". If someone is peddling a ton of stuff that clearly wasn't originally theirs and isn't listed as a "vendor", ban. Report them using the report button often.
The reason is if they register as a vendor you can filter them out of the results to individuals only.
We have a guy around here in the US in my city that does it and is registered as an individual, haven't gotten the ban yet........but probably soon.
I want to explain this, so some of those buying a second hand bike for the first time, understand that the prices the are asking are higher than they would be if you were buying from a genuine private seller. In some places they have a monopoly on the market, so all second hand bikes are expensive. Some people don't know how much is reasonable for second hand bikes.