Originally Posted by
Rabid Koala
$1400 Buy It Now for a Series 5 Paramount, and the seller says "
I don't want to hear "It was made in China or Japan or Asia or anywhere else". I'm not or hadn't said what country it was from because I just don't know! The fact is it is a one-of-a-kind bike and a once-in-a-life-time find."
Umm, OK. It is nice, but not worth even the opening bid as far as I am concerned.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...E:B:SS:US:1123
I talked to the guy on the phone - he asked me to call him after I had emailed him. He's actually very nice. He listed the bike not knowing where it was made, just that it's a Paramount. He's a balloon-tire guy - not the first time this kind of thing has happened. He got defensive in his ad after getting flooded with cranky Paramount-police emails almost the moment he listed the bike. I explained to him that it's Asian-built; he knows that at this point. I guess he's sticking to his guns as far as his bid-price structure, at least for now. I told him it's not worth his BIN. He also had a reserve, initially - don't know if that's still there. It might be worth the opening bid price, IMO, based on the Icy Hot paint scheme (not sure I've seen that on a Series bike before), the quality of components, and the pristine condition, but perhaps not much more than that.