Originally Posted by
noglider
That bike that @
cyccommute looks great. List price is $1,100, and the sale price is $400. That's insane. If it fits your body and your needs, you'd be crazy not to buy it or at least consider it. Thanks, cyccommute!
Agreed. In my experience, Bike Island's "new with scuffs on cranks and dropouts" is code for "may have been shipped to a buyer, assembled, and returned". But when they list a whole pile of bikes like that, it's just unsold stock from an old model (from bikesdirect), totally new, quite probably never shipped or assembled.
I bought a bike from a listing like that, and it was so great, my wife stole it from me, so I bought two more. I kept one, and made a 'profit' (rather, subsidized the first one) parting the other one out. They're all sold now, but
this was the bike; the original I bought for $750, the other two for $700 ea.