Please let's back off the V-O comments. Grant has addressed this more than a few times. There's no "there" there in that discussion.
It's hard to fault someone who has a decent piece of gear that they will no longer use, or something they tried out (handlebars, of late, come to mind here) that didn't quite work for them. If they want to post it here on the list, particularly if they are regular and active member of this group, I have to think that their actions come from the right place. And I do think that works from the purchasing end as well. We can't know someone's financial position, and at times in life, the money saved or earned might have go directly to rent or food or care. I suspect those transactions, though during the winter season they seem to particularly flourish, are still a small eddy compared the flow of goods from Walnut Creek. It seems that for a great number of people here - with significant geographic spread - RBW and RBBH are their "local" bike shops. There are more WTB posts and FS posts which don't hit the list. Those are typically from folks who try to post once and never do so again. Don't know quite how to correlate those, but assume they are trying to find bargain bits for their ebay stores. Having run a retail store for many years, I can attest that there is little more maddening than working with a customer (or watching your staff help someone) who was only using our shop inventory as a "showroom" for whatever internet company they were planning on buying something through. And it is through that lens that I first view folks posting here that so-and-so has something Riv designed/sells at a hefty discount. Though I do know people who will buy from someone who is literally a dollar cheaper, that's not the way I'm wired. As GP has written, I try to buy from the place I saw something first. In 1994, there weren't a lot of resources around like Rivendell, so it seems appropriate to support them when I can. - Jim / cyclofiend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
