[QUOTE=Hilltopperny;3128786]
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Originally Posted by oldpotatoe
Guess there are a lot of business' out there you don't like then. Ya know, gotta 'keep the ligs on'...TPC, along with just about every viable biz out there, are in it to 'keep the lights on'...and everything that means.
There are indeed a lot of businesses that I don't like! There is a huge difference between keeping the lights on and buying up every used bike on the market and then price gouging. Selling used bicycles bought for a pittance and reselling them for new retail prices is not keeping the lights on it is exploiting folks who don't know any better. PT Barnum and all that.
I am glad as it is one less place I need to purchase anything from. Put them on the same list as bicycle blue book...a place I will no longer spend my money...
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Sounds like a great conspiracy theory...a team of TPC people, sitting at their computers all day, 24/7, scouring all the used bike sites, buying bikes, then cleaning them and reselling them at OUTRAGEOUS prices...Not really how they work tho. Vast majority of the used stuff they get are from people and yes, manufacturers, that contact TPC first, not the other way around.....
The utilities in their zillion square foot warehouse, the crew of more than 100 people, plus everything else that makes for their monthly fixed costs...not a small number but I get it..it's a biz you don't like and will never use..10-4...