Thursday, September 17, 2020

Our 1st Successful Sale on Facebook

14 September 2020

This afternoon we sold an item (bicycle) on Facebook for the very 1st time.   We only agreed to see 2 people this afternoon.  1st person didn't come, called the meeting off last minute and said her neighbor was selling their bicycle to them.   I called the 2nd person.   He came, looked at it, liked it and paid.   It was quick and easy.


We posted the bicycle for sale yesterday on a few selling places on Facebook.  20 people enquired about the bicycle.  One person offered $120, another $100 and another $70.    One asked what was our best offer?   If nobody is willing to pay $125 for it, we intend to donate to our church's annual fundraising sale.   This year there was no sale because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

We ordered the Schwinn Connection S5926WM Hybrid bicycle from walmart.com on the 21 August 2016.  We paid $216.52 (incl. of tax).

Disappointedly, Mike's 1st ride on the 27 August 2016, after only 2 miles,  on a paved path in a park, the hind tyre tube popped!

Had the tube changed, on the 2 September 2016, at a Walmart supercenter  but was not happy that we have to pay for the 700C tube, even though it is like $4.21 (incl. of $0.33 tax)

Emailed walmart.com and voiced our disappointment of what happened only after only 2 miles of riding.    So they refunded us $19.90 on the 5 October 2016.   They knew how to make their customers happy.

We have no problems after that.   It was a beautiful bicycle.  Sadly, Mike only rode it less than 5 times during these 4 years, probably just 3 times, if I remembered correctly.  He had hoped to get back to riding when his health conditions enable him to, but it didn't.  It was in the past month that he decided a tricycle would be safer for him and so he finally decided to sell it.  I would have ridden it long ago if I was tall enough for it.


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