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Old Oct 4, 2025 | 06:30 PM
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so I was selling a part on facebook marketplace, the dude asked me to ship, he was semi nearby, maybe 2hrs north of me, so I asked him if he'd be interested in meeting me halfway at Classic HD in Leesport (Reading) Pa, he agreed to do so, it was the halfway point for both of us and it was a beautiful day to ride. So long story short lol, I met up with the dude, Mark, super cool guy btw, as we were walking out to my bike, I noticed two dudes over messing with my bike, the one was messing around the right side controls area, the other was opening my bags and ****, I walked up and say "what are you doing" and he says "we're evaluating this bike, is it yours" I was taken aback and replied "yeah! but I didn't ask you to evalute my bike" then the poor guy says "why do I have your fob" I reply "you don't, it's in my pocket" I was annoyed, but embarraed for them at the same time. They scurry off and go up to a satin black RG and yelled across the parking lot "we found it" the bike was a totally different color than mine, apparently the salesman set them up for failure. I feel like I was a little harsh, but it's not cool walking up seeing two random dudes messing with your bike, how would you all have handled that?
 

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Oct 4, 2025, 07:26 PM
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Should’ve stabbed them
 
Old Oct 4, 2025 | 06:33 PM
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Same
 
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Old Oct 4, 2025 | 06:55 PM
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So now kidney punches are too woke?
 
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Old Oct 4, 2025 | 07:08 PM
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That is a weird story. Different color bike, and the salesman was not even present? WTF is up with that? You handled that as well as could be done.

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Old Oct 4, 2025 | 07:14 PM
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Sounds a little fishy.
 
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Same
Agreed.
 
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Old Oct 4, 2025 | 07:47 PM
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Where's Cowboy Rob when we need him
 
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Are you sure that they were employees? It sounds fishy to me, I probably would've been a dick about it and spoke to the GM.
 
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Originally Posted by ridingout
Are you sure that they were employees? It sounds fishy to me, I probably would've been a dick about it and spoke to the GM.
The way I read it, I thought they were customers?

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