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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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Well.... I'm not sure I agree the guy was vilified. Though outting his name probably wasn't necessary (I knew it from the fact that he responded to me).
Still... thousands of bucks of gear for 100 smackers raises suspicion.
And let's be fair... most people on this thread didn't vilify him. They voiced their suspicion is all.
So anyway.... that listing had two portaledges. Do ya need 'em both? ;-)
Now they guy selling the aliens.... he's being vilified.... and for good reason! LOL! sales tax on the little family....
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BooYah
Social climber
Ely, Nv
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I don't think you really want a ledge.....You've had a couple golden chances.
None of my beeswax, tho.
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aaronfm
Trad climber
BA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 5, 2010 - 01:32pm PT
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I posted the link to the ad to *both* raise awareness about possible stolen gear AND to alert people to a really good deal if the guy turned out to be legit. I wasn't necessarily vilifying the guy, I was also helping him advertise -- had mucci managed to buy the stuff, he would've gotten himself a really good deal.
I would've tried to buy it had I been able to drive down to the south bay...
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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BooYah... yeah, I know. I blew it twice now. And now I'm stuck. Maybe I should just go find a warm beach instead of getting on EC.
Aaron - you served notice and I hope folks would continue to do that in the way you did it.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Hey nature,
would you be suspicious of somebody selling a pair of Clog ascenders, some pins, a pulley, 4 biners (2 locking) for only $100 ?
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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Ron... that screams Thief into my right and left ear! Maybe said Thief could toss in a Portaledge and a new haul line?
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jsb
Trad climber
Bay area
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Nature and Aaron, I agree... the thread was a good idea and Aaron did a service by bringing this to everybody's attention.
P.S. Both the ledges are singles, so I'll keep one for myself and one for my gf.
P.P.S. Probably the coolest thing that he gave me were some of his old shoes. A few pairs are brand new, maybe they didn't fit him perfectly or something. Check this out, one of the brand new pairs... original EB's! One of them hadn't even been laced up yet. So if you see somebody in Yosemite running around in shiny EB's that look way too small for him. That's me!
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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already tried that fatty. He laughed at me. A lot.
jsb... cool deal but dang... putting the GF in a separate ledge just doesn't seem right.
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waulrat
Big Wall climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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Speaking of stolen gear, I figured I's repost this for my buddy. Set us back on plans for last week... bummer.
Hi everyone.
Please keep an eye out for a a rack for sale out of the Long Beach area in Ca.
Someone broke into my car and took my 70% of my rack (the other stuff was in the house) along with a bunch of my aid gear.
All the metal had purple nail polish and some of it was marked with green rack tags
looking for...
double set aliens black to red, singles orange to clear
double set camalots #1 to #4 mixed between old single stems and C4s
1 each #5 and #6 C4s and one ole #5 camalot
1 set of Smiley nuts and 1 set of HB offsets (Brass and aluminum)
most everything was on Wild Country Helium carabiners
1 set Yates 6 step ladders
1set Yates 7 step ladderrs
1 set met. jumars
1 Yates Shield
1 Misty Mountain Cadillac
That's the majority of if
Please let me know if something pops up for sale...
Thanks everyone,
Looks like wall season is going to be delayed for me...
Zac(Caz)
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