{"id":740,"date":"2007-06-25T13:59:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T13:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journeytorussia.co.uk\/2007\/06\/25\/ebay-is-a-curse-at-times-2\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T09:25:08","slug":"ebay-is-a-curse-at-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/ebay-is-a-curse-at-times-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebay is a curse at times&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for spares since my accident. Some are harder to find than others and let&#8217;s be honest as this is a Honda new ones aren&#8217;t cheap so &#8216;previously enjoyed&#8217; spares are the order of the day.<\/p>\n<p>One part\u00a0that&#8217;s been particulary vexing for me\u00a0has been the front fairing spur &#8211; without being to technical it holds the front fairing and the intruments to the front of the bike and a new honda one is about \u00a3200.<\/p>\n<p>Afterweeks of looking on Ebay (UK and Germany) I bit the bullet and ordered a &#8216;discounted&#8217; one from a well known Honda parts specialist.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Now I know you know where this is going but not two days after placing my order (non returnable &#038;\u00a0money upfront) I was tralwing on ebay.de and low and behold not one but TWO of the dam\u00a0things are listed and both shipping to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>I hate the internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for spares since my accident. Some are harder to find than others and let&#8217;s be honest as this is a Honda new ones aren&#8217;t cheap so &#8216;previously enjoyed&#8217; spares are the order of the day. One part\u00a0that&#8217;s been particulary vexing for me\u00a0has been the front fairing spur &#8211; without being to technical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/ebay-is-a-curse-at-times-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ebay is a curse at times&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}