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Post by pauleto on Nov 13, 2013 15:10:49 GMT
I agree, stay clear. I went to collect a bike and when I asked for directions in a local pub they all laughed! I still went ahead and when I arrived the bike wouldn't start. When I eventually left the throttle stuck scaring the shit out of me so I turned back, that's when the clutch went! I waited 2 hours while they put one in from another bike or they said I could get the train home as the bike I had traded wasn't there! When I eventually arrived home on the bike I found that I had no spare key, they had given me a duff key from a set of luggage. All in all you get what you pay for I guess, wish I had seen this site before.
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Post by scratchnsniff24 on Nov 30, 2013 23:19:58 GMT
I'm fcuking amazed these counts are still in business.. I work in retail (glorified shelf-stacker), and the focus we put into serving customers is outstanding, but when compared to this bunch of clowns... Unbelievable.
Kill 'em with fire, I say.
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Post by candymut on Dec 17, 2013 22:29:39 GMT
Viva Moto (Bradford) have a nice bike on their web site I'm interested in. Cant seem to find out much about their operation. Anyone dealt with these peeps before ? Just to keep you all informed of the situation with Viva Moto. The company have had some bad press and rightly so and to remove the pressure of bad sales and crap feedback and 5th time around auctioned bikes they have now disappeared as a company on eBay and now have re invented themselves and are now called rite_bike So please be warned that this is in fact the same outfit, same address, now using another number (they forgot to remove the old one on one of the photos on ebay thats how i know + same address) Also when you have a bike delivered from them you signed for the bike yet this is in fact a disclaimer and they do not warrant the nuts holding the machine together and if they did they is a 101 ways of getting out of it (sold as seen.) Currently they are on ebay uk and have been from the 12th of Nov, 2013 and currently have 0 feedback. The company website is not for motorcycles at all and is for bicycles ? take a look www.ritebike.co.uk/  |
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Post by rextorque12 on Dec 18, 2013 17:51:12 GMT
Yes I saw that as I have been looking for another bike and saw one with rite-bike, smelled a rat as the photo of the bike reminded me of Viva Moto, soon as I saw the address was Bradford I was off , no thanks  ( |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2013 21:31:02 GMT
To be fair, the amount of companies in that area of the country with bad reps puts me off buying anything from Bradford.
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Post by beemer on Dec 26, 2013 20:42:19 GMT
I bought a 2004 1 owner bike (bmw r1100s)from Viva Motors(Rite Bike or webuyanybike) this is my story believe it or not.
I paid £200 deposit(12/12/2013) on reading Ebay advert and then read your reveiws, oh shit.
I rang them on Monday(16/12/2013) morning to ask if I could pick up it up, fine they said but leave till late afternoon as PDI on Friday had found a noisy wheel bearing, a new one being delivered Monday morning.On arrival I was taken into the office and given all details of the bike 4 MOT'S proving very low mileage and service invoices from main dealer in Surrey, log book showing 1 owner. I was told the bike was still in the workshop and would I like to go and inspect the bike,yes the mechanic was replacing a noisy wheel bearing and the bike was almost immac. I was left in the workshop for 1/2 hour checking it out before being asked if I wanted buy.I now have a great bike with no guarantee of condition from them but a minimum of £600 cheaper than any other listed by Ebay. My decision to buy, if it all turns to shit my fault for buying it. I do not work for them and travelled to Bradford from N/Wales.
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Post by elpresidente on Dec 27, 2013 10:41:56 GMT
Caveat emptor
Let the buyer beware
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 17:19:59 GMT
Caveat emptor Let the buyer beware Illud iterum dicere potes! = You can say that again. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 17:22:46 GMT
Quisque comodeus est = Everybody is a comedian.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2013 22:14:37 GMT
I bought a 2004 1 owner bike (bmw r1100s)from Viva Motors(Rite Bike or webuyanybike) this is my story believe it or not. I paid £200 deposit(12/12/2013) on reading Ebay advert and then read your reveiws, oh shit. I rang them on Monday(16/12/2013) morning to ask if I could pick up it up, fine they said but leave till late afternoon as PDI on Friday had found a noisy wheel bearing, a new one being delivered Monday morning.On arrival I was taken into the office and given all details of the bike 4 MOT'S proving very low mileage and service invoices from main dealer in Surrey, log book showing 1 owner. I was told the bike was still in the workshop and would I like to go and inspect the bike,yes the mechanic was replacing a noisy wheel bearing and the bike was almost immac. I was left in the workshop for 1/2 hour checking it out before being asked if I wanted buy.I now have a great bike with no guarantee of condition from them but a minimum of £600 cheaper than any other listed by Ebay. My decision to buy, if it all turns to shit my fault for buying it. I do not work for them and travelled to Bradford from N/Wales. Even a company with such a sheeeee-ite reputation as Viva or whatever could get it right once. Or as you have only one post, that you work for them. Either way 99% bad rep = avoid like herpes. |
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Post by Wheelnut on Dec 27, 2013 23:25:29 GMT
Either way 99% bad rep = avoid like herpes. It's trial by internet though isn't it? It's human nature to complain more loudly than we praise. If they have 99 happy customers and 1 unhappy one it will be the unhappy one that posts. Ir's also telling that the complainers have come on specifically to complain and only posted once. |
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Post by jacko on Dec 27, 2013 23:49:37 GMT
Got to agree with you on this wheelnut trial by internet seems about right and people do only shout about complaints
Although I have been to the showroom in Bradford and looking at the state if some of the bikes which I was told by one of the salesmen were mostly either part exchanges or bought direct from we buy any bikes I wouldn't buy anything from them without seeing it and testing it
But then again I gave only once bought a vehicle and had it deliverd without first seeing it and that was a project , I was lucky and it was as described
End if day you are buying something secondhand look and try before you buy Buyer beware
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Post by Wheelnut on Dec 28, 2013 15:00:52 GMT
Yep. I present to you the following M'Lud : - A company that had lied and deceived customers regarding bikes they sell.
- A company that has bad feedback on any forum you look at.
- The only good reports are by people with single posts, and some proved to be an employee of the aforementioned company.
- A company that has changed its trading name at least 3 times now.
Guilty as charged. Head over to ukgser forum and have a look on the technical section of the site. You'd think that GSs were the most unreliable piece of crap ever made (quiet at the back  ) Yet there are hundreds of thousands of riders out there who have never had any sort of issue. Those riders don't post. I'm not saying they are good, I'm not saying they are bad. I don't know. I just follow the advice of abraham lincoln who said 'don't beleive anything you read on the internet'.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2013 17:59:57 GMT
Didn't the British and Americans and assorted allies go to war with Iraq, kill thousands of people and spend billions of war arms money based on a university paper on the internet that was subsequently plagiarised and used as proof of weapons of mass destruction held by Saddam ?
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Post by beemer on Dec 28, 2013 19:52:23 GMT
I do not work for viva motors or rite bike I am 69 years old and well retired.Buying this bike from them was like a private sale on ebay where there was no guarantee given or test ride unless the seller had the money in his hand.Maybe I was very lucky!!
I have been able to speak to the previous owner as his phone number was on the 1st(2004) sales invoice in the pack I was given and everything checks out.
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Post by hman on Jan 13, 2014 15:59:24 GMT
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Post by bridgestone on Jan 13, 2014 19:46:47 GMT
Thank God for Google Translate!  Oh and yep.......there appears to be a LOT of this thread missing.....  Maybe Viva Moto are coming onboard as a site sponsor and the forum doesn't want to upset them?  |
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Post by hman on Jan 13, 2014 19:51:11 GMT
Yes so what have happened? There was three pages now its hardly two pages. No wonder vivamoto manage to rip people of all the time. They probably have a wanna bee lawyer svaring the website owners. Its very low moral by the site admins to approve this. I mean I have stated everything with evidence and now with swedens biggest news paper. Very uppsetting! Thank God for Google Translate! Oh and yep.......there appears to be a LOT of this thread missing..... Maybe Viva Moto are coming onboard as a site sponsor and the forum doesn't want to upset them? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2014 21:29:03 GMT
I noticed that to ... Not a big fan of secret 'editing' of post.
So whoever is responsible can they pipe up and give an explanation why posts are missing from this thread.
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Post by Wheelnut on Jan 13, 2014 21:33:54 GMT
I noticed that to ... Not a big fan of secret 'editing' of post. So whoever is responsible can they pipe up and give an explanation why posts are missing from this thread. Perhaps because someone using the forum to settle a personal vendetta was getting a bit close to libel? Maybe. |
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