The purpose of this site is for sellers and buyers to list items for sale or wanted that are associated with vintage scooters (including, but not limited to, Vespa and Lambretta) in the United States.
This site was started in response to the excessive spam and lack of moderation on the 'other' site. It is the intention of this site to keep it as simple as the other, allowing for anonymous posting. You don't have to make an account to post a listing. This site will be moderated closely, with spam posts deleted within minutes or at the worst a few hours, depending on the time of day they are posted.
Because listings are anonymous, they cannot be edited or deleted by the original poster. If you made a mistake in your listing, post again, stating that this new listing supersedes the old one, and correct the error. It is likely that a moderator will delete the original listing if it is clear that the new one should replace the old one. Once your item has been sold, you can make another post stating as such.
Only listings made in the last 180 days are shown to keep the number of pages down. It assumed that listings older than this are 'stale' and the item is most likely sold.
If you have suggestions on making this site better, or need assistance in some way, send an email to the moderators.
Known Scammers
This is a list of the known scammers or scams that have been seen on this site.
If you get an email from anyone (on this list or not) wanting to buy what you're selling and it looks fishy, or too good to be true, it is.
If you have encountered a scammer on this site, or feel that your inclusion in this list is unwarranted, please send an email to the moderators.
- John Guarino
jcguarino300@tildamail.com
This person is listed as a scammer on another site. They sent the following message to a seller who posted on this site:
"I'm hard of hearing i do all my correspondence via email. The hauler is a private individual and once the check clear your bank, i will provide you with the needed information and the hauler will call you to make arrangement for the pickup and as for the check like i said in my previous message it was my financier that issued the check on my behalf, you just have to be patient till the check is delivered to you. Thank you kindly"
Changes
- (v1.65) - March 10, 2024: Fine tuning new image upload system. It should work well with all devices now (desktop/laptop, smart phones and tablets)
- (v1.6) - March 3, 2024: Image upload and other UI improvements
- (v1.5) - February 22, 2024: CAPTCHA improvements.
- (v1.4) - August 18, 2023: UI and other improvements.
- (v1.3) - July 12, 2023: UI improvements. Added a bookmark system. Click the icon next to the title of a listing to put the item in or to take it out of your bookmarks list. Please note that the bookmark system is handled with cookies. In order to use it, cookies must be enabled on your browser. (They usually are unless you have specifically turned them off.) Also, if you browse the site with more than one device, your bookmark list will be different on each device.
- (v1.2) - May 11, 2023: UI improvements
- (v1.1) - Apr 8, 2023: Added price field and made other changes
- (v1.0) - Feb 7, 2023: WebP images may now be uploaded.
- (v.9) - Jan 25, 2023: Posts are scanned for URLs and if found, will make them clickable. Make sure you include http:// or https:// if you paste a URL.
- (v.8) - Jan 12, 2023: Added share icon so link to the item could be copied to clipboard.
- (v.78) - Nov 2, 2022: UI Improvements and enhanced meta tags for sharing.
- (v.75) - Oct 26, 2022: Added cookie consent bar.
- (v.7) - Oct 23, 2022: UI improvements.
- (v.65) - Dec 15, 2021: Bug fixes and improvements.
- (v.62) - Aug 30, 2021: EXIF 'orientation' value is taken into account when uploading images so they are rotated correctly in the listing. This should avoid upside down or sideways images, as long as your photos have EXIF data embeded in them (which they should if they've been taken by a modern smart phone or digital camera).
Uploaded image size increased to 7mb. - (v.6) - Aug 25, 2021: Search feature added and 'About' page updated. The search looks at the title, body and location fields. You can enter only part of a word ('lamb', for example, will return listings that have 'lambretta' in them), or you can search for a phrase, such as 'rear rack', or 'Los Angeles'.
- (v.5) - Aug 20, 2021: To boost performance, especially on mobile devices, images on the home page are now smaller in file size, and 'lazy' image loading is used.
- (v.4) - Aug 14, 2021: Made mobile experience more friendly.
- (v.3) - Aug 12, 2021: Minor bug fixes and improvements.
- (v.2) - Aug 9, 2021: Added ability to upload multiple images in a listing. Shift-select or control-select multiple images in the window that pops up when you click 'choose files'. You can upload up to four images. Each image can be a JPG/JPEG, PNG, or GIF.
- (v.1) - Aug 7, 2021: Initial release.