So - perhaps not the right thread - but how did you search for your replacement bike?
My standby is to do "saved searches" on eBay where eBay emails me listings when certain key words are found in a listing. I put in what I want that is specific enough that I can gather the item I want in but not so specific I miss something.
For instance, say I want to look for a used Co-Motion Divide bike with a Pinion P1.18 gearbox with S&S Couplers. If I put in all the key words using the Boolean Operators
https://libguides.mit.edu/c.php?g=175963&p=1158594 to search for Used, Co-Motion, Divide, Bicycle, Pinion, P1.18, and S&S, it would have to be a very specific listing by the seller who had to use all of those specific key words. If the seller used "bike" instead of "bicycle", I would not have received the email. Therefore, I would most likely do a search on just "Co-Motion Divide" under the Cycling category. Once I get the search I want, I click "(heart) Save this search" near the the top of the page and the eBay will automatically email when a new listing with the key words of "Co-Motion Divide" occurs. I then weed out the listings mailed to me with a derailleur system, Rohloff, non-preferred color, etc. This all takes me easily less than 1 minute per day once the saved search is set up.
Eventually, you will get an email for the listing you want no matter how specific you want. It may take years but they do occur. For instance, I REALLY want a pair of vintage Redwood Cycling Apparel cycling shorts in large. These shorts were from the early 80s and I loved them. I have a saved search on "Redwood Cycling" with the words in quotes so eBay knows it is that specific phrase I am looking for. I have had this search in place for over a decade and have gotten about a dozen responses over the years but nothing in large. I have bought a pair in medium and am seriously considering having some "reverse engineered" for me in large.
Other good sources are having the classifieds in
Bike Forums,
ACA's Classifieds, etc. sent to me daily. A quick 5 second scan tells me if I want to consider anything offered. Other decent websites for touring bikes are
Pinkbike.com,
Bicycle Blue Book, and
Bike Exchange. If a road bike, add
Pros Closet. Most of these sites will allow you to so saved searches and will email you when something appears. Then just be patient. Something WILL turn up and usually at a pretty good discount from new.
The reason I am so pro used bike is that a lot of people buy a very high end bike and then later decide to sell it for whatever reason and almost always at least 50% off if over a couple of years old. And most high end bikes are still of very decent quality after even 5 years. Look how little Co-Motion has changed the Americano in 10 years. Sure they added the Belt Drive option and the Pinion option, but other than that, nada. So I figure if I am basically getting an identical but older bike compared to a new one, why not buy used. If I have to spend a couple hundred putting on new cables, tires, bar wrap, etc., to bring it up to date, the discount is still significant compared to new.
Also, it is actually rare the bikes have been ridden that hard or at least hard compared to what it is capable of. In all my years, I have only found a couple of bikes that were used extensively, i.e. one guy was selling a Co-Motion Divide with Rohloff who had been on the road in South America for 3 years and while the bike was still usable and was priced inexpensively, I didn't want something that used. I bought my previous Americano for 51% of new retail and it had been ridden only on the Pacific Coast Route and some local day rides. It was at the time 3 years old and in very good condition. I didn't love the Vanilla color but I wasn't going to pay an extra $2k to change the color. My Thorn Nomad MkII with Rohloff & S&S only had about 1200 miles on it and I bought it for 42% of new retail. I found that one by looking at the Thorn Forums page every week for about two months before a guy in Germany was selling it.
Anyway, do lots of saved searches and it will come.
