Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:37 PM -0700 8/12/00, Roland Smith wrote: >You support the point made by those of us on the LUG about the spirit of the >reference to Ebay. You acknowledge that you are a dealer for a margin of >profit. > >I, certainly, hope the spirit of the LUG is that it is not a vehicle for >dealers. I most certainly am not a dealer. I am not in this for profit. I am in it to enjoy the photographic exercise and to keep the difference between the 'entrance fee' and 'exit fee' as small as possible. Others may not care and it's their choice to throw money away needlessly and insist on banning the four letter word "ebay" from the LUG. Anyone on LUG who doesn't take advantage of the buying/selling world of ebay, IMHO, are only hurting themselves. I have bought many Leica items at bargain prices and sold many items as well. It's a great service. On the other hand, maybe I should be dissuading LUGgers from going to ebay, as that way there will be fewer people to compete with on those good deals I've found. :) Lastly, the spirit of the LUG, as I see, is the enjoyment and camaraderie that is generated through the common interest in Leica equipment. LUGgers routinely recommend Goldberg or Krauter or B&H or other vendors, eBay is just one more trading source, so it should they be banned, any more so than the aforementioned vendors? Since there are usually 20-25 pages of Leica equipment at any given time for sale on eBay (considerably more than any single Leica vendor I know of) why ignore it under some vague idealistic premise? - -R > > > At 11:26 AM -0400 8/11/00, B. D. Colen wrote: > > >I'm not saying you shouldn't sell it on Ebay to someone moronic enough to > > >buy...I throw away everything but the plastic box and instructions when I > > >buy an M, or the black case if I buy a lens, but that's me. > > > > > > > That's certainly your prerogative. I find that I buy and sell Leica > > gear quite often and part of my incurred 'fee' into this £ world is > > the difference between what I pay and what I am able to resell it > > for. Keeping boxes and papers and selling on ebay has actually made > > this 'fee' zero or less than zero on several occasions. Pretty nice > > to be able to play with all this nice equipment and sell it with no > > penalty. In the old days before ebay, it was at least a 30% hit on a > > trade in, or having to discount it by selling in the paper, etc. > > > > Just my 2 shillings. > > > > -r - ------- PowerLogix R&D, Inc. Main Office: 3921 Steck Avenue, Suite A105 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 795-2978 x107 (512) 795-2981 FAX