Re: [Leica] Re: typical E-bay bad deal

[Paul Klingaman <pklingaman@hotmail.com>]

I am one of them.  Also Javier, you are forgetting the great thing that ebay 
does for the non-professional seller.  It allows you to sell items and get 
dealer(or slighty under, and in some cases over) prices for them.  Thus, now 
if you just can't justify keeping that N90 around gathering dust, your 
options are no longer a)Get raped by a dealer who wants to give you 1/2 of 
its value or b)take out a classified ad and wait, and wait, and give 
strangers your home phone number and address, etc.  Now you, Joe citizen, 
have a world-wide(or at least nation wide) market.  As an added bonus, the 
person who buys that body is getting what they consider a good deal, having 
searched the dealers only to be discouraged by their high(er) prices.  Sure 
there are dishonest ebayers out there, but there are also those who want to 
be fair.  The glass is half full.

Paul Klingaman


>From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: typical E-bay bad deal
>Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 21:47:59 -0400
>
>And yet I know many people who have bought cameras and lenses at bargain
>prices on eBay.
>
>Dan C.
>
>At 10:10 PM 08-06-99 -0400, you wrote:
>[snip]
> >
> >Here goes
> >
> >The only thing E-bay does is, inflate markets.
>[snip]
>
> >ress and auction and scam
> >in the old archive. Lets start
> >spreading the anti-auction gospel, lest we crucify opur wallets.
> >
> >Seriously, do you want to see the 4000 dollar chrome M4 in a couple of
> >years????
> >
> >
> >
> >See Ya
> >Javier
> >
>
>


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