Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/07

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Subject: [Leica] What happened to Ebay?
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:23:22 -0400 (EDT)
 
machineage111 (what a name!) wrote:

>Ebay used to be a good place to pick up used  Leica gear at reasonable
>prices. . It was fun!  Also a good place to sell . Now most Leica items are
>listed at very high  "buy it now" prices from "power seller" big
>dealers",mostly located in Hongkong , Japan or Los Angeles. It's hard to
>find anything interesting up for auction.. What happened?

A lot of the interesting stuff has moved to craigslist.  A friend of mine is 
making a VERY good living  buying old Toyota mini-motorhomes from craigslist 
ads and re-selling on ebay, typically for a $10,000 profit per unit.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com