Karen Nakamura wrote: > You can buy a used EOS consumer series for less than $100 these days > (I'm selling one for roughly that price myself) so there's no reason > to get it fixed except for sentimental ones. It's cheaper to get a > like-new one off ebay.
If, indeed, the purchased camera is "like new" and not just described as such. If you're buying an older camera, even if it's not been in use and had a "new" look, you're still likely to encounter similar age-related problems. Even if a camera sits for years on a shelf (and was not in use for the similar period of time), you're still going to eventually see age deterioration, most likely. Of course, there are a lot of factors involved in terms of the environment in which the camera was kept, if it's ever been serviced before, etc. In any case, when you buy older equipment used, you're buying an unknown commodity in terms of its condition. Personally, I'd rather fix a camera that I own and about which I know the history. Just one opinion, though (and it's not like I haven't bought my share of used equipment)... ;-) Al Ruscelli * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
