> Wow! People are bidding more than they can get items for new. > Bidding big bucks for things that don't even work. Some of the > sellers want more for shipping and handling than the item they > are selling is worth. I mean what kind of idiot would buy > something for 4 or 5 bucks and pay $25 shipping? Tom, Generally, things that are common are great bargains. Things that are truly rare can also be great bargains (I recently bought a wonderful Carl Zeiss S-Orthoplanar enlarging lens, which is extremely rare and cost $3,000+ the last time it was catalogued by Zeiss). However, things which crop up regularly but aren't common can go for a lot of money, since they appear frequently enough to create pent-up demand but not often enough to satisfy that demand. For instance, it's easy to buy very nice Pentax MX's for $150 or less, since these show up often. BUT a very fine *black* MX just sold for $470 the other day--a price for which you could quite easily get three functionally perfect chrome ones. Also, as with everything used, condition matters--good bargains are to be had in slightly beat-up equipment, while "minty" samples attract the collectors like flies to, uh, fecal matter. It certainly helps to be aware of these things if you're selling, too. --Mike - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org.
