P. J. Alling wrote: > I've been interested in buying a particular lens lately, > (Curse you Mark Roberts), so I've been haunting eBay. When I > bid on an item I 'll often will check out a competitors > previous purchases, to get some idea of what I'm up against. > Here's something I've noticed. Some buyers buy multiple > specimens of the same item, often bidding considerably more > than it's actually worth. I mean what the hell? How many 50mm > f2.0 A lenses does one need, one bidder, (and I wish I'd > saved the feedback page for this guy, so the curious could > look), had bought more than 20 in the past three months, in > some cases paying almost $200.00 for a lens that even KEH > usually doesn't get more than $20.00-$35.00 for. Is there > some kind of equipment acquisition derangement I'm not aware > of. (There are all kind I am aware of, after all I'm a member > of this list).
A while ago, on another unsuccessful period of bids on eBay for a black MX, I was outbid on several - also by the same person. He was also buying standard colour MXs. I asked him why via the eBay message system on something he was selling and it turned out he was starting some sort of beginners group and wanted a number of identical cameras. He wasn't paying daft money for any of them - but more than I wanted too! Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
