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Mr. Drew, did you have something to actually say? Please have at it. I have no idea what this post means. Do you?
Well, yes I do. Spoo
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – That’s the beauty of eBay – it seperates the fools from their money. Anytime someone will pay $80 for a $40 electronic remote cord (yes, it happened. $40 new at B&H – $80 used on eBay) makes me wonder about the future of the species. Don’t tell anyone. I’m thinking about buying lens caps at garage sales, selling them on eBay and retiring. EBAY IS AT IT AGAIN! –my camera repair manual just sold on Ebay for $66 used. The MANUALS often sell for outrageously high prices there…and they are NOT RARE! Many people don’t know they are all still in print and I am very much in business. The Basic Text is $35 plus $4 shipping at http://www.edromney.com . The other repair manuals for specific cameras average about $20-$25 from me . Leica is a little more. The Basic Text is also available from these bookstores: Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, Borders Bookstore, Baker and Taylor and from Porters Camera Store. Overseas they are sold by Lindemann in Germany, Kalkmanns in Netherlands, Grundman in Italy, Cosmonet in Japan and many more..John Craig and others sell reprint manuals. Don’t be fooled by auction hysteria.. If some of you monitor eBay it would help if you tell bidders the truth, that the repair manuals are nothing rare. Best wishes.. Ed Romney
As someone said long ago " There is a sucker born every minute " A person who buys anything at auction and isn’t going to get fleeced knows what they are buying and has done a little research ! I.E. average price etc … Scott
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But it makes perfect sense. It prooves that there’s a sucker born every minute. And scalpers know it all too well. You see even worse bullcrap with commonly available toys, like Beanie Babies, Furbys, Pokeman, etc., etc. And the auction scalper know all-to-well that they are counting on the sucker to overbid.
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Ed, this is just a cheap shot to promote your drecky book. Who cares if someone bids whatever they want to bid? Did anyone force them to bid what they bid? Besides, maybe they know if they actually BUY one of your books from a bookseller that you stand to make money on it. Any clear-thinking person would probably rather buy the book used. This is your response Chuck? You’re such a reasoned fellow. We all love you Chuck. We think you’re the greatest photographer there ever was. You look so much better now that you’ve posted this. We all understand the great nobility of your hate of insufferable people and Romney in particular. I look forward to seeing more of your acrid posts. They are so helpful to all of us who look up to you.
Mr. Drew, did you have something to actually say? Please have at it. I have no idea what this post means. Do you? — Images Graphics Digital and Film-based Photography http://www.members.home.com/ckross/
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Then again, there’s nothing like a pure competitive market selling to the highest bidder at whatever the market can bear! 
(nudge, maybe you should start selling them yourself on Ebay for some extra $$) In any case, it happens. There’s nothing like the bidding frenzy and the last second stealth bid to push prices into the stratosphere. After all, if the last couple seconds has the price at $30x, and you WANT-to-win-no-matter-what-because-you-hate-to-lose, well, then, you put in a last second bid a several $$ above what you think everyone else is doing and hope it’s the killer bid. naturally, stealth bids are a great way to win if you first sync your timepiece or PC to the Atomic Time Servers in the USA (eg. use AtomTime, etc.) because the last bid in by the end of the auction wins all. Of course, good gaming skills help because you have to time mentally the amount of time you have between entering the bid, entering the login/password, and having the data transmitted to the back end. (hint: open two windows and put in the bid amount first to jump to the login/password page; enter both and wait until the last second to submit) d =) …then again, it’s a wonder why anyone would bid some books up into the stratosphere.. eg. a Macross VF-X book for $15 at my local store ended at over $100 one day just because some guy thought it was Rare…
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Ed, this is just a cheap shot to promote your drecky book. Who cares if someone bids whatever they want to bid? Did anyone force them to bid what they bid? Besides, maybe they know if they actually BUY one of your books from a bookseller that you stand to make money on it. Any clear-thinking person would probably rather buy the book used.
This is your response Chuck? You’re such a reasoned fellow. We all love you Chuck. We think you’re the greatest photographer there ever was. You look so much better now that you’ve posted this. We all understand the great nobility of your hate of insufferable people and Romney in particular. I look forward to seeing more of your acrid posts. They are so helpful to all of us who look up to you. — Robert
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The really amusing thing here about Ed’s post is that I’m sure he had no problem taking the money from the poor soul that overbid on his book.
My guess is that someone else was selling it. Aye, there’s the rub! Spoo
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Old ads from Pop Photo, and Modern Photography. Hey, who needs a 401K while we have public libraries? Just invest in a razor blade, and you’re in business! I was looking at an old Yashica rangefinder at a pawn shop, the lady behind the counter said "you don’t want any of those [the whole lot of dusty cameras], none of them work, we’ve had them for years." One word popped into my mind – "EBAY!" I wonder whay they’d take for the lot of them? That’s the beauty of eBay – it seperates the fools from their money. Anytime someone will pay $80 for a $40 electronic remote cord (yes, it happened. $40 new at B&H – $80 used on eBay) makes me wonder about the future of the species. Don’t tell anyone. I’m thinking about buying lens caps at garage sales, selling them on eBay and retiring.
Before you buy.
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EBAY IS AT IT AGAIN! –my camera repair manual just sold on Ebay for $66 used. The MANUALS often sell for outrageously high prices there…and they are NOT RARE!
Yep, I had a bid on a home reprint of a rollei repair manual and bid $10. This thing ended up going for $70!!! Stephe
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That’s the beauty of eBay – it seperates the fools from their money. Anytime someone will pay $80 for a $40 electronic remote cord (yes, it happened. $40 new at B&H – $80 used on eBay) makes me wonder about the future of the species. Don’t tell anyone. I’m thinking about buying lens caps at garage sales, selling them on eBay and retiring. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -EBAY IS AT IT AGAIN! –my camera repair manual just sold on Ebay for $66 used. The MANUALS often sell for outrageously high prices there…and they are NOT RARE! Many people don’t know they are all still in print and I am very much in business. The Basic Text is $35 plus $4 shipping at http://www.edromney.com . The other repair manuals for specific cameras average about $20-$25 from me . Leica is a little more. The Basic Text is also available from these bookstores: Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, Borders Bookstore, Baker and Taylor and from Porters Camera Store. Overseas they are sold by Lindemann in Germany, Kalkmanns in Netherlands, Grundman in Italy, Cosmonet in Japan and many more..John Craig and others sell reprint manuals. Don’t be fooled by auction hysteria.. If some of you monitor eBay it would help if you tell bidders the truth, that the repair manuals are nothing rare. Best wishes.. Ed Romney
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The really amusing thing here about Ed’s post is that I’m sure he had no problem taking the money from the poor soul that overbid on his book. — Ken Rowland To reply via e-mail, remove the "X" from my address
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Ed, this is just a cheap shot to promote your drecky book. Who cares if someone bids whatever they want to bid? Did anyone force them to bid what they bid? Besides, maybe they know if they actually BUY one of your books from a bookseller that you stand to make money on it. Any clear-thinking person would probably rather buy the book used. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – EBAY IS AT IT AGAIN! –my camera repair manual just sold on Ebay for $66 used. The MANUALS often sell for outrageously high prices there…and they are NOT RARE! Many people don’t know they are all still in print and I am very much in business. The Basic Text is $35 plus $4 shipping at http://www.edromney.com . The other repair manuals for specific cameras average about $20-$25 from me . Leica is a little more. The Basic Text is also available from these bookstores: Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, Borders Bookstore, Baker and Taylor and from Porters Camera Store. Overseas they are sold by Lindemann in Germany, Kalkmanns in Netherlands, Grundman in Italy, Cosmonet in Japan and many more..John Craig and others sell reprint manuals. Don’t be fooled by auction hysteria.. If some of you monitor eBay it would help if you tell bidders the truth, that the repair manuals are nothing rare. Best wishes.. Ed Romney
– Images Graphics Digital and Film-based Photography http://www.members.home.com/ckross/
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EBAY IS AT IT AGAIN! –my camera repair manual just sold on Ebay for $66 used. The MANUALS often sell for outrageously high prices there…and they are NOT RARE! Many people don’t know they are all still in print and I am very much in business. The Basic Text is $35 plus $4 shipping at http://www.edromney.com . The other repair manuals for specific cameras average about $20-$25 from me . Leica is a little more. The Basic Text is also available from these bookstores: Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, Borders Bookstore, Baker and Taylor and from Porters Camera Store. Overseas they are sold by Lindemann in Germany, Kalkmanns in Netherlands, Grundman in Italy, Cosmonet in Japan and many more..John Craig and others sell reprint manuals. Don’t be fooled by auction hysteria.. If some of you monitor eBay it would help if you tell bidders the truth, that the repair manuals are nothing rare. Best wishes.. Ed Romney
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