----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Stanke" <bstanke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 11:47 PM
Subject: [OM] A curious e-mail
> Idea #2 is that the potential buyer was trying to buy the item for less
> than the minimum bid ($10).
I employed that ruse early this year to buy an (allegedly) new 35-70
f3.5-4.5 Zuiko zoom. Being "new", the starting price was high, with the
result that no one bid. When the auction ended I offered the seller 20%
less, which he accepted. That was my first "big" Ebay purchase, and not
having the (alleged) protections of Ebay made me nervous, especially as the
seller was in the USA and I am in the UK. But it all worked out OK.
Was the 35-70 Zuiko zoom truely new? Possibly. Regardless, it has quickly
become one of my favourite lenses, despite its handling quirks (awkward
focusing with standard screens; visibly dimmer image when aperture ring not
set on f3.5 at focal lengths other than 35mm; rotating front element), and
it now constitutes one of my "micro" travelling sets (one body, the 35-70
zoom, lenshood, filters, ERC).
-- from Cy in the UK
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