What's this "mint" nonsense?
"R. Peters" wrote in message om... I've bought about 5 or 6 zoom lenses off eBay--for my own use or as gifts--that were claimed to be in "excellent" condition. 3 of the bunch had to go in for repair. Bought a Canon 100mm f2.8 FD lens "excellent condition"...it arrived with no diaphragm!!! Did get a refund, but incurred $15 in postage for nothing. eBay batting average: about 50%. eBay enables anyone to go to a garage sale, pick up an item for $5, throw it on eBay and dump it. You don't have to know what it is or that the reason it was $5 was that it was broken. Sign of a problem: "I don't know what this is, but it works great." As to "mint": You can sell an item that most people would call mint. However, some buyers will take a 10X loupe and spend 3 hours looking for ANY sign of use--just to prove you wrong. So why bother calling it mint. Call it Exc+ and let the buyer be pleasantly surprised. r. I agree with your observations, and also agree that people do dump stuff that they get at garage sales, but no more so than what seems to happen on this forum. It was my experience with (photo.net) in trying to be a good netizen and taking my ads off if the item was not bringing any responses, or responses that were insulting duet to a super low offer when in fact offers were not requested. So what happens I along with a host of others get spammed by the clowns at (photo.net) due to what appears to be my volume selling when in fact nothing has sold. There is no difficult answer to the question of honesty, just treat others the way you wish they would treat you. Sorry to hear of your misfortune. |
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