{"id":8069,"date":"2006-02-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/22\/ebay-3\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:10","slug":"ebay-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/22\/ebay-3\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I know I&#8217;ve been spending a bit lately and otherwise rather busy, but I just received an email-based eBay alert for a particular camera lens I&#8217;ve been looking for. The Canon <a href=\"http:\/\/consumer.usa.canon.com\/ir\/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&#038;fcategoryid=155&#038;modelid=8121\">Life-Size Converter EF<\/a> is an add-on for my current macro lens, the <a href=\"http:\/\/consumer.usa.canon.com\/ir\/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&#038;fcategoryid=155&#038;modelid=7323\">EF 50mm f\/2.5 Compact Macro<\/a>, which allows it to focus at 1:1. Normally this lens is $249 or so, with it showing up at online retailers for around $225 grey market.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=7593057084\">the eBay auction for it<\/a> was listed at $150 Buy It Now, even though the lens regularly gets <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Canon-Life-Size-Converter-EF-like-new-Mint-Canon-EOS_W0QQitemZ7591580248QQcategoryZ30059QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\">bid up to over $180<\/a>. And this one has the soft case, too.<\/p>\n<p>So, basically, I ended up with the grey market lens and case for $165, shipped. Worst case, I should be able to re-sell it for at least what I paid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, the auction sounds pretty oddly listed, but we&#8217;ll see what comes up, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, while I was typing this I received a few notes through eBay from the seller&#8230; < shrug > Sounds good thus far&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I know I&#8217;ve been spending a bit lately and otherwise rather busy, but I just received an email-based eBay alert for a particular camera lens I&#8217;ve been looking for. The Canon Life-Size Converter EF is an add-on for my current macro lens, the EF 50mm f\/2.5 Compact Macro, which allows it to focus at\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13560,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069\/revisions\/13560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}