{"id":8216,"date":"2006-05-01T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/canon-50mm-ef-macro-lens-for-sale\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:26","slug":"canon-50mm-ef-macro-lens-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/canon-50mm-ef-macro-lens-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon 50mm EF Macro Lens For Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I put my macro lens up for sale on eBay. Hopefully I&#8217;ll net just over $400 after I sell it.<\/p>\n<p>On top of my grey market question from previously, is there any reason you all can see not to buy a refurb lens? I can get the lens in question (the <a href=\"http:\/\/consumer.usa.canon.com\/ir\/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&#038;fcategoryid=155&#038;modelid=11156\">Canon EF-S 60mm f\/2.8 Macro USM<\/a>) for $299 refurbished, $379 grey market, or $384 new. I&#8217;m really thinking I should go with the $299 refurb one, as that&#8217;s a <em>huge<\/em> savings. The lens hood will add another $27 or so, but that&#8217;s all right.<\/p>\n<p>The auctions I&#8217;ve posted can be seen at the following two URLs, which will become active after 10:00pm EDT and 10:30pm EDT respectively:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=7615508805\">Canon EF 50mm f\/2.5 Compact Macro &#8212; LIKE NEW 50<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=7615509521\">Canon Life-Size Converter EF &#8211; Like New! Macro 50mm 50<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If any of you would like to buy either of these pieces, please let me know before the auctions start so that I can cancel them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I put my macro lens up for sale on eBay. Hopefully I&#8217;ll net just over $400 after I sell it. On top of my grey market question from previously, is there any reason you all can see not to buy a refurb lens? I can get the lens in question (the Canon EF-S 60mm\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-8216","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\/8216","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=8216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13413,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions\/13413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}