Well, here is the latest. I lost out on the particular item I was bidding on. Some "bright" person bid $540 and got it. My limit was $470.
The funny thing is that this a Canon G3 digital camera, which has been discontinued in favor of the newer G5. The only real difference is that the G3 is 4 megapixels and the G 5 is 5 megs. Prices are dropping daily because photo-shops are trying to get rid of the G3's
I just checked and as of today, the lowest online price for the G3 is $445. The auction deal included a 256 mb flash memory card worth about $80. This brought the value of the auction deal to about $525 US.
The dufus who won the auction, did so by paying fifteen bucks more than the lowest retail on-line price available. Add to that the fact that 20 other bidders including myself wasted 2 days of our time tracking this fabulous (not!)bargain. I was also tracking 3 more auctions of the same camera and they all sold for more than the current retail price too.
As usual, the only winner in this deal was E-bay, and it also points out that they have no moron filters. There may be good deals on E-bay but this item just doesn't qualify
I would start jump into another auction, but it's
just not worth the hassle for a standard item with an over abundant supply.
I just placed my order direct. Screw all those bidding geniuses on E-bay.
Cheers
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