I have been searching and searching for a spare part to a camera of mine but with no luck on ebay (the place where such oddities usually appear) I resigned myself to the fact that it would not emerge and have since gone to order the part new from a local shop (for local people). the part in question, as new, costs £40. ok, so its not going ot break the bank but for what its worth its a bit of a pain in the *rse. and today I notice a battery on a different camera has given up the ghost so I look on abay, once more, for said battery type - as I know you can get some great battery deals on ebay. I find it, great! and its for two as a 'buy it now' offer incl. postage...out of curiosity I check the seller's other items as it says 'camera direct brighton'. only to my shock do I see the part I've been searching for all this time sitting there for (at current bid) a fiverso I'm slightly agrivated as I know for a fact I typed in the name of the item as displayed in the title bar. I even checked by typing its name into the ebay item search bar and it came up as one of those auto-fill entries, indicating I had entered it on an earlier occasion.
so, mr.ebay search engine...you're useless for foinding specific items. its not the first time its happened incidentally, been looking at various lenses but it still sucks when I've been looking for something and bought a part then to find it at last after the fact...
oh and about getting a lens, found a really good one on offer with a 'buy it now' price and also £200 less to start a bid for the item. I knew that the buy it now price was fantastic and any bidding would push it way over budget. I mulled it over for not even a minute coming reasonably swiftly to the conclusion that its a blinder of a deal if I got it at teh offered non-bid price'...when I went back to the item some utter cretin had put a bid in! and within about 3hrs the price of the item shot past the 'buy it now' offer - a price I was prepared to pay as it was such a good deal, it finally went some £400-450 over the price I could have bought it straight away as.... i hate it when people don't think about the bids they make. clearly anyone with half a mind and knowledge of the product would have known that such an item
also kicking myself for not acting faster I suppose.
will have to scour the auctions a bit more I guess, but with the search engine being incredibly finiky about what it shows you god knows how I'm gong to get lucky....![]()


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so I'm slightly agrivated as I know for a fact I typed in the name of the item as displayed in the title bar. I even checked by typing its name into the ebay item search bar and it came up as one of those auto-fill entries, indicating I had entered it on an earlier occasion.
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