On Mon, January 3, 2011 15:49, Don Roberts wrote: > The fact they are discontinued means that the price should be much more > favorable on eBay whee I bought mine. Could be, but could be the reverse. There may be a lot of people wanting to get into scanning just now. A lot of the listings on Ebay are above the list price it had when it was available new (and one optimist has a buy-it-now price on the combination of the 5000 ED and the stack feeder of $4200; I paid $1500 for mine new from B&H). I should try to hurry through my scanning and see if I can get in on this price bubble while it lasts :-). (Nope, not going to happen; too many thousands of negatives I'm not prepared to abandon yet. Maybe I can catch the NEXT bubble!) > Older items still can have a lot of value. Certainly they can, as witness collector Leicas from long enough ago :-). On the other hand, I sold my Coolscan LS-2000 for $62.50 (in non-working condition, by that point). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
