What kind of fool am I?

[steamer]

The other night while drinking sweet potato liquor (shochu) it seemed real important to know what the reserve on this item was:

http://photography.search.ebay.com/...QfrppZ25QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQsacatZ625QQsassZekc

Nobody has bid on this item since then. I need this camera set up like a hole in the head, if some kindly e-boy bidder doesn't snake me at the last moment as almost always happens, it will be mine. I am curious if this set is actually worth a grand.
If anyone knows please tell me.
Steve

 

[dexdog]

not being a nikonian, like some RFF folks (brian sweeney, among others), I think that this looks like a decent buy at $1K.

 

[dadsm3]

Sweet potato liquor...is that like vodka, but orange?

 

[FrankS]

I was wondering too! 🙂

 

[jaapv]

My kind of fool..... But do you have space in your cupboard for all this?

 

[steamer]

No room in the dry box and it's been raining so much my shoes are growing mold. As for the shochu, the kind I was drinking is about 50 proof, is made from Thai rice and southern Japanese white sweet potatoes. It looks like Vodka but there is a subtle earthy taste of sweet potatoes. It is dangerous stuff because it goes down easy but it doesn't mix well with on-line auctions.

 

[butch]

I'm no expert on Nikon rangefinders but I think it is a good deal. For verification go to Sandy Ritz's classic and colectable cameras or Pacific Rim. Pick out comperables and maybe deduct 60% for what a dealer used to pay. With the decline of film that may or may not work in today's market The variable VF alone usually fetches over $130.00.

 

[NIKON KIU]

Nikon S with lens $400-$500
3.5cm 2.5 $200-$300
13.5cm f3.5 $75-$150
other goodies(finder,cases,filters...) $100-$200
TO OWN A NIKON RF COLLECTION WITH THE ORIGINAL BILL OF SALE:
PRICE-LESS
KIU

 

[Nikon Bob]

It still has a day to go so hang onto your hat and see what it finishes at. It should be interesting at the very least.

 

[steamer]

Thanks Comrades for your replies. I had a feeling the set was worth about 800 to 1000. I find some solace in the fact that never in the 400 year history of e-boy
has an auction finished without a bid being made in the last 12 seconds.

Of course owning a set like that is not exactly a fate worse than death, it's just that I am not a collector and owning the original bill of sale doesn't mean much to a Phillistine like me. One more day--

 

[kully]

I know exactly how you feel, I bid, drunk, four days before the end of the auction. My credit card cried until about the 12s before the auction you mention and I was over-joyed.

Good-luck!

 

[steamer]

Well I'm off to bed, 10 and a half hours until the moment of truth, still no one has made a move. It will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow,
Steve

 

[NIKON KIU]

I have a feeling its yours!
Kiu

 

[steamer]

A fool and his money ...

A fool and his money ...

I have a feeling its yours!
Kiu

Kiu you are psychic, I have now paid a grand for 600-800 bucks worth of camera gear, :bang: nothing left to do but enjoy it,
Steve

 

[butch]

Want some or all of your money back?

 

[steamer]

Yo Butch
As the parking lot crack sellers of my twisted youth used to say watchuwant?

 

[oftheherd]

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As for the shochu, the kind I was drinking is about 50 proof, is made from Thai rice and southern Japanese white sweet potatoes. It looks like Vodka but there is a subtle earthy taste of sweet potatoes. It is dangerous stuff because it goes down easy but it doesn't mix well with on-line auctions.

Anything like Korean SoJu? That used to go well at the po-jang-maja, with oysters on the half shell when I was last in Korea.

Congrats on your purchase. I think.

 

[steamer]

Yes I think shochu is a direct decendant of soju, they say it won't give you a hangover but I know today that's a lie (ouch). I'm kinda glad now that I bought the Nikon set up, but I probably wouldn't have bid that much if it wasn't for the noble sweet potato. Photo shows the site of last night's potato fest.

 

[steamer]

Nobody's fool

Nobody's fool

Well the S-kit showed up today. After all that whining and sniveling it was love at first sight. The glass looks like it should be in a museum. The S body looks great too and seems to be in fine mechanical shape. It felt like Xmas unwrapping all that good stuff. This kit is a keeper, so from now I'm a member of the Nikon cult and all's well that ends well. If it doesn't rain tomorrow I will take it out and put it through its paces.
Steve