Wow!!!

Looks like there may be some inexperienced bidders here. Wouldn't be surprised if it exploded at the end...
 
Love to know who owned this? Some US Airforce items in the sellers shop. I bet there is a great story behind this fantastic old camera. How many Nikon 1's are known to exist?
 
Only a few hundred were made and as I understand they were not exported from Japan because of the goofy pseudo 135 format
 
The last second bidder again, with around $2000 jump. The buyer bought a vintage lens from another seller in the last hour, and lost the auction for another vintage lens from another seller...

I doubt the camera will ever be used again!
 
kutitta said:
The buyer bought a vintage lens from another seller in the last hour, and lost the auction for another vintage lens from another seller...

I doubt the camera will ever be used again!
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Perhaps the buyer bought another lens for it and will use it!
 
The prediction of 14,000 USD wasn't far off.

Did anyone look at the bid history ?

"Retracted: US $95,000.00"
"Explanation: Entered wrong amount"

Imagine you want to bid 9,500 USD and you accidentally type in 95,000 USD ![FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif] :eek:

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That was someone testing the highest proxy bid. Not an accident.

Jan Van Laethem said:
The prediction of 14,000 USD wasn't far off.

Did anyone look at the bid history ?

"Retracted: US $95,000.00"
"Explanation: Entered wrong amount"

Imagine you want to bid 9,500 USD and you accidentally type in 95,000 USD ![FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif] :eek:

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This is the only really convincing (to me) reason to wait till the end to bid. Most of the arguments I've heard in favor of waiting utterly fail to persuade me. But ebay's bid retraction policy sucks. A retracted high bid can reveal the maximum bid of everyone who's bid before -- information that will affect the final outcome of the auction and information that ebay claimed, when the bid was made, would be kept confidential. Yet ebay policy does not allow one to retract a bid as a result of that. But it does let one retract a bid if one "entered the wrong amount" even though there is a bid confirmation screen that shows you your maximum bid amount so entering the wrong amount is really extreme culpable carelessness. So e-bay's policy allows careful honest bidders to be jerked around by dishonest sellers because someone might be foolish enough to enter the wrong amount and then confirm it in good faith.

It's difficult to make auction rules that can't be gamed, but I really think ebay would do better to eliminate bid retractions for entering the wrong amount altogether and should allow bid retractions when the seller cancels someone else's high bid. Until it does that, then yeah -- bidding in the last few minutes is really the better strategy.

I Love Film said:
That was someone testing the highest proxy bid. Not an accident.
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JHutchins said:
This is the only really convincing (to me) reason to wait till the end to bid. Most of the arguments I've heard in favor of waiting utterly fail to persuade me.
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The reason to bid at the last second, is so that people who get emotionally tied to the auction and the associated adrenaline rush do not have time to react.

Pick the max amount you want to bid, and bid at the last second.

If you bid days early, ebay will send out emails to everyone (even texts if the accounts are set up for that) telling the other bidders that they've been outbid.

Assume that all your fellow bidders are inexperienced and liable to up their bid based on these notices...

If you look at this particular auction, you'll see a 37 feedback and a 107 feedback (relatively low numbers) who bid up to 4 hours before the auction ended...multiple times!
 
Not wanting to start a fight but every time I've sold things on eBay, and I'm talking leica m6ttl and a few lenses plus other stuff, I've allways struggled to make a fair price, I know that none of it was rare, mint, collectible, just good honest usable equipment and it's sold for the absolute lowest reserve that I've put on, I allways start with 99p bid and put a reserve and sometimes I've failled to make that and had to relist.
To be honest I feel eBay is now less of an auction site and more a shop window with more and more people just listing with buy it now over and over till something sells, I've seen this with lots of cameras, in fact I'm watching several that have b.i.n. that have been listed at least 3 times (most with 30 day auctions).
 
E-bay was never a real auction. What actioneer would hammer an item after 5 seconds and not give the other bidders time to respond? There should be at least 60 seconds for responses after any bid.
 
Back in the 50s and 60s Modern Photography published an annual used camera guide. I used to drool over the things that I someday hoped to be able to afford. If I remember correctly, cameras like this were going for like $60 then, but I couldn't understand why someone would buy a 24x32mm format camera when an S2 was a "real" 24x36.
 
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