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Stuart Reid
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 720
From: Worthing, West Sussex, UK
Registered: Feb 2009

posted July 12, 2018 01:35 PM

Look at this annoying ebay post. Flogging a bunch of films, says he's no idea what's on them as he is selling them for a neighbour. Well firstly, why not ask the neighbour?! Secondly, LOOK AT THE LEADERS! Oh and thirdly, the impression is that he's already flogged a load of these, so God knows if separate reels of the same film get shipped off to different people! So annoying! https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F123241437947

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Maurice Leakey
Film God

Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted July 12, 2018 02:43 PM

And the accompanying photographs are no help either.

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Maurice

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Stuart Reid
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 720
From: Worthing, West Sussex, UK
Registered: Feb 2009

posted July 12, 2018 02:58 PM

Maurice, do you think people are getting dumber?

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Tom Photiou
Film God

Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003

posted July 12, 2018 04:30 PM

well well, i guess the dumb ones would be those who bid, you know me, i had to ask the seller,(who, it has to be said, does have good feedback), here is what ive asked, if i get a reply i wil let you know,

Hello there,
i may be interested in these,
are you able to look at the leaders to see what is written on them, this may give an idea of content.
i can see something written on some of them so hoping you may be able to let me know
regards,

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Nantawat Kittiwarakul
Master Film Handler

Posts: 280
From: Rajburana, Bangkok, Thailand
Registered: Aug 2017

posted July 12, 2018 09:02 PM

Thinking on the bright side,sometimes you might get "treasures" from this kind of sellers.

(A bit unrelated to films but hey...)
Recently I saw a professional hdv tape vcr (Sony HVR-M25,to name it) at local garage sales. The seller had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what it is,only knowing that it still fires up,but untested,and that's it. [Roll Eyes]

Since the asking price was only about 78$,so I decided to took the gamble.After bargain I eventually end up taking it home at just 58$.
Guess what? It turned out to be FULLY FUNCTIONAL. If I throw it up on Ebay I might get a few hundred $'s from it,but decided to keep it - might be useful to me in the future.

BTW still had absolutely no idea how this pricey piece ended up there? [Confused]