Hey you rat bastard! How much are you selling it for? I may want to trade up from my D30 for the AF improvement alone (if I recall of the top of my head it is much improved over the horrendous D30, no?).

Anyhew, shoot me an email if you have a “sell it now” price or something. I can’t promise anything, but I am interested :) I spoze I could always bid on it ;)

Ok, I put in my bid. Isn’t my $250 enough to exceed your “buy it now” price? ;)

competely random, but i am interested in learning some more about photography. i have tried some lighting techniques, angles, and perspectives, with my digital camera, but i want to progress beyond the point-and-shoot phase. my father has an old SLR camera lying around and has agreed to let me “play around with it”. any books that you would recommend for a beginner like myself?

you should add to the description that the camera did also nice pictures of Aline and Laura while in Antibes :-)

the 10d is a horrible camera to sell privately. people are still routinely paying more than $1400 for it — used — on ebay!

I do have two more auctions up, for D60s. Those would be cheaper. :)

So I won the 10D for $450!? LOL :)

OK. Now I have a psycho guy who won’t stop calling. This is how it happened:

1) he e-mailed me about the 10D and wanted to talk about the camera
2) i gave him my phone number (my cell, since it’s my only number now)
3) he called. we chatted for 20 minutes about all things photography. he asked many questions — and then asked the same ones again. i gave him an informal offer (price).
4) he calls again, but i am busy. he calls again. and again. calls about 10 times between 9am and 11:45pm. at this point, i am no longer interested in selling the camera to him, and am not interested in talking to him.
5) i send him e-mail: i’m not selling the camera to you. stop calling. it’s rude.
6) he keeps calling (leaves maybe 2 VMs per 5-6 calls)
7) i send him another e-mail: stop calling. you’re being rude. i’m not selling to you BECAUSE you keep calling.

he just called me twice.

what the FUCK. YEs. this behavior warrants swearing.

what can I do to make him stop?

well, apparently, I have no business ethics. he just told me that via e-mail.

The first time we talked, we chatted for 30 minutes, and in the end I said, “well, here’s the deal. (deal specifics here). think about it, and call me back.”

He took that as, “I have given you a guarantee that i will sell the camera to you.” So he bought a 28-135 lens (which I had recommended as a good starter lens).

Now he has accused me to “luring” him into the deal and causing him to buy an expensive lens.

Please! I’m done with him. It’s not a done deal until you pay, OR until BOTH PARTIES agree on the deal in a sort of virtual handshake. We had no handshake.

Anyway, his e-mail is blocked, and if he calls again, I’ll have to take action to “discourage” him from calling again.

Let me guess you’re going to upgrade to: Canon EOS-1D Mark II

$1,410.03 !!! I think Vienna’s blessing on the camera helped. :)