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Why would someone on the US mainland go on eBay and try to sell genuine Pentax M42 to K mount adapters at the same retail price, and same shipping cost, that Pentax sells them for? Does this person not understand that in this situation the prudent choice would be to buy directly from Pentax? Obviously, not. :/
But, what makes it worse is that the adapter up for sale is
USED! The seller is trying to sell a used adapter for the same price as a brand new, warrantied one, from Pentax. Then, they insult buyers further by giving them the option of making a Best Offer, including the option to send a note to the seller, but auto-declining the offers. I made two best offers, which I thought were fair offers given the adapter was used: $20 and $23, respectively. Both were automatically declined. That let me know that they had a certain price they were holding out for. My personal policy is that if I don't save more than $6, after shipping costs are added in, it's not a savings. Under $6 and I might as well pay full retail and get all the benefits that come with it.
Sorry for the rant, but it just irks me so much when sellers give a Best Offer option knowing they are intent on getting a certain price for their item. If you're not going to be reasonably flexible, it's just a waste of everyone's time.
Original Pentax M42 to PK Mount lens adpater Excellent - eBay (item 350366328507 end time Jul-12-10 09:03:31 PDT)