Buying a dvx on ebay

Well..... at 3:20 PM (Mountain Time), the dogs next door starting pitching a fit.... announcing the arrival of the big brown UPS truck.

As expected, my shiny new DVX-100B was being delivered......

Thanks to Andrew Hoffman and Spec-comm.com......... I got what I paid for last Thursday. (See the message above in this same thread for details...)

Good communication... no nonsense.....2nd Day Air shipping for something like $13.... Spec-Comm gets a positive feedback. Oh, wait a minute, this isn't e-Bay!

Thanks Andrew!

-Taylor Collins
 
So what i'm hearing is that you can save $600 by buying a dvx on ebay if you don't mind not having a year warranty. But you should use the extra cash to invest in some good lenses and a tripod, because the accessories you can get from sunshineelectric and jandkcameras aren't worth it.

As far as the manfrotto tripod idea, I guess they're a good tripod (i've never used one), but if I'm having a problem coming up with $2500 for a dvx, and i'm buying grey so i can afford a century optics lens, i'm probably not going to spend $600 on a tripod.
 
I bought a barely used camera from a guy who originally bought his on EBay from Empire Digital (E&R Electronics). I have his receipt. He bought it in January. I was scoping out the cameras on EBay at that time and know that Empire Digital was selling them for a really cheap price. But he got pressured into buying a high capacity battery for $150 and a 3 year ext warranty for $335. So the total came out to almost $500 more than advertised. I've read that that's normal. I've even called a few places off EBay before I found this camera -- if you don't want to buy the packaged deals, they'll tell you they don't have the camera in stock (even though it says it is on line).

The camera itself is great. The tripod, etc aren't things you'd spend money on really, although the tripod is cool for setting up lights and things but not for your camera. The case is nice. The lens -- haven't tried it, don't expect to. Cheap lenses usually aren't worth the weight. The extra battery works but I don't plan on using the 3 year warranty because there is no way I'm sending my camera to Empire Digital with the hope that it'll come back fixed if something ever happened to it.
 
Yup, something pretty similar happened when I bought my FX1 off ebay from Digital Corp. Ended up paying $200 more than expected for the "made in Japan" version and a high capacity battery. Not too bad but the battery casing cracked after six months of use.
 
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