How not to sell your item on eBay...

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  1. David Shouksmith

    David Shouksmith India Founder Member

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    Sorry to post links to live auctions but I can't see that anyone here would be seriously interested in buying these...

    Here, here and here. There may be other examples currently on offer...
     
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    I must have failing eyesite... Everything's going dark... I need a beer....
     
  3. David Shouksmith

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    You and me both, George!

    Maybe the photographer had already partaken/over-imbibed... :lol:
     
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    You've got it all wrong David, this is Art Photography!!! :D/ :lol: People are willing to pay lotsa money to buy this type of photographs... :roll:

    All the best,

    Wim
     
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    Take a photo of two plastic buckets, give it a title and it becomes one of "ten important photographic works". - Link

    "There is the sense of a searching use of the camera and an openness to the potentially infinite pictorial possibilities of what is around him. Colour is integral to the ways in which his photography opens up new and unexpected ways of depicting aspects of the everyday and ordinary. This is beautifully brought out in this picture of two plastic buckets, and the way it concentrates us on the subtle shifts in tones of blue between them."

    WTF. Honestly, I'm not making this up! :roll: :roll: :roll: This is what happens when we let people go to university and take art degrees.

    Terry
     
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    And wasn't it wonderful that the BBC brings it to our attention? Wonderful News!!!!
     
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    Hi

    If they were the "important artworks" I would shudder to think what any of the other ones produced would be like!

    Regards, Jeremy
     
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    Brings tears to the eyes!
     
  9. george

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    Tears to your eyes, huh? Just like when your underwear is too tight?
     
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    What is underwear?
     
  11. Gneiss

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    I really wouldn't buy from anyone who couldn't even be bothered to take some reasonable pictures...

    God knows how the items would be packaged if you did buy them!

    Talking of eBay, I currently have an item for sale that still has 4 days 11 hours to run and already has 89 watchers... :shock:
     
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    Now up to 124 watchers with 10 hours to go... 8)
     
  13. paul m

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    Is the item lamp related?
     
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    No, not lamps, astromony...
     
  15. David Shouksmith

    David Shouksmith India Founder Member

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    Oh, yeah - fortune telling, signs of the zodiac and all that...
     
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    Maybe it's one of those glass balls that you see the future in
     
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    That is astrology, a swear word to an astronomer, we are interested in science.
     
  18. David Shouksmith

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    Ah, astronomy - with you now... ;)
     
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    Thank goodness for that, I would hate to be tarred with the philistine astrologers brush.
     
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    Yes, underwear... I think you call them "widefronts" over there.
     
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    Well, Y-fronts, anyway - although these days, most of 'em aren't... :roll: ](*,) :lol:
     
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    I,ll take that as a compliment. :lol:
     
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