and I saw an ad "make 200$ daily"... so i clicked on it, since I dont make 200$ a day... i eneded up giving them 50$ for a how-to sign up for another site.... great eh? so then I went on ebay and looked up camcorders, since I want to start makign films again... I end up bidding on two different cameras, only to realise I only wanted the one, now ill probably get both...

*sigh*... dang it sometimes I ought to just not wake up at all....

theres another 500$ down the drain....

( at least I preyed on old cameras... hell if i woulda bought a new one (something I was also contemplating) I would max out both credit cards... again...


oh btw, i saw a new pdoc yesterday, hes great, after 2 hours with him he asked me straight out "what meds do you think you need, and what dosage?" i got struck by a pang of anxiety, my paranoia kicked in n felt he was trying to trap me, after a bit more coaxing I told him I'd want to try ritalin again, so I'm going to get 2x 10 mg a day to start.

you can cancel bids on ebay....

I can???

I have had people cancel bids on my auctions. I've personally never done it. Email them and ask them to please cancel it... some people will, I'm sure they'll understand. The person who has the auction can cancel them, and i believe that you can as well.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/questions/retract-bid.html

You can do a bid retration and as a reason, say you entered wrong amount in the drop down box. Easy as that.

i dont qualify,
with 55 minutes left, i doubt ill reach him

oh well, it'll be a second camera i guess. but its vhs, which is obsolite by today's stanards... and its only 100$

what kind is it? I was looking at some old canon ones and a nikon the other day.... SLR 35mm...... my better judgement got me though... and i decided i didn't NEED a new camera.....

i was outbid with 30 mins left... thank god
its a tv studio camera for film/tv.

the one I'm actually trying to get is an old panasonic, its 200$ and has comparable quality image to something worth 800-100$ today, and it has all the feautres of a 3000$ camera, since thats what it cost back in the day

LOL..that was a funny thread :-)
lucky you got outbid! I've done the same thing before :-)

yup, on both cameras actually... but im still in the hole 50$ from that stupid gimmick... oh well lol.. i saved a couple hundred by stupider people than me

I lucked out last summer and got a Pentax 35 mm motor drive beauty for only $50, autofocus, autoexposure, flip up flash, yahhoo.

Ten years ago it would have beeen way beyond my means ~drool, drool~ I'm glad I have it now because my digital bit the dust so I will use this until I can buy what I really need, a digital slr with highly sensitive ISO settings and replaceable lenses.

Getting back to impulse buying -- I subverted my shopping quest by decades of 2nd hand shopping. This has had the effect of lowering what I am willing to pay for things sharply downwards. I am no more likely to buy a $1200 sofa than a new lemon-yellow Lambourghini. A $25 T-shirt looks really overpriced to me. (Unless it has the Dust Rhinos on the front.) It was only last year that I finally got a credit card, with a low limit, for buying books and other essentials over the net.

Every day, fighting a holding action. Yay me.

Ducky

hey Ducky:) 35 mm cameras still give very impressive quality images, even compard to 2-3 thousand dollar digitals.
I ended up buying the one camera, a panasonic wv-6000, probably older than me, yet still produces something pretty. hopefully. when I get it and play with it a little, ill post links to the videos. it wil be 250$ with shipping, so i guess it could be alot worst

Got myself a simple Canon for realatively cheap R2300 ($330) and it has all the bells and whistles. Id like better lenses though, but the one feature witch is worth looking at is Image stabelizers.