Suspicious ebay deals

[Rhys]

I was looking at one of those ebay auctions, thinking idly about a T2/M42 mount 90 - 100 mm prime lens.

I saw a nice-looking Soviet Volna lens. It's described as "mint" but I can see the marks where somebody not too handy with a screwdriver has dismantled it.

I looked at the seller's rating - fairly high but too many withdrawn ratings, neutral ratings and negative ratings.

I especially liked the fact he doesn't use paypal but uses his own alternate system of payment.... Seems to scream fraud - even more so since he's from Ukraine.

What do you lot think?

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&catref=C6&from=R40&satitle=macro+screw&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&a25563=-24&a41840=-24&a14=-24&a41842=-24&a10244=-24&alist=a25563%2Ca41840%2Ca14%2Ca42078%2Ca41842%2Ca1 0244&pfmode=1&reqtype=1&gcs=1826&pfid=2595&pf_query=macro+screw&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=29210&sabfmts=1&saobfmts=insif&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1

[Mark_48]

Any reason to not consider extension tubes with a good M42 mount glass? For a long time I had used a bellows with Takumar lenses on my old Spotmatics and this worked well. I won't mount the bellows to the DSLR's figuring it would pretty much be a dust pump...

Mark.....

[Rhys]

Actually that's a good point. I might invest in another prime lens at some point.