Originally Posted by nemo7777777
John Vasco, you got this very interesting 110 picture at such a low price, simply because you did your homework in Ebay and because the big bidders, who have probably more money than time, haven't simply copy-pasted the auction numbers from Ed's listings in Esteal or Gixen, with an unbeatable bid. But obviously, if it's not a problem for you that good pictures cannot be bought anymore at a fair price with a little bit of research in Ebay, it's probably because you seem to have special access to these "first-class" pics. Why is it so hard to admit it? After all, everybody here is defending one's little piece of meat. The guys in the "system" have interest that the best pics fall into this big mysterious collection, because they can access it; the guys outside the "system" have interest to be still able to find from time to time interesting pics, that havent't been noticed and managed by this "system". And the difference is obvious: the past week, I bought at reasonable prices some very interesting pics, which would have been otherwise much too expansive to buy for the normal editorial project of a normal guy. By the way, I know that all this is perfectly legal, that in a liberal system the "big pockets" guys can buy what they want, but in the end you got a monopolistic system, what is not liberal in any way. Once again, I'm thinking to these aviation reviews, which can pay 30-50 euros for a pic, but in no way 300 for a good one. And the result of this "de facto" monopolistic system, is that all these great pics cannot be seen anywhere in print, except for a few exceptions. And I dont' even speak of scans of these pics on aviation forums. Finally, I ask myself too why the sellers continue to put their pics on Ebay, as it would be probably much more interesting to make direct deals with these "big pockets" guys. That's why auction professionals, in the domain of arts or collection cars, don't like that kind of system, because in the end it kills the market.
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