Have you ever purchased anything at ebay?

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Approximately 2 weeks ago, I've registered ebay what is the biggiest online market place in the world. To be a member of ebay, I've opened an account with paypal (international credit card was required) and was waited 4 business days to be confirmed. After all these boring procedures I could be an ebayer. The reason, as you know, why I started using ebay is to buy a camera, lenses, filters and so on at a price. There are a great number of sellers and buyers, so a lot of almost every goods on the face of the world that those can be traded legally are being sold and purchased, therefore, I'm able to buy something what I want to have at a price.

The logo of ebay

The procedures of purchasing an item at ebay is very interesting and reasonable. If I found an item in the middle of the list, I ascertain the seller's feedbacks. If he or she had many positive feedbacks (in many cases, they're power sellers), I bid for the item. In my opinion, this bidding system is one of the reasons what has made ebay is the biggiest online market place in the world. A price of an item is made by demands of buyers. If nobody wants to buy that, its price will be zero because nobody will buy this item. But, if any person bid for this item, the price will reflect the demand. There are elaborate procedures to bid for an item, however, what I'd like to say you is that it is a reasonable pricing system. It perfectly reflects the law of demand and supply.

Another factor to attract people is feedbacks. After a transaction, buyer and seller share feedbacks. Actually feedback system is made to inform somebody whether this ebayer is good or not. However, in my case, I felt I was playing a RPG game like diablo II or world of warcraft. I traded items and was leveled up by feedbacks. If a person has many positive feedbacks, he or she will receive some advantages, so I felt ebay was similar to RPG games. Receving a positive feedback is very pleasant.

At the conclusion of, ebay has really reasonable bidding system and many factors to make transaction more interesting. If you haven't used Ebay yet, just try and be careful not to be an ebay addict or you will have a lot of goods and an empty wallet. :)

I'm going mad about camera.

Actually I hadn't been interested in photography before I lost my digital camera when I was in Kaosan, Bangkok. I had uesed Nikon Coolpix 2500. It was a really well made point&shoot camera, so I had been able to use it happily and never thought about buying a new camera. However, after I've came back to Korea, a camera was needed. I didn't want to buy a new camera and frankly speaking I didn't have enough money to buy a new one. Suddenly that there was my father's old film camera flashed on me. I rushed at the cabinet and found Canon G3 Ql-17. It is a beautiful rangefinder. It's about 30 years old. I was fallen in love with it at the first glance. That was just a beginning of passion for classic cameras and photography.


Canon Canonet G3 QL-17 (http://www.cameraquest.com/canql17.htm)

I started to study photography because I didn't know how to control manual cameras and wanted to take a wonderful picture with my camera. It was hard to understand exposure, f stops, framing, guide number and so on. But the fact that I could not only shoot a snapshot but also take a photogragh was fascinating!

As I've studied more and more photography, I'm wanting to buy a SLR camera, various lenses, filters, etc. To tell the truth, I've purchased 1 lense and lot of filters at Ebay. Furthermore, I'm bidding for other lenses, flash, motor drive and accessaries. I will buy a SLR camera with standard 50mm 1:1.4 lense tomorrow. This is what I want to buy.


Minolta X-700 (http://www.rokkorclub.net/)

I've spent a lot of time and money (app. $300) but I'm happy because I will be able to study, practice photography more and take fantastic photographs of my girlfriend, family, friends and beautiful landscapes. What an exciting hobby to enjoy, isn't it?

I was a very selfish person... I'm sorry..

Sometimes I can not endure some feelings like an anger. Of course, generally I am able to control my feelings well like the others. Also, I know that there's no person who perfectly controls his or her feelings.

But, in my case, when I am really angry, I make the others whom I love sad or angry. I don't want to make them sad, however, sometimes I behave badly to them. They aren't related with my anger directly or indirectly. Just because of the fact that they are my family or my girlfriend, I express my anger cynically to them.

Yes, I know well that they love me, so I behave like that to be consoled by their love like a child. I always regret heartily behaving like that and making them sad. That's true it's too late to regret after making them sad or disappointed.

Yesterday, I made my family sad. Today, I make my girlfriend sad again. It will be taken much more time for me to be a man. But I will endeavor hard to be a man who has an warm-hearted mind and makes them whom I love happy.

I love you. I am sorry...

Thesedays...

I haven't done anything. There's no reason why I didn't anything. Just, just did I want to have a break from everything? I don't know. Actually latta things are waiting for me to be done. I have to prepare 3 exams to get licenses that those will help me to get a job in the future.

But, thesedays I lost myself. I haven't read any book for 3 weeks!! oh my... I must wake up. There's no time for me to be killed. Fortunately, I just made my blog. This will be my first step to restart my life. I will try hard to jot my story down here everyday (a kind of diary) whether anyone will read this or not, and that will be a sign what present that I live diligently.