I am a photojournalist and publish 4 online magazines. Selling on eBay since 1984, sales to date $450,000+. I sell a variety of items on eBay and have written a number of seller and buyer guides. My feedback and 5 Stars tells my story best.
Missing items in order and lack of communication. Took weeks to ship original order with zero response to inquires. Promised to ship missing items and it has been well over a month with zero communication. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH!!!!!!!!
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Item received. Thanks.
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More than a year ago
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WILL BUY AGAIN
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Thank you for the quick and easy transaction. Great buyer!
(500 pc) 7 Mil Military Card Hot Laminating Pouches 2-5/8 x 3-7/8 by LAM-IT-ALL
Jan 29, 2018
Nice product, should have ordered the 10 Mil However
This is a nice product, but a little on the light side for my use. I should have ordered the 10 Mil since I use this for ID cards. Good value and as good as any I have used in the past.
Mar 31, 2006
Kodak's New P880 vs Older Olympus C-5050
Coming from an Olympus C-5050 which is built like a tank and has a fast f1.8 lens and a pull out rear LCD screen (so I could shoot low shots), I felt the new Kodak P880 would be a step up.
I had the Olympus for 3 years now and wanted a camera with more zoom then the 3X I had on the Olympus. Since I travel to exotic places, the 3X was just not powerful enough to get me close. I had tested the Nikon D50 with the supplied lens and for the price thought it was a great camera, but was holding out for the next generation Nikon. I caught an add for the Kodak P880 on the Costco web site and thought I would give it a try.
The Kodak sells for around $530 street price all over and Costco had it with a $100 special discount at $400 even. I couldn't resist and ordered one and put my Olympus up on eBay for sale. After all, it has a Schneider Kreuznach lens and a 24-140mm zoom lens which is a 6 to 1 zoom. It has a huge 2.5" LCD screen (the resolution was quite poor) and 8 MP sensor that enables this camera to produce sharp prints up to 11X17 or larger. At $400 how can you go wrong, after all it is Kodak's Professional quality camera...so I thought.
Although there are some nice features and the reviews I read talk about the sharp, color saturated images, it was lacking in a few areas. First issue I had was the body construction. It is a plastic body and does not appear to be as solid or rugged as the Olympus or the Nikon D50. It looked and felt like a cheap plastic camera. The resolution on the rear LCD is quite poor and although you can switch your image view from the rear screen to the electronic viewfinder, not being an optical VF like the Olympus meant poor image quality so focusing is a problem especially for eye glass users.
When focusing in manual mode you can select an enlarged center square in your eyepiece which is supposed to make focusing easier, but it is so pixelated, that it is annoying and not helpful at all. If you leave the auto focus on in their default mode, you can hear the focus motor constanly running. I thought I had a repair issue, until I did a web search, and found out that this was indeed the camera's normal operation. I was able to disable this "constant focus" feature and set it to focus when I applied pressure to the shutter button, as is the case with most cameras.
The flash is not a pop up automatic flash, you need to lift it up to activate it and must change the flash settings on the camera. The zoom is like a traditional SLR and you zoom manually. Unlike most point and shoot cameras with motorized zooms this camera operates like a SLR.
The menu is great on this camera and well thought out. Easy to use, easy to adjust any feature and with all the buttons on the camera, I found this a plus indeed. Unlike some camera, you really won't do well shooting with an ISO over 200 or 400 max because of the increased noise (we call this grain with film) so forget low light photography.
It takes the SD Media cards ONLY vs. the Olympus that took Compact Flash, Smart Media and XD cards. I have found shooting my eBay items difficult with the P880, because of the poor resolution on the LCD screen. I couldn't tell if my Macro shots were sharp or not until I got them to my computer. The final image it takes are great sharp, but the negatives on this camera far out weigh the positives and I returned it promptly to Costco and purchased the Nikon D50 with two lenses, case and card for $799 which was a great deal.
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12" Bar Packaging Impulse Sealer Shrink Wrap System Machine Heat Seal Roller
Feb 06, 2016
Broke in a few months...
I originally wrote a positive review of this machine, but after a couple of months use the wire used to seal the shrinkwrap started to burn and smoke. After awhile it snapped. Replacing it was impossible without pulling the entire unit apart since the bolt that holds the new wire is down at the end of the arm and you can't get a screw driver in to remove or replace it.
Once you take the cover off, good luck. There are very thin wires that go to the heat dial and the wire is quite short and will tear off unless you have someone holding the cover as you attempt the wire replacement.
I contacted the company who told me they are no longer handling the unit, so I can only assume many people had the same issue. I now have a non working unit and may just buy a sealer and use this to hold the roll of wrap.
Oh one other thing, the photo shows a wire that has the eyelets on each side, what you get is just a short roll of single strand wire and loose eyelets so you have to guess at the length you need, attach the eyelets with a crimping tool and then try to install it. Final complaint no instructions at all...you are on your own with this one.