Pro Slide Copier on ebay

I am trying to find out if anyone has used the Pro Slide Copiers shown on ebay and get an opinion.
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZspecphotoQ2edotQ2dcom

 

Rubbish!!! Get yourself the real deal. These crappy items might "copy" a
slide but they sure as hell don't give you the sharpness to enlarge the
shot!

 

It is a useless POS that sold new for 39.95 and was worth less that 25
cents. Everyone bought one of these at one time or another and then put them
in thier next garage sale for somewhere around 10 bucks. They continue to
make the rounds to this very day. I was once at a photo club auction (ie a
REAL auction) and there were five of them from different people. Not one got
a single bid - I assume they eventually went into the trash where they
belong.

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I am trying to find out if anyone has used the Pro Slide Copiers shown on
ebay and get an opinion.
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZspecphotoQ2edotQ2dcom

 

I tried a similar home made rig & got reasonable results. It's not going
to be as good as scanning on a device intended for that but the
advantage is you could convert over a collection of 100s of
family/vacation type shots much quicker than using a scanner. Especially
if your intended use is just to make small prints, display on the web or
TV etc and you don't need much resolution. But this is not the way to go
for making 8x10 prints.

Also those prices look to be about 150% of what I've seen elsewhere.

 

I do not know when it will ever get put up for sale, and I do not know the specifics of the device (I can get it on Wed. next week) but the Studio that I work
in part time has a(this is what I was told) $15,000 (might have been $10,000, my memory has never been really good) Slide replicator that is 10 years old, and
has never been used (not once), The owner of the studio is planning on selling it, and has already photographed it and I will post the images somewhere and send
a link possibly wed, maybe not till Thursday. It looks very similar to a standard Dark Room Enlarger, as in it is a vertical standing device of roughly 3 to 4
feet in height, made of what I am presuming to be steel (yes I have seen it) and from what I have seen of it, I believe it supports up to 4x5" transparencies.
I have not been able to find a value on it, for the current market, as of yet, but after I do She should sell it.

 

You know that e-bay was a good thing until the crooks started listing
hundreds of items on the regular listings taking up several pages at a time
with the same item over and over. It makes finding a listing from a
independent person harder and harder shifting through all the crap. Just
type in a Canon 20D looking for someone that wants to sell his at a somewhat
discount. The N Y Camera back door shops are taking it over. It should be a
requirement that if there is more than a few of the same item they should
have to set up an e-bay store to list all their items on.

 

I appreciate all the replies to my question about the slide copier. I don't think that is the way to go. Thank you.
I am trying to find out if anyone has used the Pro Slide Copiers shown on ebay and get an opinion.
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZspecphotoQ2edotQ2dcom