Welcome Lance from a fellow Sydneysider

I am getting them also, Its called "Noise Bot" and they are advertising T-Shirts and Bags

Heres a link

Thats a bit harsh I have done quite well out of e-bay in the few years I have been using them, I have had couple of issues over that time and always found them to be professional and fair in thier dealings.

I believe it is never going to be 100% infalliable, but you accept that element of risk when you sign up to use them.

I recently had funds frozen in my Paypal account from a Chinese buyer who won my auction and immediately sent me a message asking for a $50 discount I refused, he paid the full amount and I sent him the lens, when he recieved it he put in a claim to Paypal saying the lens had water in it and he wanted a $50 discount to cover the damage.
My dealings with E-bay and Paypal were very good and professional, and it was eventually found in my favour, as I knew it would.

I believe if you are honest and fair then you have nothing to worry about.
There will always be the scammers and idiots to deal with, but thats human nature and in 99.9% of these cases you will be treated fairly.

That really is scary if it is true :
I can't help thinking there is more to this story than meets the eye.

Surely Paypal would not have refunded without inspecting it first, they must have found something in the investigation that favoured the buyer. :

Thanks guys,

Using a 180mm allows you a bit of distance from your subject, I was about a metre from these guys when I took them. And as you can see the fly was busy blowing bubbles

I took these in garden with my 180mm macro, on a tripod with flash handheld

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I had the 21mm ltd and sold it to a forum member and purchased a Sigma 10-20. I hadn't regreted my decision up until my last trip too central Australia. Lots of walking and some climbing had me wishing I had hung onto it.

That said I think the Sigma is a cracking lens

This was taken hand held with a reversed 28mm using the technique described above. Not too bad, I do say. The bug is about 10mm in size

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These were all hand held.
A tripod would have given sharper shots on some of them, but that wasn't what I was after, just giving a magnification comparison.

Mike, the reversed 28mm is a lot easier to use than stacking it on another lens.
I was composing wide open by pulling down on the aperture lever on the front (back) of the lens and releasing it when taking the shot (black viewfinder otherwise) I had the aperture set on 22 and used a flash off camera on a bracket. You should get similar results with the 24mm I suspect.