So the local eBay trading assistant company posted the auction page for the lens I dropped off last weekend. Looking over what they put together, I can't say I'm very impressed. For starters, examine the title of the auction:

Tokina Sigma 70-210mm Marco UC Zoom 1:4-5.6 Lens

Tokina Sigma? Those are two different companies. All of the paperwork I gave them lists it as a Sigma lens, which it is. Apparently I left a Tokina lens cap on it and that was too much for the folks at dropithere.com. And who is Marco? I guess that was supposed to be Macro.

In the description of the lens found on the auction page, they specifically say "Lens Brand: Tokina". No. And under type of focus, they have a pair of dashes which I either interpret as "not applicable" or "none," both of which are not equal to "autofocus," the correct answer. Finally, they list the minimum focal distance as being five inches, when it should be five feet.

And check out their "About Us" blurb at the bottom of the auction page:

Drop it here is Drop Off stores located in Los Alamos, NM that helps individuals, businesses, sell their items on eBay.

Great. So, as far as I can tell, the people running this outfit don't have a very thorough grasp on English (the woman I talked to there had a thick eastern-European accent). The result is an auction page that I think is an excellent example of an auction to avoid; if I were looking to buy one of these, I'd instantly go to a different auction after reading through this page.

I wrote them a nastygram and insisted that they correct all the errors immediately; we'll see what happens.

UPDATE: Four hours after writing the nastygram (11pm local time), I got a response indicating that they had fixed the problem and were very sorry. The apology was also rife with bad English, though the author blamed the borked auction page on "a new employee."