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@BrickMan
REALLY wouldn't buy anything from oxfam online.
I've bought two cameras from there against my own feelings that there wasn't enough information, both were in terrible, borderline scrap condition, and the lens one of the lenses was seized and had the most fungus I've ever seen in any lens. They also refused to refund as apparently I was 'too fussy, and these have been checked by qualified professionals'!
They've just jumped on the bandwagon of 'cameras are all worth money money money'.
Very few are checked by anyone worth a damn (if at all!) and yet they ask for full fat shop/ebay price, and often quite a bit more.
I'm all for charities getting a bit of money for something, but the last 2 years, far too many of them have gone far too far with fancy shops, and obscene prices (oxfam often putting higher than street retail prices on used/dogged/smoked cloths).