Not sure if I am being over-cautious, but there is something fishy with this sale. Not only does the seller not post pictures of the lens in the sale (he insists on personally e-mailing it if you are interested) but when I mailed him, he sent me a stock (copyrighted) Schneider photo of this lens - the first and most obvious google images search result. This is inexcusable.
He also does not mention any of the obvious technical details when selling a lens like this, such as whether it comes with/without a centre filter, a lens board (recessed or not recessed), etc. He's also far too happy to drop the price to $900 without me even having hinted that I would like a better price.
The odd thing is that Ted has many posts in the classifieds, so I am totally confused as to the trustworthiness of this sale.
Dawid