Discouraging.

The eBay situation is not resolved. Still e-mailing the seller. I'll keep the site updated as this situation unfolds.

On a lighter note, I'm still pushing around ideas for the SF script. I think I'm going to keep it free of spoken dialogue. Intertitles and subtitles will provide the narrative elements, and the images will be used more freely than in a conventional fiction film. This should give an unusual tone to the piece (think "La Jetee" without the narrator, using subtitles instead) that will separate it from the vast number of post-apocalyptic SF films.