Although the fault wasn't described in the ebay listing, he did tell me that it SOMETIMES does this when I picked up the camera. I turned it off and back on again while there and it turned on fine. first time so I decided to take a chance because of A - the cheap cost and B - the fact that I had already driven almost 2 hours to pick it up.

As I have said, this appears to be the only fault with the camera so if it is just a loose wire or something then I would prefer to get it repaired rather than selling it as faulty.

So, does anybody have any idea why the camera would do this? Is the loose wire theorey possible? Or is it more likely to be something more serious?

Thanks. Trevor