I read Ken's thread about doing scan without a scanner,which is very interesting. However I think I would like to get a Coolscan V which isn't the latest,but seems to be at a good price value/ range.
 What I am really aiming for is to do this as a business eventually, combining it with selling images on a website. Right now no one at all has ever seen my images or knows I can do scanning as well as photo retouching and editing. I would like to change that,and have been offering my services as a retoucher for free,with little sucess.
 Right now though I really need to get a scanner,and finding a Coolscan V is really a chore.I've looked at craig's list,the FM forums,Canon digital forums,Adorama, KEH and even on Ebay,who I would really rather not,but....
 A private user would probably be best, as I hope they would take the best care of  it .
I also have done rather little scanning,my only ones being on a HP S20 scanner,which was never the best by any means.
 Any advice on where to get a scanner,as well as starting a business would be greatly appreciated. BTW I'm doing this because I got laid off and would really like to persue something I really enjoy as opposed to working in Manufacturing,which I am sad to say seems headed in a rather downhill cause at this point.3 of the last jobs I had in the last 30 years going overseas.

Thats another false alarm.people and business's seem to mix those two scanners up. The V went for $599 originally and the 5000 goes for almost $1100.Thats quite a difference considering they basically do about the same thing.Thats exactly what i told Nikon but as usual they weren't listening.
 I just thought maybe someone here might have one or know of another place to get one.