I would like to thank Andre and the other great OLY clients we ran into out at
the San Jose, CA show! We felt so professional going from table to table
following King Grant of KEH fame! He was buying everything but OLY! While we
did not get all the things we needed we did get some and a good feel for the
show for future dealer participation.
Wait till you see the new in the box OLY stuff we bought while out in
California! Hopefully we can deliver it to you people at unbelievable low
prices! Paul.
Andre Goforth wrote:
> Fellow Olympiads,
>
> I made the mad dash in the door as close to 9 AM as I could muster to shop
> the Camera Show in San Jose at the Santa Clara Fairgrounds and found a
> scroungy cardboard box with dusty, scroungy looking Oly gear. One hunmongus
> Soligar, one 35 shift, one OM 2 not working, one OM1n black + winder 2, and
> some other stuff. It looked like it had been in someone's attic for a long
> time. $650. I passed. Not much else. Seems the pickens getting slimmer and
> slimmer. Went back to bargain with the dude on his gear. It was all or
> nothing. But, someone had sucked it all up. As I was shopping at another
> table and looking at a very very clean OM1N, a figure with a large camera
> bag sided up next to me and watched. Seemed to know that it was that weird
> Oly stuff...keen eye. I thought I better quite dicking around 'cz the meter
> does not seem to work an' buy it else this gent was going to go for it. I
> turned to jest with the man and it was the Olympus Guy, Paul VanTyl! He
> was very helpful. He loaned me a test battery and the meter worked and I
> bought one dream camera. I had traded my OM1N months ago in on a OM4T and
> have started to miss it badly. As Gary Schloss said Paul is one physically
> fit Texan, who had his lovely wife along on this trip. It turned out it
> was Paul who bought the cardboard box with all the Oly goodies in it.
> Cleaned up & fixed up the gear will be great.
>
> Any other Olympiads at this show? Would like to hear what you saw and
> bought. I had a 3 hour time constraint. Heard that some European buyers
> had gone through the show and bought the interesting Oly gear.
>
> Andre
>
> San Carlos, CA
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