Keith, over here every pawnshop price is negotiable. I typically count on
getting at least 250ff (though on the OM-2N, BG2 with cables, Winder 2, and
T-32, I only got them down from $250 to $225).
Haven't seen anything worth considering in a pawnshop for about 2 years around
here.
Gary Edwards
"Keith (R.K.) Berry" wrote:
> There's a Cash Converters in my local shopping centre with lots of rarely
> interesting cameras jammed tightly together on shelves behind glass doors.
> The top two are compacts, a lower one or two of SLRs and the bottom one,
> where you have to get on hands and knees to peer in, have a jumble of
> unlabelled and mostly unidentifiable lenses. In eighteen months of looking
> in there every week, the best OMs I ever saw were OM10s - until a fortnight
> after I bought my OM-40(PC), when two OM-40s appeared!
>
> Most of the cameras bear an uninformative price ticket, marked, for example
> "Minolta camera £35", and are generally well over-priced. I don't what, if
> any, guarantee they offer, but I've never felt confident in them enough to
> buy anything from them. They appear to have no idea about retailing cameras.
>
> Regards,
> Keith Berry (Birmingham, England)
> keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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