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Subject: Re: [OM]
From: "mike m." <mnmitch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 11:25:27 -0600
I e-mailed the bidder early on inquiring about anymore Olympus equipment that 
wasn't listed and have not recieved a reply.

Garth Wood wrote:

> At 06:48 AM 11/9/2000 -0800, Jim Timpe wrote:
> >My name is Jim, and I'm a zuikoholic in recovery.  I need HELP!!!!  This
> >E*ay listing got my legs very weak, and I'm having fits of cold sweats...
> >
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=491439031
> >
> >I DON"T want to be seeing any pink snakes and dancing elephants, now...
>
> Note that the seller claims he's selling off the stuff he's inherited from a 
> relative's camera shop "a little at a time."  How much more (other than the 
> batch he's already selling) do you think he has?  I'm tempted to bid through 
> the auspices of my company -- I could make money breaking them up into 
> individual pieces and re-selling them!
>
> In truth, nothing in the offering made my knees weak (I don't need multiples 
> of any particular focal length, although like all Zuikoholics I've got 
> multiples of the 50mm focal length), but I'd sure like to see if he's got 
> anything more exotic.
>
> One point.  If everything's been in storage for 15+ years, the lenses may be 
> suffering from fungus.  I bought a like-new OM-1n a few years back that had 
> been stored, unused, for 12 years, and while the camera was fine, the lens 
> was definitely starting to show some crud.  The camera misfired for a few 
> times, until I worked the mechanism enough to get it "limbered up."  Since 
> then, it's been brilliant.
>
> Garth
>
> P.S.:  I note as well that Tom Scales is bidding.  Oh well, I suppose the 
> rest of us didn't really need any of that stuff anyways...  8^>
>
>
> "Good... bad... I'm the guy with the gun."
>
>    -- Ash,
>       Army of Darkness
>
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