I agree completely. I was just pointing out that the guy has stuff to sell, and
his prices are fair. If he was reducing stock, its nice to be able to call him
and buy something, rather than being told that someone called at 8am (or
something like that) and bought his entire stock out at a "package deal"
The upshot being that nobody did that, and I was able to buy what I needed from
him..
Larry
ClassicVW@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I don't want to get into a p*ssing match with anyone, but since Tom received
> 400 emails and is shipping 50 parcels or pieces out, it *would* seem that he
> had not only fair prices, but items that people on the list wanted.
>
> I appreciate his - and anyone else for that matter - offering items here
> first as long as the posting says "FS" so anyone can skip it if "FS" ads
> offend them. I also appreciate, after I agreed to buy a certain item at an
> agreed price and I was about to send him payment, that he contacted me and
> said after looking over the piece before shipping it out, he found - let me
> call it an "imperfection" - and he was no longer comfortable with selling it
> to a list member. THAT kind of consideration you don't find on eBay!
>
> I thought of this list as a group of friends sitting around talking Olympus
> photography. Does that mean I can never buy a camera from a friend?
> What *may* have gotten Tom resentment is his openness to share with us his
> "good deals" he feels he gets from time to time. Someone may feel he's
> always getting these "deals" ("steals"?) then turning a profit. So what if he
> does? He's laying out a TON of money, not to mention the stress of hiding the
> buying and selling (mostly the buying) from his wife! If his prices are not
> fair, he'll know it from the lack of interest. Sure, we'd all like to find
> the $75 40/2 lens- and the $175 OM-4T we recently "heard" about :) ... I'm
> sure Tom would too. Does that mean we can never sell it for a higher price?
>
> I found a LNIB 85/2 lens for $75 a couple of years ago, and yes- the lead to
> where it was was openly posted here. I've been offered 3 times that and more
> (not that I'm selling it). I've also- in my much younger and non- OM-savvy
> days sold an OM 50-250 for $150. You take the good with the bad. I also know
> Tom has been burned by a seller or two on an item or two, and he's kept the
> items and not offered them here, and even chosen not to get into something
> ugly with the seller. That's the type of friend we have, and he's not alone,
> many of us treat each other as friends. Let's keepit that way, please.
>
> Best,
> George S.
>
> tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> << Larry,
>
> If you have a problem with the prices I offered to the list, then don't buy
> anything. I offered VERY fair prices, well below market prices. Do some
> comparison shopping.
>
> You clearly have a thing for me. Get over it.
>
> Tom
> >>
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