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Re: [OM] DF Hall of Fame

Subject: Re: [OM] DF Hall of Fame
From: "Clemente Colayco" <litefoot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:00:17 +0800
OH Please! Stop telling us such stories....How it make us salivate in
anguish. Since I don't live there....

Regards

Titoy

----- Original Message -----
From: *- DORIS FANG -* <sfsttj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] DF Hall of Fame


>
>
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 Johnsonpa@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Doris,
> >        Tell us about the black OM-3Ti at the garage sale!  Come on!!!
Pretty
> > please with sugar on top!
>
>   It was an OM-3, not a ti...
>
>    I already had two OM-3's that I bought new. But I spotted this gray
> Tamrac below a table right at the back of the sale by the guy's feet.
> I said "Do you have any cameras for sale ?" The guy bolts up and puts
> the Tamrac down, and there were all these things in it, and I'm trying to
> look non-chalant while my heart is pounding so hard I think everyone
> can hear it ! I did not spread things out on the table, because it would
> have attracted attention from the other g-sailors, and naturally driven
> up the price.
>    From my OM-3's I knew the shutter sounded right, and I asked the guy
> why he was selling it, and he told me he had spent a fortune on this
> (I quivered) kit, but now he had a Stylus Zoom and he was SO relieved
> from having to carry all this stuff ! The lenses looked brand new, no
> signs of use or wear anywhere, no scratches, no fungus, each with its Hoya
> UV filter --- and shade. He had the original receipt from a local
> camera store. I said let me lift it (drooling at this point), OH, "it's
> kinda heavy" (it WAS).
> He told me to get a Stylus Zoom instead, and shaking his head,
> as if I was about to make a huge mistake, he says, "How about $300 ?"
> My knees turned to Jell-o, but my g-sailor reflexes stood me in good stead
> and I replied how about $250 ? "It's all yours !", " I hope you'll
> use it more than I have". I restrained myself until I was about two
> blocks away, then screamed in joy. I grinned for months...:)
>
>                                 *= Doris Fang =*
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