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Re: [OM] Garage sailing 11/28/98

Subject: Re: [OM] Garage sailing 11/28/98
From: *- DORIS FANG -* <sfsttj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 08:41:00 -0500 (EST)

On Sat, 28 Nov 1998 PCACala@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi Doris:
> 
> > "throw in the camera and it's a deal"
> Like I just posted, it's all in the venue you are in as to what is a good
> deal.  I paid $30 for my Rollei P 37 E slide projector w/ 70-120mm f/2.8
> Rollei Projar lens.  I've seen the lens alone going for $279 new.  It took
> rummaging through about 150 open air seller's booths to find it, though.

  Absolutely. Value is relative. I bought a new, sealed, Winder II from a
woman who said: "I'm not putting THAT heavy thing on the bottom of my 
beautiful tiny OM-3, even if my husband loves his". She sold it for $3.
  But as good as the finds may be, they're not "free". You have to do
the time consuming footwork, and learn enough about equipment to not get
burned. A lot of people go ga-ga over my (and others') "finds", but when
I'm planning out my garage sale map on Saturday at 4:45 AM, they're still
dreaming (of OM-3tis) in bed. When I'm racing from sale to sale with
flashlight in hand, magnifying glass, batteries in purse, rummaging
through acres of garbage seeking a few treasures, they're thinking of
coffee and letting out the dog. It is work, but it does pay off, and on
the variable-ratio schedule of reinforcement, which is why it is so
addictive. Besides, I am fascinated by the socio-archaelogical...the way
people live. I have seen collections of everything you can imagine, been
inside 200+ stranger's houses this year alone, met scores of people. I
love it. Oh, yeah, I'm drooling over that projector!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                                       *= Doris Fang =*


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