Olympus-OM
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [OM] Hilarious eBay Posting

Subject: Re: [OM] Hilarious eBay Posting
From: Steve Goss <steveg3@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 22:45:47 -0600
A couple of possibilities:

1. It works, but it looks *REALLY* ugly.
2. It's so blindingly obvious that if you saw it you could do it yourself.

Steve Goss, Dallas TX usa

Skip Williams wrote:
> 
> I saw this too.  But if this guy has actually made such a device, there are
> many people that would probably buy it.  I don't know if he'll get the $300
> he's looking for though.  That seems at least double what I'd pay if I was
> both a Pen F and Nikon user.  There have been many times that I wished that
> my OM-to-Pen adapter had an autodiaphragm capability.
> 
> I really don't understand his veil of secrecy though.  Maybe that increases
> the price?  These things have got to cost an arm and a leg to make, and the
> market isn't very high for them.  Does he think that the CIA is going into
> the Pen F adapter business to raise cash??!!
> 
> Skip
> 
> At 07:23 PM 12/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >This has to be one of the most rediculous ads yet, it must be a joke.  This
> >Nikon/Pen adaptor is apparantly so desirable and secret that pictures will
> >only be sent to the high bidder.  I had a good laugh over that.
> >
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1204497292
> >
> >                                 -mark

< This message was delivered via the Olympus Mailing List >
< For questions, mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
< Web Page: http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/olympuslist.html >


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Sponsored by Tako
Impressum | Datenschutz