Re: [OM] 35-80mm f2.8 from eBay

[John Prosper]

> From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> How can a camera shop have no idea on the original price of camera
> equipment? Especially Olympus was one of the biggest camera
> manufacturer. Here nearly every used camera shop have a price list of
> every camera manufacturer. They know the list price of the items very
> well. In this way they set the sells price, so in most cases the price
> of used OM items is very high.
What can I say? ;-)  As a former salesman for state of the art photo 
equipment, I have to say modern slaes help is just not what it used to be. 
;-)
John

> dolphans1 wrote:
> >
> > Gary,
> >
> > I am sure they had no idea what the lens was worth. Some camera stores 
> have
> > no idea what the stuff is worth.
> >
> > I was in a KIT's camera store in Portland a while ago and asked if they 
> had
> > any older Olympus cameras, and he said yeah we have an Olympus OM4-T. We
> > looked in the cabinet and could not find it. He looked in the sales 
> paper
> > work and it had sold for $200.00 a few days before I entered. I asked 
> "was
> > it beat up" and he said "no", it looked new.
> >
> > I assume he had no idea what the camera was worth.
> >
> > Ritz Camera will give you $50.00 on trade in for a 4T, then ship it
> > somewhere else to sell. So there are deals out there, but like women, 
> it's
> > all timing.
> >
> > Sam...
> >
>
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