That sounds like a great deal. You're lucky that the guy didn't know that the
camera was only worth $50. And that the 24/2.8 should bring $150 itself.
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>Subject: [OM] My wonderful weekend...
> From: Dave Carroll <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:15:39 -0500
> To: "Olympus list \(E-mail\)" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>My wife, her mother and I took one of our regular trips to Tunica this
>weekend to relieve our bank accounts of some of our hard earned cash at the
>casinos. For those of you that have never been, it is like a mini Las Vegas
>in the middle of endless cotton fields. Good fun, though. For once we
>actually came away ahead (my wife taking a $500 jackpot from a nickel
>machine just before we left yesterday), so it would have been a great trip
>even without luck I had...
>
>Just before we got to our hotel, I spotted a pawn shop up a dirt track to
>the side of the road and decided to take a look. On a shelf at the back of
>this place I spotted an OM10 with 50mm 1.8 and a small gadget bag. I asked
>the (very nice) guy if I could take a look. He was asking $150 for the
>camera with all the accessories. I looked in the bag and in it was a 28mm
>2.8 and a 135 3.5 (neither of which I had). I told him that I didn't need
>the camera and asked if he would be willing to part with the lenses
>seperately. 'No problem', he said, 'make me an offer'. I offered him $30 for
>both and he accepted! The 135mm has a case and is in really good condidtion;
>looks hardly used. The 28mm had no case, but did have the rubber Oly hood,
>and is also in very good condition. I was chuffed!
>
>As if this wasn't enough, as I went to leave, the guy called me back and
>said that he had another Olympus lens if I was interested. Turned out to be
>an extremely nice 24mm 2.8, with case and metal hood, which I got for the
>princely sum of $10 :)
>
>Needless to say, I am feeling quite smug this morning.
>
>Dave
>
>P.S. Oh, I also took a load of pictures in and around Memphis which I'll put
>up on my site when I get them back.
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