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Subject: [OM] Re: Pay peanuts...
From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:22:02 -0500
I've found insurance adjusters to be quite reasonable folks,
especially if they identify you as someone interested in a fair
settlement.  Just my experience -- there are always exceptions.

YMMV/ScottGee1


On 11/18/05, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Maybe wanted to check that you weren't using them for business purposes?
>
> I must admit that the settlement I got from the firm with the red phone -
> after a bit of haggling - was what set me on the slide down this steep
> slippery slope. Persist, and you may well end up where I did, talking to the
> firm to which the insurer farms out the replacement job.  I convinced them
> that I did not want new-for-old replacement, and would happily settle for
> used goods to the same value.  The stolen OM-10 thus metamorphosed into an
> OM-2SP and a few lenses
>
> :-)
>
> --
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of savvo
> Sent: 18 November 2005 12:32
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Pay peanuts...
>
> Some may recall the theft of my NikoBron gear some aeons ago. Today the
> insurance loss adjuster finally called.
>
> Very sympathetic man. While going through the list of stolen gear he told me
> that Es.re had consulted a photographic expert who was of the opinion that
> this was the outfit of a paparazzo. So I must have had a D2 and a couple of
> fast prime teles? Actually an F80 + 20, 28, 50 and a cheap 70-300 a set of
> NDs and grads and a polariser.
>
> I suppose if Kate Moss happened to be snorting lines off Hadrian's Wall
> while I was there I could have snapped her.
>
> How do you get a gig as adviser to these morons?
>
> I was floored by the question, "What do you use these cameras for?" I
> couldn't think of any answer that didn't involve some arrangement of the
> words, 'photographs,' 'duhhh,' and 'taking.'
>
> --
> Chris
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