Re: A Leica story

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:55:28 GMT, King Sardon <KSardon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
: On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:03:05 +0800, "gerrit" <gthart@xxxxxx> wrote:
:
: >
: >"RichA" <rander3127@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
: >news:1183167575.410658.30700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: >> Guy walks into a downtown camera store and says, "I like to trade my
: >> film camera for a credit against a new digital."
: >> Pulls out a Leica R3 in near mint condition, a Summicron 50mm f2 made
: >> in the Midland, Ontario plant, almost mint and a 28mm f2.8 Elmarit,
: >> similar condition.
: >> Sales guy asks what he wants for it.
: >> $200.00. Sales guy's eyes light up, he pulls out his own wallet and
: >> hands the guy $200.00.
: >> I guess it's a perk of the job that you get to take advantage of
: >> things like this personally.
: >> I don't know what digital the guy ended up getting.
: >>
: >
: >Unlikely to be true.
: >
: >No one, but no one carries that much cash around with them these days.
:
: I heard a similar story, almost certainly true, about a salesman who
: bought a Hasselblad with three lenses (50, 80 and 150mm) from a lady
: for $1000 of his own money. The gear was from her husband who had
: passed away a few years earlier. I heard the story from the salesman
: himself, who was bragging about it.
:
: Unlikely he had $1000 in cash on him, but there are lots of ways to
: pay.
:
: Afterwards, he was very happy, and so was the lady.

An urban legend if I ever heard one. The very similarity of the two stories
proves the point. (As does the phrase "almost certainly true".) ;^)

Bob
.

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