Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/23

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Charities And Donations, Eric & Art
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:34:39 -0500

A valid point. More valid than most responders seem to realize- Does the
average surgeon give away his services? The average accountant? Baseball
player? Graphic designer? Etc..No..Why should a photographer be expected to?
The expectation is reflective of the view of photographers as dumb button
pushers, and we know how valid that is...

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Eric Welch
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 1:25 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Charities And Donations, Eric & Art


At 10:46 AM 2/23/99 -0500, you wrote:

>     accountant---or anyone---assume that his services would be worth the
>     same to everyone?  Nothing has the same value to everyone, which is
>     why there are buyers and sellers (also non-buyers and non-sellers).

Everyone, we're getting away from photography, but my point is, that an
accountant who does major corporation work should be insulted if I imply by
my request that he should do my taxes for $29 when he doesn't have the time
to do that, because that covers about 2 minutes of his time, and if he
refuses, I call him uppity.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

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