Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]How un-American! Mark, are you trying to disrupt the present economic well-being of the country? Although I am saying this in jest, there is truth in it. The American economic phenomenon is dependent to a large part on our pathological consumerism. Joseph Codispoti From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 1999 3:51 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Resale value? Not an issue >"Andrew M. Moore" wrote: >> snip Resale value? Not an issue. This lens is a keeper. >> --Andrew >This Is the first I've heard of this sentiment which I am very fond of. >All this buying and selling... I also say; you buy it, you keep it, you >marry it. You don't trade it in the minute it's not the latest thing. >It's yours! You have portfolio pieces that you shot with it! >You can't take it with you. Let em fight it out after you're dead. >All this buying and selling makes me puke. >I never buy something with half the idea that I'm going to trade it in >for something else in the not too distant future. >Mark Rabiner >