Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] E bay Vendors
From: Don Lawrence <DLawrence@fkp.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:56:44 -0600

It is incredible, but there are actually some (many) people who buy Leica
Cameras 'and never use them'!
This strange breed of collectors sometimes will get bored with their
treasures and unload, cash in, downsize.
Clever dealers snap up these items and turn them around for a profit.

Don


>From: Bill Satterfield <cwsat@istate.net>


>I am talking about M3s-4s and 5s.

>Dan Honemann wrote:

> Easy: they buy 'em grey, like the rest of us.
>
> > Some vendors, selling Leicas, seem to always come up with Leica bodies
> > in Mint condtion. How do these vendors find these cameras? I have never
> > seen any for sale in the local papers.