Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The money mongers (dot com's on helium) are bust and there is not only a scarcity of cash, but these bust .commers are in hock for the taxes on their worthless shares up to their eye balls. And real photographers don't make any extra money. So you should advertise in the Palm Beach news paper. Real retired folks with real money. Too busy playing shuffleboard and canasta to be on the LUG. Jim At 06:17 PM 8/15/01 -0400, Ernest Nitka wrote: >The original expression is "Trying to sell Ice to Eskimos" but I don't >want to offend any native aboriginal folks. Anyway I've been trying to >sell my R8 and associated lenses and it literally has been like selling >ice to Eskimos. No bites except those that offer to rape me >financially. None of 5 major dealers were interested, nada, not even to >the point of talking price- just weren't interested. > >My point in this email is not to use Wed. LUG to sell something 2 days >early but to simply let people know that the R8s must not be selling well >and the more mundane lenses are the same. Is this everybody's >experience? Now I know that no one ever guaranteed that these things sell >themselves but i am just ventilating about how soft the market must be at >this time. > >any thoughts, comments > >ernie nitka