Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/06/13

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Tamarkin's wealth
From: "Richard W. Hemingway" <n5xrd@telepath.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 10:34:30 -0500

At 09:39 PM 6/12/96 +0000, you wrote:

>I can't believe what I'm hearing. Stan Tamarkin is a lovely guy who
>gave up other lucrative avenues in his life to pursue his love of
>Leica. He started small, and by good trading practices and an ethic
>that is exemplary, built the business into arguably the finest
>dealership in the U.S.
>
>He's generally competitive, one of the most knowledgeable collectors
>around, has a well trained staff of also knowledgeable people and is
>generous to a fault to groups within Leicadom [sic]. If his sin is
>that he is wealthy enough to be the high bidder in an auction, then,
>Stan, my hat is doffed to you!
>
>Exercise your prerogative to not patronize the man, BUT, for heaven
>sakes, do it for the right reasons, NOT because he is wealthy. Are
>they smiles I see on the faces of Marx, Lenin and Stalin down there?
>--
>Roger Beamon,  Natural History Interpreter & Photographer
>                          Docent, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
>                          INTERNET: beamon@primenet.com
>
Roger,

I agree with you 100%. All dealings I've had with him and his company were
excellent.  More power to him, although I would like to see a picture of the
camera he bought!

Dick Hemingway
Norman, OK