Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm trying to single-handedly change this status quo...... Walt On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Joseph Codispoti wrote: > 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 > > > >