Re: [Leica] buying and selling cameras

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

It seems that most of the objections to selling have been directed towards
people who are in the business of selling something.  Most of the dealers
who do post here are consciensious enough to limit their pitches to Fridays.
Others have gone against this custom and been subject to much indignation.
Should there be a distinction between commercial vendors and individuals
trying to sell from their personal stock?

Mike D

- -----Original Message-----
From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Saturday, December 25, 1999 2:57 AM
Subject: [Leica] buying and selling cameras


>When I created the Leica Users mailing list 7 years ago, I carefully
>put the word "users" in its name, because I wanted a list that was
>centered around people who actually make photographs with Leica
>cameras, rather than around people who collect them and put them on
>shelves. While I have no animosity towards camera collectors, I do feel
>that, through the years, the primary value of the Leica-Users list has
>been that it is a forum for discussion among photographers and not
>just camera collectors.
>
>The current rule about limiting commercial messages to Fridays is not a
>rule that I made. There were a few years when I found it difficult to
>read the list every day, so I just sort of skimmed it and let anarchy
>rule. I don't know who proposed or announced that rule, but I like it.
>The reason that I like it is that it keeps the flavor of the list one
>of photography and not camera collecting.
>
>There is no sharp boundary between photography and camera collecting.
>You can't be a photographer without a camera, and once you hold a Leica
>you don't really want to let go of it; you have a one-camera
>collection. But my preference would be to continue the tradition of
>having one day a week for commercial messages. I don't think anybody
>will be booted off the list if they post such messages on other days,
>and in a global world it's never clear just what day it is anyhow (as I
>type this message it is still Friday where I live, but in most of the
>world it is Saturday).
>
>Brian Reid
>