Re: [Leica] re: interesting scam

[Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>]

Austin Franklin wrote:
> 
> >  And my final
> > point still stands -- he agreed to the original deal, he got his camera
> back
> > in the same condition he sent it, so ultimately he has no beef. Tell him
> to
> > get past it, sell it again and be more careful.
> 
> The seller incurred time and expense because the buyer bought under a false
> pretense and therefore not in "good faith".  You may believe that to not be
> important, but I do, and so does the law (usually).  As I said previously,
> it's common decency.
> 
> I believe my point has been made (enough), and others, much to my
> amazement, believe it is just fine to abuse someone else's trust.

Right To the point Austin!
Buying and selling wheeling and dealing you'd think we were trading stocks on
the NASDAQ or some such thing instead of taking photos and/or being
photographers. Equipping a photo studio is not the same thing as building a
stock portfolio. It's certainly not a game we are playing with money.
Buy low sell high; early; late.
I believe in dealing in good faith and I know my suppliers know that to be true
- - it's part of my good name.
Not to get into another moral diatribe but we have to keep strait how we deal
with people and it should be straight forward.
Our morality gets lost in the shuffle of all our money fluttering back and forth
and all over the place. 
It's not the money, the gear... its the people that matter and our own good name.
Mark Rabiner