Re: [Leica] LHSA swap meet and LHSA black paint ed.

[Bill Grimwood <Bill@grimwood.net>]

At 10:25 AM 10/26/00 EDT, you wrote:
><<I am behind reading my mail.  Unfortunately there seems to be a few in
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>attendance that are not trustworthy.  Several years ago I had a dual range
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>Summicron stolen at the Minneapolis-St. Paul convention.  It is very
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>regrettable but it has happened again.
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>Bill Grimwood>>
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>Bill,
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>Did you tell Bill or the current LHSA president when this happened?

Yes but this was several years ago and they have probably forgotten.
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>When I forwarded the information about my missing pair of binoculars I was 
>assured that no one had ever been hit at _this_ (the LHSA) swap meet. Now I 
>have heard of two people who have been other than me. Could the LHSA be 
>unaware of this or is it just a clever denial of the facts?

probably forgotten
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>Are you also still an officer of the LHSA? Perhaps a good idea in the future 
>would be to actually let this information reach the exhibitors so that they 
>can be on their guard while at the meet. While that may seem cynical it is 
>still better than losing a $1000 pair of binoculars or equally valuable lens 
>etc. etc.
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I have not been an officer for the past four years.

>I guess the upshot of all of it is that I won't take a table again at an
LHSA 
>swap meet. Better to go out and just have fun and not risk a theft of an 
>expensive item! Well, anyway, I guess that is that now so I will just move
on 
>with my life and business and try to forget this incident. It is unfortunate.
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Don't do that just be more careful next time.
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>PS- Leica is certainly NOT still taking order for the LHSA camera. Believe
me 
>for I have asked my rep. and Roger a few times and to quote Roger he said 
>"...sorry Rich, Leica USA is now out of the LHSA business until the next 
>project." I really doubt that they are telling me they have no more and then 
>offering them to other dealers... They are definitively sold out on these
and 
>now we all just await delivery. Of course, many dealers (including me) 
>ordered a bunch more then they pre-sold to speculate that prices would be 
>going only up on these desirable cameras... 

I am glad to hear this.
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>later,
>Rich
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