Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, I screwed up, again...!!! I meant to send this to Steve, in Denton.... but sent to the whole list (wasn't watching the header)....believe it or not, I have received many emails about my Domke F3x bag... It's a reasonably priced bag, I think 60-70 US bux, from any supplier...NEW.. I'm posting this to the list as well as replying to the emails to be polite. If this doesn't pertain to you, you probably should stop reading now...!!!.. IF YOU DON'T STOP READING< DO NOT SEND ME >>>ANYTHING<<<... Here's the poop: It's a black ballistic F3X bag. I removed the "carry handle" d-rings when new cuz they bothered me. It's near mint in appearance. I was being a smartass when I posted to Steve, but I wasn't "lying"... the bag, technically, is "for sale" Any sane person would call it "like new", I called it "near mint" because this is the LUG....probably should have called it a "beater" because I don't look that closely at MY BAGS. It probably smells like smoke (cigarette and cooking-God-knows-what) because it lives in a closet next to my chair and between me and the kitchen stove--and might smell like aftershave, depending on when I last carried it. It probably DOESN'T have anthrax on it, but hey, who can be sure? No one has had sex--THAT I KNOW OF-- near OR in the bag. No unauthorized, non Leica repairs have been performed, that I know of.... Yes, I'm being cynical, again...BUT HERE'S WHY: I >>THINK<< Feli was JOKING about the plastic bag....I HOPE?... A coupla years ago, I sold some OTHER bags to some (asian, or can I NOT say that?) LUNATIC on this group....I represented the bags as functional, worn, beaters..structurally perfect...I even joked in the ad about looking "real"...(velveteen rabbit, for those familiar)....I boxed and shipped the bags at great trouble and some expense, all for $55, I think...AND HE INSISTED THAT I RETURN HIS MONEY BECAUSE THEY "SMELLED" and were SOILED!!!...ONLY ON THE L.U.G.!!!....I suggested that he might wash them or just lay them out in the sun, but finally, I refunded his money, and to his credit he returned them perfectly intact.....BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TWO USED, CHEAP, BAGS HERE!!!--- Had this been some RAGGED-ASSED BLACK ENAMEL PIECE OF CRAP MP-with-worn-out- leicavit-that-sucked-when-new, that belonged to some nameless, faceless, PJ from some third world country, he'd have paid $10,000-- and not given a damn what it looked like. Again, I was posting to Steve, but yes, the bag IS for sale, I guess... You see, the fact that I felt I ..HAD.. to post the above paragraphs was my previous "problem" with the LUG....I enjoy the group, but occasionally sign off because I just can't STAND it...!!!... Yes the bag is for sale. FOB MY HOUSE....all sales final....if you want me to ship it, send me $50. FIRM. FINAL. US only. Preferably Texas. I'll ship it when I DAMN WELL feel like it. (actually the next day) If you don't like it I don't care. I won't respond to you. If you want a new one that smells like a new Toyota and has no dust on it, don't buy mine. It has NOT been in a hermetically sealed environment. It hasn't been used much, maybe been out of the house 10 times...once to Houston...I might have set it down on the floor, so it CERTAINLY has cat hair on the bottom. And my sweat on the strap. (It's humid in Houston, and I'm a fat, ugly, bad smelling bastard--ask Will Von Dauster) I apologize for my rant, since it was a mistake that I posted to the whole group....But if any of this offends you, remember, it's the LUG's fault that this is necessary....NOT mine....I'm a photographer, not a collector, not an academic, not a beaurocrat (sp?)...my gear is very well maintained, to the point that >>>>REAL<<<< photographers consider me obsessive and make fun of me, but to the LUG I'm still a slob. I had sworn in 1999 to NEVER sell to anyone on the LUG (although I'd certainly buy, and I've sold to several VERY happy folks on the LUG in the past)--nice guys who are GONE from the LUG now, wonder why? Have a great Leica day, Walt On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:06:16 -0700 Feliciano di Giorgio <feli@d2.com> wrote: > Walter S Delesandri wrote: > > > > I don't know, Steve....I do, however, have a near-mint "official domke > > journalist bag" (F3x ballistic, I think it's called) that's available > > for cheap or trade!!...(too big for leicas, not much good for anything else!!) > > :) > > Thanks for the try, tho, you may have won!!! > > Walt > > Is it still in the original plastic bag? > > > feli > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > "It's truly one of those shows where you just keep expecting Allen Funt > to come bursting out from behind some 2-way mirror and explain that > you've been on candid camera for 3 years." > -Ethan Ormsby on the status of production, 1999 > ________________________________________________________________________ > Feli di Giorgio * Compositing Supervisor * DIGITAL DOMAIN > feli@d2.com * Ext. 3074 > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html