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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: O/T...WALT'S DOMKE BAG RANT..LONG and RAMBLING insanity....IGNORE!!!
From: "Rob Heyman" <rheyman@bigpond.net.au>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:45:58 +1000
References: <SIMEON.10110160809.A@sova-walt.unt.edu>

Terrific reply, LOVE IT, keep up the good work, I read every word of your
reply and agree with you totally that this type of explanation should NOT be
necessary. But I LOVE a good rant!!!!!!

Rob


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter S Delesandri" <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Cc: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 11:30 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: O/T...WALT'S DOMKE BAG RANT..LONG and RAMBLING
insanity....IGNORE!!!


> 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
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