[Leica] Just curious

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

I'm already there. I have a seven-year collection of
Mickey D's happy meal toys, spanning the late 80's
into the '90's, when I finally absolutely burned out
on cheese burgers and fries. All unopened. All
acquired with the intention of cynically cashing in on
a future nostalgia boom for ancient broken plastic
toys.

Make me an offer?
Arche

--- Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> >s trips to various camera or stereo stores are a
> thing
> > of the past.
> > Now, with a few keystrokes, I can find all the
> 1970's I would ever need.
> > And what better way to relive one's youth than
> picking up an old
> > Marantz receiver or a set of AR3a's, etc?
> > Makes the hassles with the postal services seem
> minor to me.
> > 
> > Phil
> > 
> > 
> The flipside to this touched in Previous episodes on
> the LUG on a result
> that we are having much more fun with the
> accumulating and dis-accumulating
> a constant ongoing recycling of valued red dot
> objects of some odd persons
> trade and anything existing of so called value in
> the material word.
> Seven years ago could have done such trading in the
> Shutterbug or Christies.
> But now we're plugged into the greedy non-Zen
> lunatics of the entire world
> population with the speed of your connection.
> With a Leica lens which has more apparent value as a
> case piece than a
> working tool this gets complicated.
> Bringing my thoughts to....
> How many fine prints are being auctioned off on
> eBay???
> A tangent for another occasion but I have no idea.
> 
> The buying and selling of precious and valued items
> does not go on with
> others vocations that I can think of. Lumberjacks
> don't endlessly recycle on
> eBay their chain saws. Seamstress's their needles
> and threads. Few would be
> interested in the UPS and FedX handling of needles
> and threads and chainsaws
> for their glass cases to fly in the face of those
> who use these tools to pay
> the rent.
> This is what those involved in the pursuit of
> photography face.
>  
> Now with the internet photographs which have value -
> images are pawned off
> for a few bucks here and there. Its camera gear
> which is relegated to the
> status of the plastic toys of our youth which we
> were bored with shortly
> before they thankfully broke. And baseball cards.
> 
> Here's a dumb idea: Soon a book will come out "EBay
> for Kiddies" and the
> plastic toys we get our kids with such love will be
> recycled for eternity.
> Like little yellow bathtub duckys.
>  
> Mork in New York
> A yellow and black cheater book; EBay for the
> kiddies of dummies and idiots.
> 
> 
> 
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