[Leica] Best camera deal you (personally) have ever gotten.......

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

> OK... Out of the closet.....   Let's hear about the most outrageous deal
> you have ever gotten on a camera or lens.  No fair unless
> you explain the circumstances of the deal.......as much as you know......
>
> I will start off:  I bought about 30 darkroom lenses in a lot from Ebay.
> The guy was legitimate, he was an equipment dealer in the
> Midwest.  He dealt in surplus equipment.  I paid over $1300, and sold a
> few of the lenses off for what I paid, then doubled that
> number on a single lens.....  a 210mm F5.6  APO EL Nikkor.  Not bad.  I
> sold off the rest of the lenses for a few hundred.
>
> Your turn......

Can't touch that. I once bought a Bronica SQ in Hong Kong: special deal
for you. It was wrapped in glad wrap. It worked fine, was a nice camera,
but I never trusted it, and when rust began to appear around one of the
screws, I traded it in on a 2000 fcm, which is working to this day: the
trade in was more than I had paid originally, but no big deal ;-)

Cheers

Alastair