Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Patrick, I think you'll find that managers of those thrift stores are not dummies. This whole thing is, IMO, an example of the "windfall legend." The person who first posted it, owned up to the fact that he doesn't know the man who bought the camera, just that he is a fireman. Check out snopes' take on the windfall legend, and you'll see the amazing similarity. http://www.snopes.com/luck/declare.htm The moral contradiction in the Leica story is similar to that where a widow sells her dead soldier son's car for $200. As Snopes puts it: "Deep down we're really nice people, but we're still not averse to profiting from someone else's misfortune, even if in the process we have to skin the mother of a dead war hero." Notice that you never hear stories like this directly from the person who bought it? If you had the opportunity, what would you do? Kim seems to think she knows exactly what I would do if presented the opportunity, but I doubt I'll ever find out, because having been in literally thousands of thrift stores, pawn shops and garage sales, I have seen far more over-priced things than underpriced. SonC (who has donated cases of Peanut Butter to charity) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Jelliffe" <pbjbike@yahoo.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Bargin BAH! > In the last few years, some Salvation Army and > Goodwill stores are putting much higher prices on > collectible items, sometimes more than they are worth. > A few of them even sell on the auction site. In this > day and age, managers of thrift stores ought to be > savvy enough to do a little investigation on the rarer > items that come their way. > > Cheers, > > Patrick > > --- Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com> wrote: > > different societies have different levels of > > acceptable behaviour and > > greed. The whole bargain hunting ethos and caveat > > emptor approach to > > trade operates at a level of greed I, and presumably > > Teresa, find > > immoral even if it is legal. If somebody steals $30 > > from a little old > > lady because they can snatch her purse they are no > > more dishonest than > > an antiques dealer who knowingly pays $30 less for > > an item they buy > > from her. One exploits physical weakness, the other > > ignorance. Both are > > dishonest even though one is legal. > > Just MHO > > Frank > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > http://calendar.yahoo.com > -- > 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