Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/04

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Subject: Re: Shopping for Leicas in Kathmandu
From: Mark Bergman <BMWR100R@mwci.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 12:18:40 -0800

Marc James Small wrote:
> 
> At 08:04 PM 2/3/97 -0800, Stephen Gandy wrote:
> 
> >The IIIF he found is a BD, check the number.
> >
> >Nearly ALL screwmounts after years of storage need at least a CLA, and
> >half of those will need new curtains.   I made that assumption when
> >evaluating the price.
> 
> Believe me, back East a IIIf BD with a clean body, even if it needs a CLA,
> will run a minimum of $400 and possibly more.  I just spent the last few
> minutes running through my back-file of pricelists and catalogues looking
> for some other items and noticed that even the average IIIF bd's are going
> up, up, up.
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
About three months ago I tried selling a minty IIIF RD on the net with
very little success for $575. Had been CLA'd and was very very nice. 
Finally sold it for $450.  Either the net isn't a good place to sell
(which I beginning to believe) or the really price is around $450.