Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc James Small wrote: > > At 06:12 PM 1999-01-25 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > >Since when can junkies not smell money? If your out thiere in your > >tweeds and your red dots and your halaberten cases they you see you > >coming for blocks away. " how many fixes is rolling this guy worth?" > >What Profile did Josef Kodelka keep sleeping under a park bench? > > Precisely my point, Mark. The fences will ONLY take cameras which they, in > turn, can readily market. They can't sell a Leica easily, so they won't > buy it. They WILL buy Nikons or Canons or Olympus cameras and the like, as > these can be easily sold. > > There simply isn't much of an underworld market for Leicas, and the junkies > aren't looking for them. The Bad Guys ARE looking for Nikon et al., as > these can be turned into Ready Cash. snip Are there frequenters of pawn shops that can tell us how often they see Leica's and which ones? There is only one in Portland and that is off my beaten path. Mark Rabiner