Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Resale value? Not an issue
From: "Joseph Codispoti" <joecodi@thegrid.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 16:16:47 -0800

How un-American!

Mark, are you trying to disrupt the present economic  well-being of the
country?
Although I am saying this in jest, there is truth in it. The American
economic phenomenon is dependent to a large part on our pathological
consumerism.

Joseph Codispoti


From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 1999 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Resale value? Not an issue


>"Andrew M. Moore" wrote:
>> snip Resale value? Not an issue. This lens is a keeper.
>> --Andrew
>This Is the first I've heard of this sentiment which I am very fond of.
>All this buying and selling... I also say; you buy it, you keep it, you
>marry it. You don't trade it in the minute it's not the latest thing.
>It's yours! You have portfolio pieces that you shot with it!
>You can't take it with you. Let em fight it out after you're dead.
>All this buying and selling makes me puke.
>I never buy something with half the idea that I'm going to trade it in
>for something else in the not too distant future.
>Mark Rabiner
>