Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0022_01BF416A.3B5C3260 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What do you mean, suckers? Isn't it autographed by Che? ;-) (Which reminds me - my Gen-X son tells me that a friend of his recently auctioned off a pair of "Courtney Love's panties" on Ebay for $70! (Of course it was just a pair of panties he had purchased new for the purpose of auctioning them.) Ebay's slogan should either be Caveat Emptor, or P. T. Barnum's, "There's a sucker born every minute." -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of ross mcleish Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 4:46 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Leica M6 Che Guevara Booklet, Now, this is really ridiculous! Someone is selling this booklet on Ebay (Dutch auction, so must be several copies). This book was sent to me for free in Australia (by Leica)....why would anyone want to pay for it?! Talk about "suckers"....3 bids so far. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=212988370 - ------=_NextPart_000_0022_01BF416A.3B5C3260 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN = class=3D560054710-08121999>What=20 do you mean, suckers? Isn't it autographed by Che? = ;-)</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20 class=3D560054710-08121999></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN = class=3D560054710-08121999>(Which=20 reminds me - my Gen-X son tells me that a friend of his recently = auctioned off a=20 pair of "Courtney Love's panties" on Ebay for $70! (Of course it was = just a pair=20 of panties he had purchased new for the purpose of auctioning=20 them.)</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20 class=3D560054710-08121999></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN = class=3D560054710-08121999>Ebay's=20 slogan should either be Caveat Emptor, or P. T. Barnum's, "There's a = sucker born=20 every minute."</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff face=3DArial size=3D2><SPAN=20 class=3D560054710-08121999></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE=20 style=3D"BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: = 5px"> <DIV class=3DOutlookMessageHeader><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman"=20 size=3D2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>=20 owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us=20 [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]<B>On Behalf Of</B> = ross=20 mcleish<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 08, 1999 4:46 = AM<BR><B>To:</B>=20 leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Leica] Leica M6 = Che=20 Guevara Booklet,<BR><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT color=3D#800080 face=3D"MS Gothic">Now, this is really = ridiculous!=20 Someone is selling this booklet on Ebay (Dutch auction, so must be = several=20 copies). This book was sent to me for free in Australia (by = Leica)....why=20 would anyone want to <EM>pay </EM>for it?! Talk about "suckers"....3 = bids so=20 far.</FONT></DIV><BR> <A=20 = href=3D"http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3D2129= 88370">http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3D21298= 8370</A>=20 </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> - ------=_NextPart_000_0022_01BF416A.3B5C3260--