Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/19

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Subject: [Leica] *Bay & PayPal
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue Jun 19 00:28:26 2007



On 6/19/07 1:15 AM, "Marc James Small" <marcsmall@comcast.net> typed:

> At 12:43 AM 6/19/2007, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> Why did you spell eBay *bay?
> 
> Very early in the existence of the LUG, Brian
> asked us not to abuse the FS/WTB Fridays by
> simply posting links to eBay listings.  Some
> folks took that to be an absolute ban on the use
> of the eBay name.  Brian attempted for some years
> to explain the distinction but without
> success.  It has, by now, gotten to be a bit of a joke.
> 
> Oddly, this has never been an issue on the Rollei
> List though we share so many members.  I do not
> know why.  Perhaps Rolleiflex shooters are
> smarter?  More intuitive?  More into the flow of things?  <he grins>
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
>From what I can tell less of them and less into buying and selling for the
most part.

Its not like you're going to get a 2.8f and then decide you have to go get
the latest 2.8f. These are all classics from decades ago.

Mark Rabiner
Harlem, NY

markrabiner.com



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