A seller in San Juan island, Wa, was trying to sell me the 85-250 zuiko.
I was surprised to see that item in a VERY small island. Victoria is only
a few miles from there, but apparently the shop owners did not go to the
show.
Omer Nezih GEREK
Electrical & Electronics Dept. email: gerek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Bilkent University, phone: 90-312-2902480
06533 Bilkent, Ankara, fax : 90-312-2664307
TURKEY http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~gerek
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Shawn Wright wrote:
> On 22 Sep 98, at 5:28, PCACala@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Hi Gary LA:
> >
> > << My experience with 2 California camera shows are that the prices (by
> > dealers)
> > are lower than Shutterbug but higher than Ebay closing prices. An OM1 with
> > 50mm might be $200 to $250 in Shutterbug, $150-175 at a camera show, (I saw
> > one for $130 banged up) and $120- 150 on Ebay. >>
> >
> > You are comparing apples and oranges here. Two of these represent asking
> > prices and one selling (or more precisely "buying") price. Just because
> > someone is asking a price doesn't mean they get it.
> >
> > Not everyone selling at camera shows are "dealers." And most certainly not
> > everyone is well versed. A buyers job is to be smarter than most sellers
> > and
> > loyal to those who are equal or better in knowledge and charge a fair price
> > in
> > exchange for the goods AND value added services you need or want.
> >
> Three sellers I asked at the Victoria show knew nothing about the
> Zuiko 85-250 zoom, even though two of them had significant OM
> stuff to sell and one claimed to be a long time OM user...
>
>
> Shawn & Janis Wright
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