You mean you stood on the corner and sold yourself to little old ladies?
Naughty Zuikoholic. /jnm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim Caldwell
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 6:26 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [OM] So much for winding down.....
>
>
> Been there, done that....! {;>)
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Scott Gomez <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: March 12, 2001 7:28:05 AM GMT
> Subject: RE: [OM] So much for winding down.....
>
>
> My complete and utter gratitude to both Tom and Chip for being at
> least two
> time-zones ahead of me today. Otherwise I suspect it would have been my
> finger twitching with the mouse hovering over "buy it now".
>
> ....followed shortly thereafter by thoroughly nauseating news reports of a
> rather unattractive 47 year old man selling himself from the street corner
> in Hollywood to elderly women "for a good time" in order to raise
> some quick
> cash.
>
> ---
> Scott Gomez
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Scales [mailto:tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 16:48
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] So much for winding down.....
>
>
> Well, today I went completely nuts. OK, I could understand the
> big kit on
> ebay. It was a decent price (not a big profit maker). Mostly I
> bought it to
> help Chip out, yeah, yeah, that's it.
>
> I really wanted the 40/2. In a silly fit of 'fear of
> overspending', I sold
> mine. Why, oh why. So, what do I do? I spend $4000 to get it
> back. Well,
> with some other toys.
>
> OK, that's bad enough. But (ain't there always a But?).
>
> Did any of you see the post earlier today of the large kit to the
> OM-Traders
> list? Somebody did, because you bought a 35/2 from him. Well, I
> spent the
> day emailing back and forth with him, sharing what the equipment
> was worth,
> in my opinion. In the end, I succumbed (not a word I get to use
> very often)
> and made him an offer. Again, not a steal, but a pretty fair
> price for him.
> Oh no, he accepted.
>
> Anybody need anything <g>?
>
> Tom "Spent way too much" Scales
>
>
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