On Tuesday, September 11, 2001 at 9:42, Olaf Greve
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on "RE: [OM] Property of
Olympus????," saying..
> Hi,
>
> > Anyone seen this item yet? An OM2n that was used by Olympus. BIN of
> > $1,200. Really rare or not?
> >
> > -Bill
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1273307916
>
> Apart from having several pieces of OM gear (not as a collection), I used to
> collect Iron Maiden records, and I have to say that this type of item is
> what can drive a collector on the verge of despair. Of course for a
> collector these are hot items (if, and only if, the item is authentic,
> otherwise it's nothing more than a somewhat rare pirated item -- called a
> bootleg in record collector's terms), and for records some people are
> willing to pay astronomical prices for them. There's a good Dutch saying for
> this type of situation, which goes something like: "The value of the item is
> whatever a fool is willing to pay for it", there is really a lot of truth in
> this saying.
...
In auctions you need 2 fools, or 1 shill + 1 fool.
Tom
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