I can chip in at the amounts suggested below USD 50?
Why not ?Lets hope Clint or John can enlighten us on the usefulness
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From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 6:57 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Oly parts
> OK, I agree, the second part of my post was unreasonable. I would still
kick
> in though, even from my lowly teacher's salary :)
>
> My suggestion is we wait to hear Clint's and John's thoughts and also have
> one or both of them request the entire inventory. Only they could tell us
> if it was worthwhile.
>
> Tom
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> From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 5:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Oly parts
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> > From: Thomas Heide Clausen <T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 23:15:41 +0100
> >
> > >On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:32:59 -0500
> > >"Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >>I'm actually quite serious. Perhaps they could keep track of our
> > >>contributions and give back a small percent against future
> > >>repairs.
> > >
> > >Well, *that* would probably be an administrative hell of
> > >dimensions to manage. If I was to chip in it should solely be for
> > >the fact that it would actually *increase* the possibility of
> > >getting gear maintained in the future. I trust that Clint and
> > >John spend their efforts better on repairing cameras than on
> > >doing bookkeping....
> >
> > My thoughts exactly. It's worth $100 or so to me just to know the
> > stuff's in good hands and that some part that's needed to fix
> > something I broke may actually be available a year or two hence.
> > Kind of like insurance: I don't expect a rebate if something
> > happens and I need it.
> >
> > >>has to be a way to make this work. There are roughly 600
> > >>members here. If we each put in $30, that would be an $18000 bid.
> > >
> > >Well, I'd say we are about 500 members or so - there are dublettes
> > >among the subscriptions and such :)
> >
> > Yeah, I'm one of the double-dippers, for reasons not worth
> > explaining. Does that mean I have to chip in twice if we do this?
> >
> > Walt
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