Post them and hope for the best, atleast it will be going to pdml member. Or you can give people clues and the one that finds the site first wins the prize. sorry before work i caught an episode of this bizzare kids show called Blues Clues :) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:22 AM Subject: scarce primes at great prices; how to share the news? > I have just discovered a link to a dealer in Europe that is selling the > 35/2A and the 200/2.5M--two scarce Pentax primes--at less than half what I > typically see them sell for. The list was just updated March 6, so the > lenses might well still be there. > > What's the protocol for sharing this information with the group? If I just > tell everyone the URL now, the first person to get there and order will > grab it (or them.) I'll make no secret of the fact that I prefer that > scarce lenses go to users rather than collectors. > > At these prices, there's a chance that these lenses are rather beat up, in > which case a collector would not be as interested. This dealer generally > sells at market value; I bought my 105/2.8 SMC there for $260, and the > company was selling a 28/2.0 SMC for $280 in October 2000. > > But it pains me to think that some struggling Joe or Ivan has been > desperately seeking one of these lenses at an affordable price, and that if > I post the URL now, the lenses will get snapped up by some comfortable > collector who happened to beat him to the URL. > > What should I do? > > > Paul Franklin Stregevsky > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (You might wheedle me by email, but call me by telephone and you stand no > chance of getting the URL out of me.) > > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > > - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
