Good deal! The F70-210/4-5.8 is not a bad catch either! Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a love/hate relationship with Craigslist. I live in a low > population density area where the relatively close-by Craigslist deals > are few and far between. The "big city" Craigslist is hardly worth > looking at, since I will have next-to-no-chance of getting there first > 99% of the time. It is normally psyche-damaging to even look at what > is/was available there that I have no chance of getting. Yesterday was > an exceptional exception. > > Checked Craigslist before getting down to work yesterday morning and > was dismayed to see that THIS ad had been placed the middle of the > afternoon (the day before): > http://www.antiqueauto.org/assets/pZ-1pKitCraigslist.png > No phone number in the ad (thankfully) so I hit the email and asked > him to please consider it "sold" to me (if it was still available). I > explained that I lived hours away, but had a sister/bro-in-law in his > town that would do the transaction for me (or so I *hoped*). Then I > dashed off a plea for help in getting there first to my sister & > bro-in-law (not knowing if it had already been sold, which I strongly > suspected it probably had been). > > Complicating matters further was the fact that I would not be in the > office (at my email/phone) as I would be busy on a remote video shoot > for my employer for the entire morning. Working in my favor, for the > first time, was my 3G iPad 2. During a mid-morning break I was able to > use it to check my work email (remotely). First, the seller had > responded and said that it was indeed still available but that he also > had another guy interested. He gave me both his address and phone > number, so I immediately called him. I assured him that I was > definitely purchasing it and that I just had to figure out who was > getting it and what time would work for all concerned. The seller was > home all day, so that was a big plus. I implored him to consider it > sold to me and found out that he had not given his phone number or > address to the other guy (at least not yet). > > My brother-in-law, who worked in the same quadrant of the city, was > kind enough to do the transaction for me over his lunch break. The > seller confirmed with me via email that he had indeed made the > purchase (only later confirmed by my BIL). And there was Great > Rejoicing. > > I plan on selling the body and two lenses to both reimburse my > brother-in-law and buy him a nice restaurant gift certificate for he > and my sister for making it all possible. The "free" F 100mm f2.8 > macro goes in the bag. It will be my first Pentax macro longer than > 50mm and also my first AF macro lens. Looking forward to doing some > PESOs with it. People seem to really like that lens (and it's > brethren). > > So my iPad 2 basically just paid for itself by facilitating that one > purchase (although a smart phone would have allowed something similar, > if I had opted for a smartphone instead). > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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