$8000 Nikon F3

I had to look this up, as I thought this was commemorating the Polynesian people in some way. Apparently refers to a Japanese magazine of that name, who commissioned this edition.

Price is now down to $6K, which is still $5500 more than I would pay for an F3 in new condition.
 
A clean F3 HP is selling for $150 right now. Why pay $6000+_ more for a similar F3 HP (with a logo?)?
 
If the seller's grammar is any indication ("NIKON F3 Lapita Only 100 Make Brand New"), he is from some far-off land assuming the rubes here will pay him 30 times what he likely paid for it. If even that. Hope springs eternal...
 
Somebody failed to notice that the bottom has dropped out of "limited edition" collectables for good.
 
Huss said:
"Production lot number of 80 is also a good number among the 100 units."
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Like torturing dogs before they murder and eat them back home in Yulin Province. Or sending a bill to political prisoner's family for the executioner's bullet. Or selling the organs to the highest bidder after the coup de grace. Everything is lucky or legal in the Republic that isn't.
 
james.liam said:
Like torturing dogs before they murder and eat them back home in Yulin Province. Or sending a bill to political prisoner's family for the executioner's bullet. Or selling the organs to the highest bidder after the coup de grace. Everything is lucky or legal in the Republic that isn't.
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Huh?? Why do you think this comment belongs in this thread???
 
Inspired by the likely source of this great find. Inspiration is everything and comes from unlikely places, like a Lapita. Whatever that may be...

Or maybe by the Leica 50 Rigid I bought that never quite focused correctly. When sent in for a costly CLA, I was informed by the noted repair shop that mine was among quite a few he'd recently seen and originating, he discovered, from workshops in "East Asia"; damaged old lenses were broken up and reassembled using the best looking parts, mixing elements and cells so the whole looked cosmetically perfect but the choice of internal workings were random and not matched, as they had originally been by Leica. That sort of inspiration.

Makes a handsome paperweight now.
 
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