A couple of weeks I stopped by my local camera store on the way home form work here in Oregon. This is something I do on a regular basis to avoid the rush hour traffic. On this particular day, The store seemed a bit strange in appearance. The night before they had been burglarized or for you limies (burgled) 🙂 I was talking with the manage and it seems like the crooks did ok. They took a bunch of EMPTY nikon D70 boxes but managed to take some nice leica stuff including an MP , summicron , macro viewfinder and some fancy binoculars. Its really sad to see such nice gear just taken like that and propbably pawned for for10 cents on the dollar. None the less, I told him I would keep an eye out for it.
Thursday night, I am surfing Ebay and I see this really nice chrome MP with a black 50. Not an unusual item for ebay. what was odd about this was that the seller was in Oregon. oh well, could be lefit to. After all I have an MP and live in Oregon. I am sure I am not the only one. The next day,on the way home from work I stopped at the store and talked about my ebay search results. The manager gave me the serial numbers of the missing item so I could check it when I got home. Later that night, I brought up the MP on ebay and looked at the nice LARGE pictures of the camera from above and front shown the serial numbers on the hot shoe and the lens. well, what do you know. Its our missing camera. I placed a really high bid on the camera to secure it and sentthe seller an email saying I live in Oregon and was wondering if I could pick it up if I was the weinner. Meanwhile, I had also told the store about this and they were following up with the police. This Monday I received an email from the seller telling me Sure, come and pick it up. He even gave me his address in the town of dalles Or. I then contacted the store and gave them the details. I told them to tell the local police to confiscate the items.
Just 10 minutes ago I received an email from Ebay. Auction ended:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7505133916
Called the camera store and they said the police picked up everything except for the 50.
Not bad...
Thursday night, I am surfing Ebay and I see this really nice chrome MP with a black 50. Not an unusual item for ebay. what was odd about this was that the seller was in Oregon. oh well, could be lefit to. After all I have an MP and live in Oregon. I am sure I am not the only one. The next day,on the way home from work I stopped at the store and talked about my ebay search results. The manager gave me the serial numbers of the missing item so I could check it when I got home. Later that night, I brought up the MP on ebay and looked at the nice LARGE pictures of the camera from above and front shown the serial numbers on the hot shoe and the lens. well, what do you know. Its our missing camera. I placed a really high bid on the camera to secure it and sentthe seller an email saying I live in Oregon and was wondering if I could pick it up if I was the weinner. Meanwhile, I had also told the store about this and they were following up with the police. This Monday I received an email from the seller telling me Sure, come and pick it up. He even gave me his address in the town of dalles Or. I then contacted the store and gave them the details. I told them to tell the local police to confiscate the items.
Just 10 minutes ago I received an email from Ebay. Auction ended:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7505133916
Called the camera store and they said the police picked up everything except for the 50.
Not bad...
