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  • the price of "vintage" and film

    From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to apam on Sat Nov 21 20:49:00 2020
    Hello apam!

    ** On Sunday 22.11.20 - 09:10, apam wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

    Are op-shops what we call thrift shops? Around here the
    price on my favorite item, film cameras, has gone way
    up. I used to buy Olympus Mju-IIs for $5, now they're
    $50, and $150 on eBay!

    I think so. Op-Shop is short for opportunity shop, they're
    stores run by charities that sell items people donate.

    I know exactly how you feel with regards to the cameras, I
    used to be able to pay $20 for a Commodore 64 plus disk
    drive tape deck joysticks etc etc. Now it would be at
    least 10 times that.

    There a thrift/vintage shop in my town that operates exactly
    like that. There have a full-time volunteer there looking
    through eBay and other places to "price" the unusual items
    they may have. Something that you might see for $10 before
    would be priced much higher.


    I recently went to dust off one of my film cameras..

    ah that sucks. Is it more difficult to find film as well now?

    I will be in a situation like that soon. My mom took some
    pictures of things a couple years before she died. That was 8
    years ago now. I'd like to send the rolls to get them
    processed if only to get a sense of closure.

    --- OpenXP 5.0.47
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