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.
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