[rollei_list] Re: How rare is a Rollei with a Biometar?
- From: Javier Perez <summarex@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Rollei List <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:24:19 -0400
I know the difference. I have a few rarities that won't fetch much!
But I have a lot more items that used to be considered rare until Ebay showed
up!
Later
Javier
> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 11:21:03 -0400
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: How rare is a Rollei with a Biometar?
>
> At 11:07 AM 10/5/2009, Javier Perez wrote:
>
>
> >That's about 1000 dollars rare but not 2000 dollars rare!
> >
>
> Javier
>
> Never confuse rarity with value, as the two are
> only loosely linked. I have some one-off Zeiss
> lenses which are rare -- and which would bring
> $5.00 at a Christie's auction. The relatively
> common reflex housings for the Contax RF system
> and their associated lenses bring mega-bucks, on
> the other hand, as do the two-lenses stereo rigs
> for the Contax and for the Leica RF.
>
> In any event, there is a free market at play
> here, and the value of a 2.8B is what the market
> will bear. McKeown's Law applies -- the proper
> value is what a willing seller will take and a
> willing buyer will fork over. A 2.8B is not
> worth a thousand dollars to me, but, then, I
> would never use it due to its rarity -- and I am
> a user, not a collector. A camera of this sort
> ought to go to Tamarkin's auctions or the like to
> test the collector market as very few of the big
> collectors spend much time on eBay any more.
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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