Saw a 35mm SLR camera at the Goodwill today and the clowns stuck the price tag on the middle of the lens. Laugh or cry?
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Re: amusing/heartbreaking goodwill story
Yeah, it's horrible when you see stuff like that. At this one thrift shop in Culver City I saw a bunch of Canon SLRs that had just been tossed together in one big grab-bag box. No lens caps, the lenses probably ruined, just awful. The idjits didn't know or care about what they had.Rick Palidwor wrote:Saw a 35mm SLR camera at the Goodwill today and the clowns stuck the price tag on the middle of the lens. Laugh or cry?
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Re: amusing/heartbreaking goodwill story
A bit under 20 years or so ago I was working in a 2nd hand HiFi & Camera shop. Come Christmas the owner's very stupid girlfriend decided to show some initiative and spread some seasonal cheer by festifying (is that a real word???) the window display. She bought a can of fake snow, got into work early, and sprayed it all over the equipment in the window, including on the chassis and valves of a pair of QUAD II Monoblock Valve/Tube amps and several top-quality SLR kits, some of which had no caps on the front of the lenses.
Needless to say it took a loooonnnnggggg time to clean up, and even then a lot of the items could not be brought back to their former good condition. I can't remember whether or not anything was terminally damaged.
She couldn't work out what she had done wrong despite being shouted at by all & sundry. Ignorance really is bliss sometimes I guess...
Needless to say it took a loooonnnnggggg time to clean up, and even then a lot of the items could not be brought back to their former good condition. I can't remember whether or not anything was terminally damaged.
She couldn't work out what she had done wrong despite being shouted at by all & sundry. Ignorance really is bliss sometimes I guess...