Cheapest M purchased?

[sepiareverb]

Originally Posted by buzzardkid

Since we're doing lenses as well: I bought a lot of five lenses and sold four of them for the purchase price: enter a free Super-Angulon 3.4/21mm, black with matching finder.

Nice. That's the way to do it. I've got plenty in my equipment, but nowhere near what I could have in it through this method, and being lucky enough to often be in a position to snap up things to resell if a good price is dangled in front of me more often than not.

[ddutchison]

I picked it up for $80 at Valu-Village.

It was sitting on the second shelf of their display case, right below a mint 35/f2 Nikkor that had originally caught my eye ($25 - I bought that too).

I stood flat against the case completely blocking any view of the contents until a worker could show me the camera. Walked home with it in a plastic bag in a daze.

[Vickko]

Well done, and in Vancouver too.

Wow

Originally Posted by ddutchison

I picked it up for $80 at Valu-Village.

It was sitting on the second shelf of their display case, right below a mint 35/f2 Nikkor that had originally caught my eye ($25 - I bought that too).

I stood flat against the case completely blocking any view of the contents until a worker could show me the camera. Walked home with it in a plastic bag in a daze.

[Thomas78]

My brother bought a M3 (single stroke), a Summarit 50 mm f/1.5, a Summaron 35 mm f/3.5 and a Elmar 90 mm f/4, many filters and some other photo stuff for 250 € - about 2 years ago...

[Travis L.]

Over 1.1mil M3 body in pretty rough cosmetic condition for $100. I figured I'd get her CLA'd and be good to go.
I never got that CLA, but ten years later she's still the smoothest M I own. About 75% of her original vulcanite was missing so I re-covered her with Aki Asahi 4008.

The photog that had her before me used her as a wide angle camera. Fitted with a 21 f4 and used professionally for about 30 years.
I had a chance to purchase that 21 when I got the camera but couldn't afford it at the time. The gentleman that did buy it passed away about a year ago and i was able to acquire the lens from his estate.
Now they're back together for good.

[Teuthida]

Free black paint m2.

About 15 years ago, a good friend told me he had a box of "junk" cameras in his closet tat had been bequeathed to him by his uncle, who apparently was a staff photographer for the NY Herald Tribune in the 50s and 60s. On showing me the box, it contained an M3, a black M2 and numerous lLeitz lenses and accessories. I told him I'd sell them all for him on EBay. Ithink I made him about $4000. In gratitude, he gave me the M2.

[ian_watts]

Originally Posted by dboxer

I tried to hide my shock when the thing was legit. We chatted. Was her mother's camera and she needed money for her kid's schoolbooks, so I felt good about offering $475.

Charming story.