Originally posted by dansamy This isn't about your "best deal". We have a best deals thread...somewhere. This is about stuff you bought, new or used, that is still commonly available & was worth its price. No ultra rare stuff that you stumbled across an uninformed seller & "stole it".
If you're referring to my post, it was from a craiglist listing. The seller was a retired pentax shooter who knew exactly how much everything was going for but decided to sell everything as a package for a simple price. He explained to me that he tried selling it on ebay for the real market value but no one bought it. After talking in person and seeing his (massive) house I got the impression he was very well off and he said he simply wanted to get rid of the equipment gathering dust on his shelf. In fact he threw in the K1000 + sears lens for free after I bought the first kit.
Nothing was "stolen" here.