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Colin1974

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What is the greatest bargain you've ever purchased?

Nearly a year ago, I bought a mint X2 (no outer box or software) with grip and spare battery for £450.

A few months later, I got an X-Vario with grip (also mint), but no packaging or software, for £850.

 

Colin.

 

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I bought an X2 in very fine condition, in its original box, and with the leather Leica case, for €500, from a professional photographer who said she preferred her huge DSLRs and had found no use for the little wonder (which is what I would call it). I chastised her for her ignorance by talking €90 off her original asking price. Justice was served. 

 

I bought my X Vario new, but for some reason it was on sale for €1.700. The next day, however, the price had reverted to the normal level, a few hundred more. It included Lightroom 6. 

 

Both are wonderful machines.

 

Ceterum censeo the X Vario deserves a firmware update.

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I got my x2 for £680 (as good as new condition, original box etc...) just after Christmas. I had missed out on one on MPB that was being sold for £580 around the same time, I'm sure I could have got one a bit cheaper but I was impatient! I still think the price wasn't too bad though... 

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I got my X Vario last summer, mint, including half case, grip and two batteries for £800 (I think), and I already had the EVF2. It's a marvellous camera. And I got an almost mint Sony A7II for the same amount the previous year, so I am well covered for when the M9P has to go off on its hols.  :)

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As it turns out, there are two kinds of bargains.  I have yet to find any bargains (for the buyer) that have the red dot attached to them. 

 

A while back, I did see a flea market type camera store that was attempting to sell a run down used 35mm Summicron for 90% of the price of a new 35 Summicron.  That's what I'd call a "bargain" - for the seller. :rolleyes:

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My best bargain is for the barely used X1 with Leica shoe mount finder, both cases, and an extra battery, all boxes and papers with an unused LR license for under $700 (this was at least 4 years ago). Recently the same seller offered to sell me the X2 (also barely used) for $250. Think I might jump on that, but the X1 has been so good, I don't really need the X2.

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I ordered a used X-Vario last week, which the dealer described as including only the camera and battery for $1050.00. When I opened the shipping box this week, I found an X-Vario box, still in the factory shrink wrap. I'm the happy owner of a new X-Vario.

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