On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > > And this is a bad thing in what way? :) You can buy an awful lot of ES > > II's for the price of one FM3a. > > Huh? Truly MINT ( Like New ) ESII's are extremely hard to find and > arent cheap when you do. It can take years just to find ONE let alone > an "awful lot" of them. The ES models ( which I prefer ) are just as > tuff in top notch condition. Now, worn and even worse UGLY ones are a > different matter altogether, but who wants those?
Well, there's a huge middle ground between "truly mint" and "ugly." I picked up a very nice chrome ES (which I prefer to the ESII, mainly because of the battery) for very little money. A quick search on eBay turns up *13* ES and ESII's, several of which are advertised as in excellent or better condition. Even if you factor in the cost of a CLA for each body, you can still get at least 5 or 6 ES bodies for the price of one FM3a. chris
