I let you into a secret, I have caught this dreadful disease - acute ebayitis - each time I go near a computer, my fingers lock on the keyboard and I find I have bought another camera!
The idea started off simply to collect a selection to write about them for my camera web site, but like all alchoholics and gamblers, I find myself trying to avoid the downward path to the gutter!
Our friends commiserate with my wife and shake their head when they see my daughter's old wardrobe bulging with cameras.(the exact number is a state secret!) I tell them they are an "investment" but the fixed grins on their faces tell a different story!
So is it economic ruin or future prosperity? The thin line between madness and sanity is always so.
If I am to avoid an expensive divorce I think I had better decline your kind offer - mind you if one is labelled "Leica", I'll have it for $5 cash!
Paul
NB. Like the rest of the world, I blame the Americans for my demise! In the 1950s when the UK was starved of German quality cameras (60% sales tax believe it or not up to 1958) the US was prosperous and bought them in shed loads. Now these same Americans are passing away, your house clearers are putting them up for sale with no reserve and I just can't resist a bargain!