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Marilynne's Wetlands and Other Stuff 2016
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<blockquote data-quote="Marilynne" data-source="post: 534493" data-attributes="member: 10234"><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="color: #800080">I have my cameras and lenses registered on Lenstag. It's free and they're running a contest right now. Here's the letter I received from them.</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="color: #800080"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="color: #800080">[FONT=Arial, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]<span style="color: #333">Hi! </span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #333"></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #333">My name is Trevor Sehrer and I'm the founder of Lenstag. Everyone reading this email knows that it is wrong and potentially dangerous to buy used gear without checking it with Lenstag first. But given that gear keeps getting recovered, there are photographers out there that continue to unknowingly buy stolen items because they don't use Lenstag. </span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #333"></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #333">It's the same story over and over again. A photographer finds an "awesome deal" on a camera of their dreams and starts taking pictures with it. A few weeks or months goes by and Lenstag flags a photo taken with the stolen camera. Fast-forward to the police showing up at the photographer's house to recover the stolen gear and return it to its rightful owner. The buyer is out thousands of dollars — along with the camera of their dreams — and finds out the hard way that insurance won't cover buying and losing stolen gear. </span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #333"></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #333">We've come a long way since the pre-Lenstag world when buying stolen cameras was easy to get away with. But there's still a lot of work to do. Photographers everywhere need to check used gear before buying it. </span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #333"></span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #333">Help us spread the word. Please refer your photo industry and hobbyist friends with one of your unique referral links below. Send it to anybody you think would benefit from the free, simple, world-class protection of Lenstag. For each registered referral, you'll be entered for a chance to win one of 10 $100 B&H Photo Video gift certificates (and yes, they ship internationally). </span></span></span><span style="color: #800080">[/FONT]</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #800080"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #800080">[FONT=Arial, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]<span style="color: #333"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #333"><a href="https://www.lenstag.com/invite/%s" target="_blank">lenstag.com/invite/%s</a> </span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #333"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #333"><a href="http://lens.tg/i/%s" target="_blank">lens.tg/i/%s</a> (shorter link for Twitter) </span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #333"></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #800080"><span style="color: #333">I'll be ending the contest at 11:59:59 p.m. PT on Tuesday, March 15, 2016. </span>[/FONT][/FONT]</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #800080"></span>[/FONT]</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marilynne, post: 534493, member: 10234"] [B][FONT=comic sans ms][COLOR=#800080]I have my cameras and lenses registered on Lenstag. It's free and they're running a contest right now. Here's the letter I received from them. [FONT=Arial, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, sans-serif][COLOR=#333]Hi! My name is Trevor Sehrer and I'm the founder of Lenstag. Everyone reading this email knows that it is wrong and potentially dangerous to buy used gear without checking it with Lenstag first. But given that gear keeps getting recovered, there are photographers out there that continue to unknowingly buy stolen items because they don't use Lenstag. It's the same story over and over again. A photographer finds an "awesome deal" on a camera of their dreams and starts taking pictures with it. A few weeks or months goes by and Lenstag flags a photo taken with the stolen camera. Fast-forward to the police showing up at the photographer's house to recover the stolen gear and return it to its rightful owner. The buyer is out thousands of dollars — along with the camera of their dreams — and finds out the hard way that insurance won't cover buying and losing stolen gear. We've come a long way since the pre-Lenstag world when buying stolen cameras was easy to get away with. But there's still a lot of work to do. Photographers everywhere need to check used gear before buying it. Help us spread the word. Please refer your photo industry and hobbyist friends with one of your unique referral links below. Send it to anybody you think would benefit from the free, simple, world-class protection of Lenstag. For each registered referral, you'll be entered for a chance to win one of 10 $100 B&H Photo Video gift certificates (and yes, they ship internationally). [/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=#800080][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, sans-serif][COLOR=#333] [URL="https://www.lenstag.com/invite/%s"]lenstag.com/invite/%s[/URL] [URL="http://lens.tg/i/%s"]lens.tg/i/%s[/URL] (shorter link for Twitter) I'll be ending the contest at 11:59:59 p.m. PT on Tuesday, March 15, 2016. [/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT] [/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [/QUOTE]
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