Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/07

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Value of Lost Equip.
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 17:35:17 -0400

At 07:49 AM 10/7/96 -0700, Eric Welch, authority and man of weight, wrote:

>At 10:05 PM 10/6/96 -0400, Marc James Small, eternal student, wrote:

>>them to provide an estimate for insurance purposes.  Some won't help you
>>without charging but others will -- I suspect Dan Black, for instance, and
>>Stan Tamarkin would be willing to help, though both are quite involved for
>>the next week or ten days.  And, of course, ask the insurance company
>>adjustor first to see what they want.
>
>How about mentioning if they do well, you'll buy from them? Like implying
>"to the highest bidder." I guess that's fraud, but it seems somehow just,
>since Insurance companies automatically go to the lowest bidder on dents in
>the car.

I don't follow:  you want to lie to the dealers providing the estimates
because the insurance company may cheat you?  I think the equities are a bit
off on this one, old boy.

Marc

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