Re: [Leica] Camera Condition Codes

["Robert L. Clark" <bobclark1@home.com>]

Now we're getting somewhere!  Were these condition descriptions designed by
the same folks that gave us the code for EGGS (jumbo) and OLIVES (colossal)?
Nothing small, nothing bad.


- -----Original Message-----
From: leica@olemiss.edu <leica@olemiss.edu>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 7:14 PM
Subject: [Leica] Camera Condition Codes


>15 Jan 1999 15:49:34,  Robert L. Clark" <bobclark1@home.com> wrote:
>
>> >>Lastly, why is it when I try and find a lens for leica via
>> >>'shutterbug/internet' type searches, I enevitably find the suffix - 9,
>> >>or 9++, or mint, or some signs of use.... ect. WHERE are the turds!
>
>> These ARE the turds!!!  The just don't describe them that way.  The whole
>> nature of this mail-order and long-distance business is to over-state the
>> condition of the equipment
>
>To help the less experienced buyers, the Self-Appointed Committee to
>Clarify Our Language Usage (SACCOLU--SAC O' for short) has put together
>a glossary of important words and phrases--and what they really mean,
>when used in mail order/internet transactions.
>
>Condition Codes:
>
>New, in the box almost new, with a box
>New                     almost new without a box
>As new                  used, but sold 'as new'
>Like new                used, but not engraved
>Mint not heavily used or engraved
>Ex+++ not heavily used, may be engraved
>Ex+ heavily used and engraved
>Ex still recognizable as a camera
>Ex- no longer recognizable as a camera
>Very good may not be a camera
>C10 anything 'Ex' or above
>C9...etc. anything below 'Ex'
>
>Kirk Turk