Re: [Leica] FS: brand-new black M6TTL 0.85

["res02bd8" <res02bd8@gte.net>]

NYCV is selling M6 TTL .85 New for $1,900 and Leica will give the purchaser
$150 rebate for a net cost of $1,750 USA Passport warranty in users name.

I know I ordered one

Dave Mishalof

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Moore" <jbm@oven.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 2:53 PM
Subject: [Leica] FS: brand-new black M6TTL 0.85


> Why, you might ask, would I be selling a shiny new camera instead of
> simply not having bought it?
>
> Perhaps you'll recall my whining on the list about a new M6TTL whose
> rangefinder was out-of-whack (although only dramatically noticeable with
> the 135/3.4) and which sucked batteries dry like a dockyard... well, it
> had a power consumption problem.  I sent it in Leica for repair, and
> waited.  And waited.  Finally, I got a note to the effect that they'd be
> replacing the camera with a whole new one.
>
> Now, I commend them for choosing to take this step.  And I'm guessing
> that they waited until a newer, less buggy generation of camera
> electronics had been fielded -- the new body has a markedly higher
> serial number.  But by now (13 months after the adventure began) I
> have a black-paint 0.85x M6TTL on order, and keeping this body would
> be almost criminally excessive.  So, by dint of remarkable willpower,
> I haven't popped this one out of the box and started using it.
>
> Brand new.  In box.  US stock.  The only downside is that they appear
> to have pulled the warranty card and registered the Passport coverage
> to me before shipping -- so it'd be sort of functionally like buying a
> greymarket camera for the purchaser.
>
> I see new black M6TTL/0.85s advertised for about $2100; I figure I'd
> take $1800.  I'll even pay shipping in the continental US.  (Even
> better, I'll gladly deliver to a bar in NYC and buy a round of drinks).
>
> If the transaction's handled by mail, the usual rules: you send money,
> I verify that the money's money (unless you're a name familiar to me
> in a good way from the LUG), I send camera, you keep same unless it
> isn't as I've described it.
>
> Who wants it?  Please reply off-list: jbm@oven.com
>