Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/03

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Subject: [Leica] M8 Coming Home
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Tue Apr 3 13:21:34 2007

4 weeks the longest for me with NJ.  But most are back in 3 weeks.

-------------- Original message from Dave Mason <leica@dmason.net>: 
-------------- 


> Brian Reid writes: 
> 
> >> I would think that Leica, having a smaller base of customers (& a 
> >> higher pricetag) would have at least as good customer service. 
> > 
> > You'd think. Alas, Leica USA has the worst customer service of any 
> > company I have ever encountered. Even superstars like Tina get 
> > 6-week turnaround, and ordinary mortals get 12 weeks or more. 
> > 
> 
> I've only sent one lens, one time to Leica USA - it took about three 
> months for them to do their thing - but that wouldn't have been so bad 
> if they had actually given me ANY communication. I was starting to 
> worry that the lens had been lost in shipping, lost in the Leica 
> office, stolen, who knows. I called many times to ONLY get voice 
> mail. Never got a return call at all, never any indication that they 
> even knew about my lens besides the very slow arriving initial cost 
> estimate. All it would have taken for me to be happy was one simple 
> email giving me some sort of time-line... and assuring me of its 
> safety. I am not convinced Leica USA knows about email yet. 
> 
> Now, I go to Sherry. 
> 
> 
> Dave 
> 
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