Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc James Small wrote: > > Most higher-end Leica items aren't in 'sealed' boxes: they come in boxes > which a dealer can open and inspect. All right, now we are getting somewhere with this thread. So do any of you have experiences with certain dealers that DO open the boxes and DO inspect the product before handing(mailing, whatever) it to the customer? Or dealers that do not. Actually I am even more interested in just this particular buying_a_camera discussion. I am interested in the effects of cyberspace on everything from consumer issues to politics. This buying_a_camera, which I am actually going to do, is one more test case. I recently did similar cyber-shopping resulting in a purchase of a second hand 1992 Acura Vigor. I now have a beautiful white, with black leather interior, automobile with only 150,000 miles on it that does not use one drop of oil. All for one third the cost of a new car. 30mpg at 85mph and it will cruise at 120mph! But of course it is engineered and manufactured by the Japanese so what would you expect? Seattle to Boulder, Colorado through Montana with its unlimited speed limits here we come. But next time I will have(with much appreciated advise from the LUG) a M6 with 35mm and 90mm lens to take slides of the Tetons and my old stomping grounds in the Rockies. And my apparently unrepairable Retina IIIC and Retina IIIc will be left in an old shoe box under my bed in Seattle. Dale - -- $ dale-reed@worldnet.att.net Seattle, Washington U.S.A. $