Re: [Leica] Passport Un-Warranty (Not TRUE!)

["Dan S" <dstate1@hotmail.com>]

So are you expecting your auto-warranty to cover theft also?
Would you buy a new car without a warranty?
The warranty is just that, a WARRANTY, not insurance.

Your home-owners insurance should cover theft, and frankly you would have to 
be an idiot to loose a Leica.
Also, based on the conversations here on the LUG, FAR more of us have 
dropped our cameras than had them stolen!(I even remember someone dropping 
their camera in the toilet!)

I have NEVER had a camera stolen, but I have dropped damn near all of them 
at one time or another.

Dan States




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>Now, before you buy a camera with the "passport"
>warranty, go in the bathroom, close the door, take off
>your shirt, look in the mirror, and see if you have
>the word "SUCKER" tattooed on your chest.
>
>The Passport warranty DOES NOT COVER theft or loss.
>These are your too greatest areas of exposure.  Would
>you buy auto insurance that didn't cover theft?  Of
>course not.  Also, the thing they don't tell you is
>that the passport warranty DOES NOT COVER cosmetic
>damage.  Oh yes, what do you do if you are out of the
>country and you have a problem?  Well, you are out of
>lock, because you have to return the camera to Leica
>USA....got-cha.
>
>Of course,  the dealers selling passport warranty
>cameras will try and scare you into buying a passport
>camera playing on your fears of not being able to get
>it serviced, etc.  Don't buy it.  Any good dealer who
>sells NON-passport Leica equipment will  be able to
>take care of getting it serviced for you.  Just ask
>them.
>
>Plus, if the passport warranty is such a great deal,
>why don't they off the camera, lens, etc. without it?
>The reason is, nobody would buy it.
>
>Now, if you are planning to buy an R8, disregard all
>of the above.
>
>The moral to this story is:
>
>Don't buy insurance from a camera dealer, and don't
>buy a camera from your insurance agent.
>
>Bill
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