Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 18:17:38 -0700 From: John Collier <jbcollier@powersurfr.com> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V21 #66 Message-ID: <B805F0C2.16335%jbcollier@powersurfr.com> References: >It is possible that the slow speeds died in transit. We are talking about >very old cameras and I have seen how parcels can get mishandled. I am >assuming that they took the body back? I would not myself buy a body that >old without budgeting for a complete overhaul. Yes, they did take the body back. This thing was *well*-packed when I received it. There was no sign of damage in transit, either to the package or its contents. If jostling about by UPS killed the slow speeds, the VT must have been a darned unreliable body. Your repeated "overhaul" argument is a work of supererogation and fails to address the fact that the equipment just plain *didn't work properly*. The slow speeds being *off* would not have surprised me (as a matter of fact, I expected it) - send it off for a CLA, and that's that. A CLA is one thing, a *repair* bill of who-knows-how-much is quite another. >I agree with the focus screen problem but they cannot afford to hire ex-NASA. It doesn't *take* a rocket scientist. Photo gear is their *business*, therefore why shouldn't I expect them to hire persons knowledgable in the field, at the very least to handle their inventory. >I have bought misidentified parts as well and I do mind paying shipping back as long as they pay it for getting the right part back to me. They didn't *have* the right part. K screens for F4s aren't the most common of items (they came with a B screen as standard equipment). >Do you ask your local camera store to reimburse your fuel costs if they make a mistake? No, because when I call my local shop and Tom tells me he has what I want, he *does*. He's competent enough to correctly identify his used stock, or to find someone who *can*, in the case of more obscure items. - -- CLB C. L. Basso, K.C.S., M.Sc. "In my opinion, he regarded the title Heretic as a stamp of honor - if truth begins with heresy." - --Evan S. Connell, /The Alchymist's Journal/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html