Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/15

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Subject: [Leica] Cameraleather.com
From: masonster at gmail.com (David Mason)
Date: Tue Mar 15 18:35:07 2005
References: <20050315233518.56160.qmail@web51005.mail.yahoo.com>

Really? Four months one lie and still no product? I thought I was
somewhat conservative in waiting to complain.


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:35:18 -0800 (PST), Bill Smith
<wrs111445@yahoo.com> wrote:
> You guys may be a little too critical--sounds like a typical, one-man 
> operation. He's always been prompt w/ me.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> Vick Ko <vick.ko@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hmmm. I've paid for two Levant leathers for an M4 and M3 recently.
> 
> There was one hiccup, when I asked to delay on delivery because the M3
> was in the mail and I wanted to check on dimensions before asking them
> to ship.
> 
> When my M3 arrived, I told them to ship, and two weeks later, he
> apologized and said that he had forgotten that I told him to ship.
> 
> I told them to ship Feb 18. It's almost a month now, and no leather in
> my mailbox yet.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vick Ko
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+vick.ko=sympatico.ca@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+vick.ko=sympatico.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> David Mason
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 3:09 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] Cameraleather.com
> 
> Though we are sometimes quick to complain about companies and their
> services on the list I feel completely justified to warn people away
> from cameraleather.com:
> 
> I have a small collection of cheapo rangefinders - canonets and the
> like. I ran across cameraleather back around the end of the year and
> thought it was just what I needed for my cool little Yashica Electro 35
> which had some bad gashes in the pleather.
> 
> I ordered a nice looking red leather kit for it and heard nothing for a
> month. I wrote an email to the owner, M. Sparks, to see where it was and
> was told that he had just finished the kit and I would have it in a
> week. Another couple weeks passed with no kit in sight and I wrote back
> and this time he backtrackes and told me that he had run out of that
> color and forgot to tell me, it would be in within the next week.
> 
> By February - nothing, by March - nothing. I have asked him for my money
> back but I feel entirely within my rights to pass on this story to warn
> others of this so-called service.
> 
> Sorry for the negative vibes man, but please think twice before dealing
> with this guy.
> 
> Dave
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Replies: Reply from chandos at cox.net (Chandos Michael Brown) ([Leica] Cameraleather.com)
In reply to: Message from wrs111445 at yahoo.com (Bill Smith) ([Leica] Cameraleather.com)