Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/14

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Subject: [Leica] Buy a beat-up M-2 for $300.00? Answer to B.D.
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Thu Jul 14 16:20:15 2005
References: <BEFC0750.276C%bdcolen@comcast.net> <20050714210115.46330.qmail@web51006.mail.yahoo.com>

Bill,
If you can pick up the camera and listen to the shutter that will tell
you about half of what can go wrong.  Next, take a look at the
rangefinder, if the patches are bright and they move when you focus a
lens then not much is wrong that can not be fixed with a CLA.

Last, smell the camera.  If you get normal metal and lubricant smell
with not mold, mildew, or chemical odors then probably you are looking
at a camera that has been used for forty years.

With a CLA and new leathers you will have a known quantity M2 in the
400 to 600 dollar range.  I am quoting high as the worst case is that
the camera goes to one of the true Leica specialists in Hong Kong,
Japan, or the U.S.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com

On 7/14/05, Bill Smith <wrs111445@yahoo.com> wrote:
> B.D. ---Your suggestion is very good except Korea is the land of "No Money 
> Back" (NMB). Among the 1,000 other things that sets this country apart 
> from the rest of the modern world is NMB. Apparently the shopkeeper would 
> "lose his face" (be disgraced) if he had to make a refund. So that's the 
> big problem w/ this beat-up M-2.
> 
> "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:Virtually everything could be 
> shot. But that's unlikely. And maximum damage
> could be more than the value of an M2 in today's market. But, again, it's
> unlikely that's the case. I'd ask him for a $ back guarantee that nothing 
> is
> wrong other than what's included in a CLA and recovering.
> 
>


Replies: Reply from wrs111445 at yahoo.com (Bill Smith) ([Leica] Buy a beat-up M-2 for $300.00? Thanks Don!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
In reply to: Message from bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Buy a beat-up M-2 for $300.00? What else?)
Message from wrs111445 at yahoo.com (Bill Smith) ([Leica] Buy a beat-up M-2 for $300.00? Answer to B.D.)