Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > >