[Leica] Korea

[jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)]

As Jerry Seinfeld mentions in one of his episodes, when you buy fruit,
you take a chance...there's no refunds. I would think that goes for
heavily used cameras. Caveat Emptor.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




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From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Bill
Smith
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 6:21 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Korea


You were very lucky--customer service is not part of the
culture--especially on returns.

Curtis Fant <surrealistic@cox.net> wrote:I beg to differ. I was in Seoul
for over a year and all of the camera shops I dealt with were up front.
They would make good things that broke too, for example a toyo view
camera that I cracked one of the standards on. Every shop I dealt with
in Korea was very honest and they wanted the buyer to be happy, even if
they had to work that a little on the other end to make it happen.

Curtis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Bill Smith 
To: Leica Users Group 
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Buy a beat-up M-2 for $300.00? Answer to B.D.


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" 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.


On 7/14/05 11:48 AM, "Bill Smith" wrote:

> Well--I can understand those numbers, but what else (hidden defects/
> malfunctions) could be wrong and what would be the max. damage (cost)?
> 
> Didier Ludwig wrote:Bill
> 
> Buy it and let it CLA! You get a nice leatherette at 
> http://www.cameraleather.com/ for around $40. This will make 420$ for 
> a CLA'd M2 with a fancy leatherette - a good price. Otherwise buy it 
> for me! ;-)
> 
> Didier
> 
> 
>> The other day, I saw an M-2 for sale that has little-to-no covering 
>> left and has "rangefinder" (adjustment?) problems according to the 
>> owner. Would it be cost-effective to get a CLA, new covering, etc. 
>> for that price? A CLA here in Korea is about $80.00 by a very 
>> competant tech. Bill
> 
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