Henning, I can relate your experience. Last year I sent a mint looking Pentax Spotmatic F to a repair person who was highly recommended on the Pentax list. A common CLA was all it needed. I received back a camera that looked very used but with the same top cover with obviously the same serial number. But the rest of the body and bottom plate were badly marred up. I knew it was not the same body because I had photogaphed it carefully before I sent it and had noted a tiny mark on the inside of the body film cavity which was not in the one I got back.. I contacted the repair person and he told me the body I had sent him was beyond repair and he felt he was doing me a good service by "giving" me a body that was working well. I replied that I had wanted this particular camera for my collection as it looked in a very clean condition. With much complaint he repaired the original body and sent me a bill for over $250 because he said he had to completely repair the shutter which had come off the rails. It had functioned fine before I sent it in for the CLA. Plus, the second time it came back the corners of the top body plate were abraded and it no longer looked in mint condition. I can't quite figure out how that would have happened in shipment as he claimed it must have. It was well wrapped in bubble wrap. So the moral of the story is, be very careful who you trust your equipment to.
Dave----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning Wulff" <henningw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:18 PM Subject: Re: Infrared conversions - a cautionary tale
At 5:25 PM -0500 1/11/07, Tina Manley wrote:At 05:04 PM 1/11/2007, you wrote:The 350D that I now have was sent to David Burren in Australia, and while the process was somewhat slow, the results were excellent. He appeared to be quite busy, and now has transferred his conversion business to another company. I can only assume that the quality of the conversion by the new company will also be excellent, as he and the company seem to have a close relationship.-- * Henning J. WulffThanks, Henning. If more people used the internet to report cases like this, we would eventually get rid of all of the scammers out there.TinaTina,I think sometimes people feel ashamed that they've been taken advantage of, and don't want to let people know that.That just plays into the hands of the scammers. My feeling is that just because I've been dealing honestly and in a forthright manner I've nothing to feel ashamed about just because I've placed trust in a stranger.I've had a couple of hundred transactions over the internet; often money has been sent directly to individuals whom I've never met, and in all cases except this one I've been rewarded with honest people at the other end, and have made a few friends. I guess those aren't bad odds, but the dishonest people should still be held to the light.In this case I'm assuming he damaged the camera during the process of conversion and didn't want to own up to that.-- * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com =========================================================To Unsubscribe: Send email to leica-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. The acknowledgment that you then receive MUST be replied to per instructions. You may also log in to the Web interface to unsubscribe.
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