Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, your posts are positively lyrical, today. I include BFH in that category. Information presented in an entertaining way; you could be a cable channel. Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marc James Small Sent: Sunday, 3 September 2006 08:41 To: Leica Users Group; Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] So how do our friends at Solms handle their customers? At 05:54 PM 9/2/2006, Scott McLoughlin wrote: >I've bought my Leica stuff used and sent it to Don Goldberg >for repairs. > >But I'm curious. Any "virtues of the Passport Warranty" stories >out there? What is most likely to go wrong on a new body? I >can think of dropping it, but what else? I have had Passport Service on my Leitz Televid-77 Spotting Scope, all components of which were purchased new. At one point, a lens jammed on the Televid and I sent them off for service. They repaired the scope and charged me a nominal fee for reasons which escape me, but replaced the lens at no charge. The total was about the same as the shipping, so I was hardly upset. I have never purchased any Leica camera body or lens new, but then none have ever needed service other than the single occasion on which my first M3 needed an upgrade on its rewind knob and the dozen or more times when that horror of an M4 needed service -- SOMETHING was always out of whack on it. I finally learned how to adjust everything myself, got it into good order, and immediately sold it. Never another M4. I now have a IIIc, IIIf RDST, and a IIIg, and an M3 DS and a Wetzlar M6, all of which function flawlessly. None of my Leitz or Leica camera lenses have ever needed attention. For something that will experience back-country treatment, as my APO-Televid does, I'd buy new for the Passport. For normal use (that is, bar-room brawls and less), I'd trust in the essential toughness of the gear and buy used. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information