Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard, Is it always raining wherever you go? You seem to have the worst luck. Now that you're retired you should be enjoying yourself and not fighting the Camera companies and shippers. Maybe it's good you're retired. Now you have the time to run around and handle these aggravations. Cheers, Len On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:07 PM, Howard Cummer wrote: > Hi Luggers, > > Remember the replacement M8 that I received on China's National Day > Holiday, Oct 1st, that was delivered by Fedex to me by taxi?? The > one that replaced my original broken shutter M8 which DHL lost for > a month? Well, the replacement has developed a serious case of dead > pixels and is now on its way, via the Leica agent in Hong Kong, > back to Solms for likely replacement. Please see: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hong+Kong+Pix/ > L9994018Xw.jpg.html > > http://tinyurl.com/3yvl6r > > I am being treated nicely by Schmidt - they are not charging me the > usual HK$500 handling fee - and they have managed to find me a > loaner M8 so I am still out shooting - but I am beginning to have > some doubts about the reliability of M8's - I should hasten to add > "in my hands" because most owners seem not to have had any trouble > at all. I expect the turn around via Schmidt will be six weeks to > two months but I don't care so much since I have a loaner - and > hopefully the camera won't get lost this time. > > I am reminded that it took me three tries to get a properly > operating RD-1 so hopefully I will be third time lucky with the M8. > > A subdued "cheers" this time from Hong Kong > > Howard. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information