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Subject: Re: [Leica] the sob and the idiot, an eBay story
From: Dr.Alexander.Kraus@gmx.de
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:39:00 +0200 (MEST)
References: <B9867D1B.1B102%pablokolodny@mac.com>

Hi Pablo,
I just took a look at the auction and I am wondering whether the whole thing
was a probably misunderstanding (note that I have no relations whatsoever to
the seller!). 
I am not a Rollei TLR specialist (after all this is a Leica forum ;-) and so
maybe I am wrong, but the seller stated that the thing is a *close-up* lens
for a *Tele*-Rolleiflex and you sound to me as if you were expecting to get a
mutar (like a tele extender) for a normal Rolleiflex.
Are you really sure the elements are plane? I suspect close-up lenses for a
tele-rollei with a longer focal length need to have less dioptrien than those
for a normal rolleiflex.
If my assumptions are wrong, I really feel sorry for you - too bad you
already posted a positive feedback :-(
Regards,
Alex
(Germany)





> Hi dear LUG'ers, 
> 
> this time is to tell a negative experience I had at eBay.
> basically I'm the jerk but the seller is the SOB.
> his name and email address is:
> 
> WilWatty <wilwatty@earthlink.net>
> 
> and his eBay ID is
> 
> shamta
> 
> The item I got from him was listed under the following
> 
> # 1366983677.
> 
> I'm speaking of a nice Tele Rolleinar 0.7.
> 
> I won the auction at an interesting pricing for what a Tele Rolleinar is.
> I asked a friend in NY to send payment to the seller, thing done
> immediately
> after the auction ended 'cause I wanted to have the item sent the sooner
> to
> my friend. His wife was coming down to Buenos Aires and I wanted her to
> take
> it to me. 
> The seller, then, rushed the item to my friend in NY once he got payment
> through PayPal. I asked my friend he check the item up for me before
> giving
> it away to his wife. He did so and told the item looked like new.
> As I suffer of anxiety I went to eBay to leave a positive feedback for the
> seller, even thanked he really rushed shipping and so on. Actually he
> didn't
> sound nice when writing via email. But that's another story.
> Finally I got the Tele Rolleinar and it really looked like new save some
> very little marks of usage. I placed it on my Tele Rollei and guess what.
> It doesn't work. No modification it's seen when looking through the lens.
> Nothing. Glasses seem to be pieces of window panes.
> 
> I sent to this person more than 3 messages asking him to have my money
> back
> and, of course, I'd be sending back the item to him.
> He never responded. NEVER.
> And I, the big jerk of the story, have already placed some positive
> feedback
> for him before checking how the item behaved in situ.
> 
> Just wanted to let you know the story.
> 
> 
> Now, what the hell is supposed I do with this fucked poor Tele Rolleinar ?
> Can the glasses be replaced by the original ones ?
> Some one selling a very broken Tele Rolleinar chassis or skeleton but with
> nice glasses ? 
> I'm a user, I use my Tele Rollei for work, I love that camera and need
> both
> Rolleinars, I already got the 0,35 and is working great.
> 
> Now... some suggestions please.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> The idiot
> 
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