Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/19

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Subject: [Leica] Bargain M8s?
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Wed Mar 19 15:41:56 2008

I bought my R8 as a demo, and it came with a Leica warranty card.  So far 
after 4 years the R8 has worked perfectly.

Gene

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Lottermoser George <imagist3@mac.com>
>
> Quite true. I had similar experiences over the years.
> However, in some recent (last 12 months) discussions with people at  
> PhotoVillage they seemed perfectly willing to discuss the history of  
> various cameras which they listed as demos, used, etc. So  
> communication would seem to be in order if considering equipment  
> which is not sealed in an unopened box.
> 
> Fond regards,
> George
> george@imagist.com
> www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 19, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Harrison McClary wrote:
> 
> > I'd be VERY leary of buying any Leica DEMO labeled product.   
> > Several years ago I bought an R8 when it was new as a Demo...it had  
> > tons of problems and went back to leica 3 or 4 times at  
> > least...anyway finally they told me the camera was one someone had  
> > returned, been refurbed and then sold as a DEMO...I asked about  
> > this saying that I thought DEMO meant the camera had been used to  
> > demo the product...no I was told it can also mean one that was  
> > returned with problems and then fixed and resold.   This was told  
> > to me by a person, some lady whose name I forget, in the Leica head  
> > offices in NJ...if you are really adventurous you can do a search  
> > in the archives for my post from those days sometime in the late 90's.
> 
> 
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