If you're still interested in an MX, I'm selling one of mine in order to raise
cash for an MZ-S. It's in beautiful condition and functioning *perfectly*.
Email me for more info if you like.
Mark
"Bucky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So I bought an MX from Kerrisdale Cameras here in Vancouver. They are a
>largish local chain that has a reasonable selection of used equipment. I
>paid a fairly hefty price for it that I would have considered reasonable if
>it had been in the condition it looked upon first examination. All used
>bodies come with a 30-day warranty.
>
>I bought it on 4 August. Upon getting it home, I found that the meter
>worked only intermittently, that the infinity focus was gone (but only
>slightly; some lenses that are able to focus at slightly past infinity did
>not reveal the camera's problem), and the shutter button popped entirely out
>of the camera and landed n the ground. I was not happy; none of this had
>revealed itself to me in the in-store test.
>
>I took it back for servicing on the Monday following (the 6th). At the same
>time, I looked for another body I liked and thought I'd exchange it, but
>there was nothing I wanted. I agreed to have them send it out for service.
>
>Today, I went in to find out when my camera would be done, since Monday
>would be the two-week milestone. I asked a helpful sales associate to look
>up where it had been shipped to, since Patrick, the service guy, had seemed
>a bit elusive about where he would send the camera for service. The helpful
>sales guy looked in the book where they keep track of serviced cameras,
>found my body, but could find no notation about where it was gone.
>
>He sent me back to Patrick, the service guy. Here is the conversation as it
>went:
>
>Me: "Hi. I have a black MX in for service. I want to know where it's been
>sent for repair."
>Him: "Oh, that camera is not at Pentax."
>Me: "OK. Where is it."
>Him: "We have some other service center. It's not at Pentax."
>Me: "Fine. I'm asking you where it IS, not where it's NOT."
>Him: "It's not at Pentax and it's not at VanCam."
>Me: "WHERE HAS IT BEEN SENT?"
>Him: "It will be sent out Monday. It hasn't been sent anywhere yet."
>
>I asked for (and received) a full refund, although he certainly did not seem
>to understand how utterly shoddy this kind of service is.
>
>GRRRRRR.
>
>
>
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