In other (good) news about Adorama, just received a 30 x 20 metallic print from them....it's simply stunnnnnning, awesome print job, Adorama !! Thx !!
As for my used 1Dmk2 that I bought from them, I did see pictures of it before purchasing and there was a 90-Day warranty as well. This case of the 200 1.8 seems a 1-off... heck, I would have bought it if I had known about the 14 day return !
If Adorama had corporate testes and an examplary sense of fairness, they would compensate Yakim Peled for his major expenditure of time on the subject auction as well as mental anguish which has been caused by Adorama's error in the description of the lens in question.
As an example, a compensation might take form of Adorama offering to Yakim Peled another 200 f/1.8 lens at, say, cost+10% basis, whereby the "cost" is defined as money Adorama paid towards the acquisition of the said lens.
PetKal wrote:
As an example, a compensation might take form of Adorama offering to Yakim Peled another 200 f/1.8 lens at, say, cost+10% basis, whereby the "cost" is defined as money Adorama paid towards the acquisition of the said lens.
Doing that for Yakim would make me an Adorama customer. Just saying.
PetKal wrote:
If Adorama had corporate testes and an examplary sense of fairness, they would compensate Yakim Peled for his major expenditure of time on the subject auction as well as mental anguish which has been caused by Adorama's error in the description of the lens in question.
As an example, a compensation might take form of Adorama offering to Yakim Peled another 200 f/1.8 lens at, say, cost+10% basis, whereby the "cost" is defined as money Adorama paid towards the acquisition of the said lens.
Hey, I like this idea a lot. Actually, as they are rare, 200/2 IS under the same conditions would also be welcomed. Helen?
please. adorama owes no one anything. The only thing that might warrant being done would be re-run the auction, with the correct disclaimers. the only thing that would result is the price would be higher. Frankly, I think that lens is overpriced @ 2650 anyway. Look around, they can be had cheaper if you really have to have one. Trying to parlay some typos on an auction into cost + 10% on a new 200/2 IS is the height of arrogance, IMNSHO. Time to just man up and let it go. It's just a lens, one of many. Life goes on.
Ed Sawyer wrote:
please. adorama owes no one anything. The only thing that might warrant being done would be re-run the auction, with the correct disclaimers. the only thing that would result is the price would be higher. Frankly, I think that lens is overpriced @ 2650 anyway. Look around, they can be had cheaper if you really have to have one. Trying to parlay some typos on an auction into cost + 10% on a new 200/2 IS is the height of arrogance, IMNSHO. Time to just man up and let it go. It's just a lens, one of many. Life goes on.
kakomu wrote:
True, one of the advantages of FM buy/sell. People are able to take more of a personal approach that makes a buyer more at ease in understanding what they are getting in what is often in costly transaction.
sorry, missed the smilies. (I actually use adblock plus in firefox to block most of the extraneous graphical nonsense in most forums, incl. ads, smileys, avatars, etc.)
Peter, I'll keep an eye out for 200/1.8 user copies.
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