You are not alone, around two months ago I bought a Pen outfit at ebay from
Australia:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1223311165
You can see the description the seller said the camera and 38/1.8 is near
Mint, the glasses of the 50-90 zoom and the 38/1.8 are in "exceptional
condition". So I had paid a very high bid of that. When the stuff arrived, I
found the 38/1.8 has serious fungus marks on both front and rear elements.
The 50-90 is the same plus many layers of the internal elements looked fog.
For the camera, it has a few scratches at the bottom plate, the name plate
at the flash terminal was missing, the self timer does not work, the mirror
has silver peel off, there was lots of fungus inside the finder, but it does
have a near mint top cover, that's all.
Of course I requested for a refund, the seller agreed, I spent over $30 to
ship them back. After the seller received the stuffs, he requested me to
post a positive feedback to him first before refund! It is absolutely
impossible, if I post him a positive feedback that means the deal is
completed satisfactorily and I don't think he will send the money back. I
had refused, then he told me he will ship back the stuffs to me.
After around 10 days I still not got the delivery and at the mean time I
found his was disappeared from ebay, he was no longer a valid ebay seller! I
send him a few email but they were bounced back. Finally I contacted him by
fax and I got a email reply that he has changed email address and one day
later he was re-registered ebay with new email address.
Okay at last the stuffs are arrived again and he told me refund was still
welcome! Will you pay the shipping game with him again!? No! of course,
finally he agreed on partial refund ($150) for the trade of a positive
feedback and the deal was finished.
I have spent a whole day to clean the camera and lenses, finally I go
something that can only be said as usable. That was the only bad deal I have
in ebay but certainly I will not spend that much again on someone that I
didn't know.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Oben Candemir" <dunya.nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> I agree with the semantics in your post George, and the earlier post by
> Bill that mistakes were possible.
>
> Its just that to have an item described as Mint- and find it teaming with
> fungus. It is a more of a shock when it is from an experienced dealer and
> not a non knowledgeable private seller. Having paid a premium price for it
> makes it even harder to accept. When you have paid $28 in shipping its
> harder still. When you've paid another (difficult to refund) $30 in GST in
> duties before getting a look inside the box you get pretty short tempered.
>
> This was not just a spot of fungus mind you on a deep internal element.
> This is naked eye stuff. You can see it under the front element and on two
> other lens surfaces. No loupes needed. Just look and its there. In
> Australia we would classify it as "Dog's Balls" type.
>
<snap>
>
> I'll keep you posted.
>
> Oben
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