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[OM] Re: Sigma 70-210mm f2.8 back from repair.

Subject: [OM] Re: Sigma 70-210mm f2.8 back from repair.
From: Earl Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 21:31:49 -0400
That is amazing customer service.  Makes me want to buy Sigma lenses.

Earl

R.Jackson wrote:
> 
> Some of you may recall that I bought this lens back in October from the 
> dreaded auction site and when it arrived the filter attached to the 
> front of the lens had been smashed and it had scarred the front 
> element. I was tempted to ditch the lens, but instead I sent it to 
> Sigma and then waited for seven months. I'd occasionally get a call 
> from them. Once they called to tell me the lens was too old and they 
> didn't have any parts for it. I was expecting it back then, but a month 
> or so later they called again to say that there might be parts in Japan 
> and that hope was not gone. Then they called to say that the parts were 
> on their way. Then to tell me that the parts in question had turned out 
> to be used parts from disassembled lenses, but if I still wanted them 
> the cost would be minimal. Finally this morning the lens arrived. For 
> all the waiting, they did an amazing job. The new front element seems 
> pristine and focus seems perfect with no infinity issues that I can 
> detect with my eyes. What's more, it seems that they have overhauled 
> the lens because the action is *much* smoother than it was when it 
> arrived here in the first place. It feels like a brand new lens. It may 
> have taken a while, but it seems like they did it right. I'll know more 
> as soon as I burn some film with it, but I was excited and had to 
> babble a little.
> 
> -Rob
> 
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