The VAT things keeps me to EU too, and I used to send my OMs to
Intervison in Malmö, Sweden (www.intervison.se). The used to be Oly-
techs but now Oly has moved all repairs to Portugal. I don't know if
they can help at all these days. the last thing they served for me
was my 50/1.2 and that was in 2004.
/ Johan
14 nov 2006 kl. 09.32 skrev priit@xxxxxxxxx:
>
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Jeff Keller wrote:
>
>> For camera service, I wouldn't shop around. There is a Olympus
>> specialist in California who generally does very good work but seems
>> to disappear from time to time. If you are very very patient,
>> everything will probably work out fine. I pretty much always use John
>> at www.zuiko.com or Clint at www.olyfix.com now.
>
> I've been wondering, does everyone ship their cameras to John or
> Clint? I
> know there are a lot of listmembers from Europe who have several of OM
> bodies, shipping it out and back into EU seems expensive.
>
> I absolutely have faith that if I sent my gear to John he'd do a
> terrific
> job, the problem is that I dislike the idea that I have to pay
> taxes to
> the government for it. Paying the VAT several times for one camera
> gets
> kind of old.
>
> Anyway, back to the point. Are there any good alternatives inside
> the EU?
> I have two OM bodies that are perfectly usable as they are now but
> needing
> minor repair/CLA, and I don't trust the local repairmen enough :)
> Would be
> very grateful for any advice.
>
> priit.
>
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