Trust is always an issue. I recently sold a Vivitar Series 1 28-90 on ebay
to a guy in Alaska. He got the lens and sent me a message the same day that
it had a slow aperture wide open, and asked what I wanted it to do. I sent
him back a message saying that I had never seen that problem when using it
with an LX body, but if he wasn't happy to pack it up and ship it back to
me and I would refund 100% of his payment. That was a week ago.
Today I got a message from him saying that he would be shipping it back
because his local shop told him it would cost $75 to remove all the oil and
that the lens was useless to anyone in the condition it was it. Now when I
sent it out it had no visible oil on the aperture blades and I had used it
within the week prior to selling it (I got an SMC 35-105 so it became
superfluous). So now it's not just a slow aperture but oil everywhere.
The first thing I'll be doing is checking the serial number of the lens
against the one I sold him. It wouldn't surprise me too much if he or his
"local shop" tried to pull a fast one.
David<
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