I agree with your assessment. If he were up front he would have called you
on the phone and discussed it with you. Why did he go to his local shop?
This should definitely raise all kinds of questions.
mkr
At 05:02 PM 4/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
>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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