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Fixed, but original user no longer wants it

kl122002

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Anyone been into this situation before?

A screaming boy send me a disassembled Flektogon 35/2.4 and said he failed to reassemble it.

I am glad that all parts are there and I managed to reassemble it and adjusted it back to order. The main part he has dissembled is the aperture mech.

It took me about 3 days since I am really in serious project and this repairing is mostly done during night's free time. I contacted him to get it back but he declined, because:

- He has bought another working lens from ebay.
-He doesn't know how much to pay me ( and I never said anything about charging him!?)
- He wishes a lens that have never be serviced.
 
It's amazing how many people will walk away from a failed project, and just eat the loss, preferring something they can use right away, now.
 
As long as he doesn't come back claiming that he did you a favor by giving a lens, and now you owe him!
 
Dan Daniel said:
Live and learn. You now own the lens.

Discuss scope of work and cost before you do work.
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4season said:
As long as he doesn't come back claiming that he did you a favor by giving a lens, and now you owe him!
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I don't think I owned this lens. And just like now it is something I have to put at the corner and wait for him of he changed his mind someday!?
 
kl122002 said:
I don't think I owned this lens. And just like now it is something I have to put at the corner and wait for him of he changed his mind someday!?
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Not yet. Send him a list of choices, which include giving the lens to you, and ask him to either pick one thing on the list or suggest an alternative.
Don't hesitate to include "donate the lens" on the list.
 
MattKing said:
Not yet. Send him a list of choices, which include giving the lens to you, and ask him to either pick one thing on the list or suggest an alternative.
Don't hesitate to include "donate the lens" on the list.
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Sure, will do.
I just don't understand what's in today's kids mind. Too much money or the lens is too cheap?
 
Establish in writing your policy of keeping unredeemed items after a 90 days to a 6 months period of non payment, for work performed.

Get both a deposit, just to look at it and return postage.

Keeping things simple and on the up and up, with no confusion, makes for a simple transaction.

IMO.
 
I don't think I would accept any projects from this person in the future...
 
This doesn’t sound like good business practices. And if it was a favor to a friend, it doesn’t sound like a friendship. Send it back and accept the loss. Your conscience will be clear and his might ache a bit. You win!
 
Email him an invoice to be paid or to reject it with permission to resell the lens to recoup your cost.
 
kl122002 said:
Sure, will do.
I just don't understand what's in today's kids mind. Too much money or the lens is too cheap?
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Short attention span and accustomed to many options at the click of buttons. Thanks to gadgetry.
 
As long as you have in writing that he doesn't want it back...
 
What body is it for. It's a great lens, I have one with issues. I'd love to talk about buying it but I'm in the US and shipping is probably equal to what the lens is worth -
 
beemermark said:
What body is it for. It's a great lens, I have one with issues. I'd love to talk about buying it but I'm in the US and shipping is probably equal to what the lens is worth -
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Until very recently I just got introduced into Reddit. Kids are there. I don't want to stereotype someone , but just somehow the screaming boy is much like a type of person in there.

Doing an unfamiliar mechanic is painful for sure , especially when the youtubes rarely did it right. Those long-run productions have variation in design and the videos never mentioned about it . Some stupid people follows and failed. This Flektogon is one of the kind.

I am not running a repair shop and there is no clear statements how to to work these things out . Just tonight I contacted screaming boy formally, which just after less than 200 hours since the lens on my table the boy seems have already forgotten this lens and me .
I asked him to take it back and put it for sale and he is "too busy with new stuff , no time" , "Take it away from me , " and "don't talk to me about this lens anymore".

Now my cousin is lucky, now he has a free lens.

Perhaps later I share some pics of fixing the aperture of this flektogon ? Anyone interested?
 
kl122002 said:
I asked him to take it back and put it for sale and he is "too busy with new stuff , no time" , "Take it away from me , " and "don't talk to me about this lens anymore".
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That sounds like regret to me, as well as a bit of embarrassment.
 
kl122002 said:
Perhaps later I share some pics of fixing the aperture of this flektogon ? Anyone interested?
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I would be extremely interested. I love this lens (a wide angle macro focusing to 6 inches) but it will no longer stop down. The aperture pin doesn't seem to be connected to the aperture mechanism.
 
beemermark said:
I would be extremely interested. I love this lens (a wide angle macro focusing to 6 inches) but it will no longer stop down. The aperture pin doesn't seem to be connected to the aperture mechanism.
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Very unlike the older zebra version , this modern with rubber focusing ring Flektogon use some plastic at the aperture mechanics.
I have seen many broken these plastics, or mistakenly used wrong lubrication that glued up this part.
 
The repairing note of this lens is here :

Repairing notes for CZJ late Flektogon 35/2.4

Previously I have received a "no-longer needed" CZJ Flektogon 35/2.4 from a boy. Late CZJ lenses, aka with modern rubber focusing ring made during 1970s, is more deliciated when compare to former zebra or leather versions. Please note that *Plastics* are used inside this series especially the...
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