Freestyle is selling refurbished 35mm SLRs

BrianShaw

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The skeptics probably aren’t potential customers anyway…
 
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I've been relying on Freestyle since I first set foot in the store back in 1972 when I was a HS student from the San Fernando Valley of CA, taking Photo 101 and Journalism class where I was a photographer and cartoonist.
My parents bought me a brand new Minolta SRT-101 and later a Mamiya C33 to further my photographic endeavors.
That Minolta suffered, within 8-months, stripped plastic advance gears twice. Finally, someone came up with metal gearing and a serious design flaw was corrected.
A refurbished camera will have all issues corrected, including new foam seals and in the case of a Canon AE-series body the shutter magnet cleaned and the body properly lubed and tested.
I trust Freestyle to sell something they will stand behind.
Course, they're only as good as who's supplying the "refurbished" cameras...
 

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Refurbished has always meant that the item was returned for a cause, fully tested for every function instead of sampling some of the tests after repairing the defects and then fully guaranteed as new and sold at below the new price. I learned a lot about refurnished products when I worked at Kodak.
 

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Ok, but these are 40+ year old cameras so they were not returned to Nikon or Pentax for cause. I guess someone could email Freestyle for clarification.
 
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