I Feel Like A Sucker.....

jeffreyg said:

My suggestion to anyone purchasing previously used equipment is ... if possible by from a reputable dealer or party with a definite return policy and if possible take a roll of film with you, expose it all shutter speeds and apertures and develop the film. While that may not be 100% fool-proof it is a pretty good test. So far that has worked for me except for one time when I traded some equipment I no longer used for a Hasselblad back to one of the major dealers. The back they sent was misrepresented and replaced with one that was not much better. I felt I had been taken and quit buying supplies from them. Five years after that a representative of that company posted on APUG that they were trying to improve their image. I emailed her an account of my dealings with them. I actually had kept the receipt and they took it back and replaced it with a proper one five years later.

Sometimes you get lucky.

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