It may have been a "NOS" (New Old Stock) lens.
This is not bait and switch B&S is when you ask for an item at $X
and the salesperson tries to sell you a similar item at $X+XXX.
They bait you with a low price then try to switch you to a high priced
item.
It's too bad this was just discovered. B&H might have exchanged the
lens when it was first received.....
No, I don't have any connection with B&H except they get my $$$$
every now and then.....
Bob
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PCACala@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Periodically there is discussion about the merits and demerits of various mail
> order businesses, esp. those in New York City. While B&H gets high praise, I
> thought it was worth relating something I just learned of today.
>
> About two years ago I talked a neighbor into ordering a OM-4T from B&H. His
> son had his ideas regarding a suitable lens, which turned out to be the 50mm
> f/1.4 That is what was ordered.
>
> In getting together lenses for the next round of lens testing, I decided to
> ask him if I could borrow his f/1.4 I always assumed that it was a multi-
> coated one, since he bought it so recently. Low and behold, it turns out to
> be a single coated with a silver rim. Hum, why would B&H be selling one of
> those in 1997? If any store would have sold fresh stock (i.e., the
> multicoated one), it would have been our old trusty B&H, right? Well, . . .
>
> My data shows the 1.4 to have been announced as multi-coated February, 1980.
> It was dropped from the OM line on my August 1990 Olympus Photographics
> Products Suggested List Price sheet. Thus, either B&H sold him a 17 year old
> new lens or it was a Like New they got in and pawned off on him. At any rate,
> they sold as new a lens out of production for 7 years.
>
> If he hadn't put a black rimmed UV filter on that lens, I probably would have
> spotted the bait and switch. Like the time another shop tried to charge me
> for the Olympus lens case. Or another the Olympus focusing screen. Buyer
> beware.
>
> Gary Reese
> Las Vegas, NV
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