On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 03:28:23 EDT, PCACala@xxxxxxx wrote:
>Skip writes:
>
><< The box/case must be to match the lens and make it "MIB" as
>well <ha,ha>. If I'm right, it wouldn't be the first time a buyer has put
>together items and represented them as new. >>
>
>Based on some historical threads here, we seem to agree that putting a box
>together with a lens of a different serial number is fraud, if one then
>claims the lens to be "New or Like New in Box."
>
>Gary Reese
>Las Vegas, NV
I think a buyer is allowed to do what he thinks is good for him to
build a lens-case-box combination which (to his idea!) is new or like
new.
It may be fraud (perhaps) if he tries to SELL the combination and say
that it is new - unless he discloses the fact that the serial numbers
on the lens and on the box are different.
If he changes the number on the box - then it definitely is fraud, of
course.
But I honestly can't think of a collector who would pay $89 for a case
and box, only with the purpose of reselling it together with a
'strange' lens. IMHO the price difference between a LN 200/5 and a NIB
200/5 is less than the $100-125 to make such an transaction a little
attractive.
Frank van Lindert
Utrecht NL.
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