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From: olympus-digest <owner-olympus-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 29 February 2000 09:34
Subject: Re: [OM] trouble w/ Olympus America
>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:18:32 -0600
>From: "Samuel Morales" <dolphans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] selling to the list and trouble w/ Olympus America
>
>Dear Johnson,
>
>Try Pat MacFarlane of Olympus America, he's pretty helpful. There is also
a
>couple of guys on this site who are always helpful. Some of the Olympus
>Overseas Co.'s have the stuff. Try sending Olympus Tokyo an email, they
are
>pretty helpful.
>
>Sam...
>
>
>- -----Original Message-----
>From: Johnsonpa@xxxxxxx <Johnsonpa@xxxxxxx>
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Sunday, February 27, 2000 8:47 PM
>Subject: [OM] selling to the list and trouble w/ Olympus America
>
>
>>As a digest reader, I feel I am at a disadvantage to For Sale offers on
the
>>list. Everything seems to be sold by the time I get around to reading
>about
>>it. I thought about offering a higher price, but I didn't know if that
was
>>fair. I thought it might be a good idea to offer a minimum price on the
>item
>>and let people offer a highest price they willing to pay only once (no
>>bidding wars). The seller would then take the price offered which exceeds
>>the second highest bid buy a dollar. The seller would then notify the
>person
>>offering the highest bid along with the e-mail address of the second
>highest
>>bid to confirm that the selling price is based on the second highest bid.
>I
>>realize this is a psuedo auction, but it gives everybody an equal chance
at
>>the item and might keep Mr. Early Bird, Tom Scales, from getting
>everything!
>> That's my $.02, but I'm many will disagree.
>>
>>Now my problem with Olympus America. I called to get a tripod collar,
>which
>>several of you indicated I could buy for $19 from them. Well, after being
>>transfered to at leat 10 people, I had to settle for, "Those items have
>been
>>discontinued, and are no longer available." (I was also looking for a rear
>>lens cap to a 80/4 macro or 135/4.5 macro.) After being transfered to
>every
>>department and receiving a less than cordial response from my request, I
>was
>>not about to argue that they still make and sell items (or is everything
>new
>>old stock?) that require these accessories. Can anybody help me out here?
>>Is there a person that I can call specifically who is sympathetic to the
>>plight of Zuikoholics? I was pretty frustrated that Customer Service sent
>me
>>Product Info to Customer Service to Parts to Product Info to Customer
>Service
>>to Tech Support (digital) to Customer Service to Tech Support-35mm
>(couldn't
>>be transfered and had to call back for this one) and so on. Help!!!!
>>
>>--p.j.
Pat MacFarlane is very helpful. He sent me a new front cap for my 1.4x
teleconverter -
when I had failed to be able to get one from Olympus UK or Olympus Canada.
He told me that was a "refurbishing" item. This is why no-one
could find a cataloguet number for it. The same may be the case with the
other specialist lens caps.
His email is: PMACFARL@xxxxxxxxxxx
Peter Loggie
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