If sent back to Olympus Japan, they would put them in the crusher. They'd
never use them. The philosophy is, move on, buy new product, don't fix
something old. Clint and I (and others) heartily disagree.
(BTW, I cherry picked what I wanted from that list about a month ago,
anyway, and even after that, there were 278 OM-1 black battery caps left
((or so I was told)).
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Dapoz" <md@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Oly parts
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Walt Wayman wrote:
>
> > I had composed a post saying essentially the same thing, then I
> > saw yours just as I was all set to launch mine off into the
> > electricity. Count me in. This stuff needs to be where it'll do
> > some good for some good people, and they are us.
>
> I've been looking through the list of items that are contained in this
lot,
> and from what I can see, a good percentage of the parts are replacements
for
> things that just don't usually break. When was the last time a diaphragm
> blade needed replacing? How about a lens helicoid? Had your OM-4 front
> casting changed lately? All these parts came from Carsen, the Canadian
Olympus
> distributor. As a distributor they needed to maintain a complete stock of
> replacement parts. I suspect these are the left over parts which they
never
> used. Ideally these parts should go back to Olympus Japan so that when
that
> obscure part is needed once in a blue moon, it will be available. As for
the
> price, I suspect he's looking for around 100f net which would be in the
$10K
> range. That can buy a lot of parts bodies and lenses :-)
> -mark
>
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