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.
>
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