Honestly is hard, especially if you see what I got in the mail!

[navilluspm]

Well, for anyone who cares, I decided to keep the "Hollywood" Distagon. I negotiated the price down to an extra $150. So the grand total I paid $339 incl. shipping for a Distagon 2/28mm in the C/Y mount. I am tempted to turn around and sell this lens on Ebay, but I don't think I will even be able to afford a lens like this again, so I am keeping it and will use it for a while. It is a beautiful lens.

I shot a test roll, but Walmart slaughter the development (I guess this is why they wrote "no charge" negative packaging.)

Does anyone here have experience with a Hollywood Distagon and how it compares with the regular 2.8/28?

 

[Kin Lau]

Good for you! Congrats.

 

[lawnpotter]

For the record, I bought a BGN camera from KEH and I am very happy with it. I will buy from them again

 

[david b]

I bought a BGN grade Hasselblad lens from them about a year ago. It was $1000.

The LN- was $1599 if memory serves me right.

When the BGN arrived, I was blown away. I could not see any signs of use. Not a mark on it. I emailed Dan O at KEH and he told me they sent the correct one.

WOW.

They are getting another order from me in the next or so.

 

[Kim Coxon]

Not of the lens in C/Y mount. However, I believe Pentax were in joint developement with Zeiss on this one and produced a very similar lens in K mount. I do have that and is anything it is better than the 31Ltd which many say is one of the best Pentax lenses. If I were in your situation, it would definatley be a keeper.

Kim

Does anyone here have experience with a Hollywood Distagon and how it compares with the regular 2.8/28?

 

[sepiareverb]

...An hour later she called and said "The payments are going to stop. You can keep what we already sent you. Just don't tell anybody, okay?"

I was happy to agree to that deal.

Honesty is the best policy, but lie for me ok? 😀

This whole thread sums up why the world is so screwed up, because no group of people can agree on anything and too many people are so sure they are right they feel driven to change the rest of us whatever the cost. I'm glad you did what you thought was right navilluspm. In the end that is always the right thing to do.

 

[Spider67]

Enjoy your lens navillus!

Strangely when I was a kid I happily kept the change when a salesperson made a mistake in my favour: Those were the times when electricity came out of a socket and money out of a slot in the wall....until one day I learned that salespeople very often had to pay for their errors and that money must be earned.
That was my lesson. Everybody learned a different one.
But Valdemar has summed up some pretty important points to consider!

 

[marke]

M, I'm glad to have run across this thread. The replies have been interesting and even encouraging to read. I'm also glad that you were able to keep the better lens, as I personally know that you will appreciate it and use it well, especially when I consider where your motivation comes from. 🙂

 

[George S.]

Its not realistic to expect each person in this world to agree with everything everyone else does or says. We are humans, not clones of one another.

I can't count the number of times I had to "teach" the cashier how to give me the correct change. A couple of times it was just no use. At least three times I had to have the cashier call the manager over. Recently I bought asn item for $13.00 and handed over a $20 bill. The cashier kept insisting I get $13.00 change. The more I pushed the money back and asked her to recount what she was giving me, the more annoyed she got with me for questioning her. I had to have the store manager summoned from the back.

It's gotten to the point where I may just start accepting the windfall next time rather than argue with the dumbass. I won't care whether they have to pay it out of their pocket. Maybe if they had to do it once then they'd make the extra effort to actually learn what they need to learn, or, if they're THAT stupid and still can't learn, then they SHOULD lose their job.

 

[myoptic3]

Unfortunately, when you deal w/ KEH you sometimes get surprises. They are truly nice people, but this is another example of them not checking the merchandise well before shipping it. I am running about 50-50 w/ them on my orders. A Leica M5 I bought had to be sent back because the film advance was extremely rough and ratchety, and it was nearly impossible to see the shutter readout in the viewfinder. A Contax G1 had a shutter that misfired every other frame or so, a Nikon 85 1.8 lens had a contact that kept popping sideways and the camera couldn't recognize it, etc. In each case they refunded my money, but the loss in shipping fees adds up if you do this a few times.

I still definately recommend them above stupidbay, but keep in mind they do a tremendous volume of business and your item is just a figure on a computer monitor to them, not a camera or lens that they have actually shot w/ and can vouch for.