LTM to M adapters: Marumi

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pshinkaw

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I just received a pair of Marumi M adapters purchased from Merkle Camera in Toronto. Took about a week and a half to get to Texas from Toronto, not bad.

http://www.merklecamera.com/

They were priced and sold to me in Canadian dollars, so I was pleasantly surpised when I saw my receipt. They were only $40 ea.

-Paul
 
They are about the cheapest quality adapters around. I have 2 and they work wonderfully. Both were from Merkle, great folks to deal with. They trade on evilbay as well.
 
Hmmm, they have gone up if that price does not include shipping. Still a good price but before RFF members started recommending sourcing from Merkle, they were $30 each. Market forces at work of course but 30% is a heck of an increase.

 
They quoted shipping of $9 to the US, but because of a mix-up in the ordering process, they courteously waived the shipping for me altogether.

When I acquired my M2 last month, it had only a 10 day money back warranty. I was in quite a hurry to get a lens on it to test it out, but all I had were LTM's. I ended up asking EP Levine in Boston to FedEx a used Leitz one to me. Cost over a $100.

I elected to go with Marumi's for the rest of the adapters I needed because of stories I read on this forum about the variabilty in quality of Camera Quest adapters. These Marumi's are very well made.

-Paul
 
Indeed. Those Marumis were $30 (ex shipping) not too long ago. I have 6 or so, and all work a charm. But if they hiked the price by 30% you might just as well buy elsewhere.
 
RML:

When a retailer raises prices by 30% what do you end up paying after the VAT is added? Where I live I pay an extra 8.25% if it is subjected to a local sales tax (over the counter sale or mail order within my state or from a state with a sales tax compact with my home state).

-Paul
 
pshinkaw said:
RML:

When a retailer raises prices by 30% what do you end up paying after the VAT is added? Where I live I pay an extra 8.25% if it is subjected to a local sales tax (over the counter sale or mail order within my state or from a state with a sales tax compact with my home state).

-Paul
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Paul, I live in Holland and VAT is 19% on photographic items. So, for me a price hike of 30% is just that. $30 becomes $39, and than 19% VAT on top of that. makes $46,41 instead of the $35,70 the adapter would cost before. That's for me an $11 price hike on a $30 item. That is getting a bit rich for me, especially when second hand Leitz adapters are often cheaper on eBay.
 
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