Dave,
You are now asking for me to inject my political and fiscal
perspective into this which I will gladly do.
I will cut to the chase. This OP is hypocrisy at its best. While I
can't fully speak on behalf of the OP, I have read just too many
posts blasting the inappropriateness of Canon for being
duplicitous/money hungry, etc. Because there are store policies
that say you can return defective equipment in a certain period of
time, do you really think it appropriate to go, take the camera for a
spin and return it for no good reason so that some poor schnook who
doesn't know better can then buy a repacked camera? Then we see the
posts from the buyer who gets a repack spewing venom at the reseller
and rightfully so-so there is plenty of duplicity and hypocrisy to be
shared by all. The OP can rationalize it all he/she wants but it is
not right.
I am not saying that buying a camera should be gambling, I am not
saying that you don't have the right to return a malfunctioning piece
of equipment. I think those waiting till the dust settles before
they purchase are prudent and doing the right thing. Those of us who
own it and enjoy it, great and quite frankly, I rather share those
experiences. But I have no patience for the poor me innocent posts
or the post saying hey I got an MKIII and it works great but I am
returning it just in case-individuals too need to accept some
responsibility for their actions/purchases and this OP is totally
inappropriate IMO. Are they breaking any law or rule-of course
not-are they bending them-of course they are.
While I debate those who buy it knowingly even after having read all
the issues/problems/bad reviews from RG, I still understand their
point (although don't necessarily agree with why they purchased it in
the first place), when they return it for finding what they believe
is a problem (however in most cases words and not examples). This
OP, bought the thing knowing all the issues, states the thing works
properly (for G-ds sake admits to shooting over 400 shots of
hummingbirds with the "vast majority in focus") and still wants to
return it! Come on. This is not right, is hypocritical and feeding
into unfounded hysteria. But it is OK, because we are just little
people who shouldn't be held accountable-only the big money hungry
evil corporations should.
Enough said.
