thisdudeisgood
The Dude Abides
Good evening everyone
I have what could well be considered a strange question and need some advice if you could.
After much deliberation, internet / forum scouring and guided by my own previous brand experience / personal view preference etc (and many years away from the forum) I have decided to purchase a Premium Leica.
The personal financial situation has much improved in recent years (despite a divorce since my last postings) , so I guess the best place to ask the question since I'm buying a Leica is here on the Leica forum.
The purchase will be either an Ultravid HD + in 10x42 or a Noctivid 10x42. It will be new from a shop...which brings me to my question...that may ramble
We now live in a world gone completely mad so I am unable to travel to compare these two binoculars side by side. Thus I have resorted to sending out various emails to online stores asking whether they provide mail order loan units to compare (to give a general comparison, even though they may be knocked about by previous prospective buyers). The answer is NEIN!
Most say they offer a 14 day return / exchange policy. That's very nice. But I am looking for a mint example and so I asked the question to the retailers...Does this mean if I purchase a 'New' unit then there is a chance / likelihood someone else has had it for a while, didn't like it and returned it; meaning I'm actually buying a unit someone else has used before and therefore not new at all?
The answers I got was invariably...'the likelihood of that is very small'...which to me means yes indeed you will receive a unit that no-one else wanted.
Now I may be being a bit exacting here but £2000 is a lot of money and so my (perhaps strange) question to the forum is this ..Should a new Noctivid / Ultravid come in a box that is factory sealed / proof of not being opened after leaving the factory?
The main reason I ask is I once bought a Zeiss 8x32 conquest HD online from a mainstream UK retailer 'NEW' (I'm in Scotland) and the thing was scrap (Zeiss has inferior build quality anyway but this was obviously a joke, well used, box roughed / accessories dirty etc)...needless to say I scalded the seller and shamed them for daring to sell such items, returned / refunded immediately...but an unpleasant purchasing experience, one of the most unbelievably horrendous ones I've ever experienced.
Do new Noctivids / Ultravids come in a box factory sealed?
And another sneaky question: are there any major differences in the rubber armour between the standard black Noctivid and the Olive one?
Best Regards
Bren
I have what could well be considered a strange question and need some advice if you could.
After much deliberation, internet / forum scouring and guided by my own previous brand experience / personal view preference etc (and many years away from the forum) I have decided to purchase a Premium Leica.
The personal financial situation has much improved in recent years (despite a divorce since my last postings) , so I guess the best place to ask the question since I'm buying a Leica is here on the Leica forum.
The purchase will be either an Ultravid HD + in 10x42 or a Noctivid 10x42. It will be new from a shop...which brings me to my question...that may ramble
We now live in a world gone completely mad so I am unable to travel to compare these two binoculars side by side. Thus I have resorted to sending out various emails to online stores asking whether they provide mail order loan units to compare (to give a general comparison, even though they may be knocked about by previous prospective buyers). The answer is NEIN!
Most say they offer a 14 day return / exchange policy. That's very nice. But I am looking for a mint example and so I asked the question to the retailers...Does this mean if I purchase a 'New' unit then there is a chance / likelihood someone else has had it for a while, didn't like it and returned it; meaning I'm actually buying a unit someone else has used before and therefore not new at all?
The answers I got was invariably...'the likelihood of that is very small'...which to me means yes indeed you will receive a unit that no-one else wanted.
Now I may be being a bit exacting here but £2000 is a lot of money and so my (perhaps strange) question to the forum is this ..Should a new Noctivid / Ultravid come in a box that is factory sealed / proof of not being opened after leaving the factory?
The main reason I ask is I once bought a Zeiss 8x32 conquest HD online from a mainstream UK retailer 'NEW' (I'm in Scotland) and the thing was scrap (Zeiss has inferior build quality anyway but this was obviously a joke, well used, box roughed / accessories dirty etc)...needless to say I scalded the seller and shamed them for daring to sell such items, returned / refunded immediately...but an unpleasant purchasing experience, one of the most unbelievably horrendous ones I've ever experienced.
Do new Noctivids / Ultravids come in a box factory sealed?
And another sneaky question: are there any major differences in the rubber armour between the standard black Noctivid and the Olive one?
Best Regards
Bren
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