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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lucznik" data-source="post: 618892" data-attributes="member: 25237">I am suspicious of the story that was given in the review.  In my experience, when people go out of there way to insist just how perfect they have been in their handling of any object, person, etc., it usually is a big red flag that they are being "less than 100% honest."With a quick "reading between the lines," I come up with the following - which seems more likely to me:Guy wants a Leica binocular but, doesn't want to spend the $1000+ it will take to buy one from an authorized dealer.He finds a gray market dealer who will sell him one for an eye-poppingly low price and jumps on the deal.He doesn't send in the warranty card because he knows he can't get it serviced in the US as he bought from the gray market.  He also doesn't want there to be any chance of alerting Leica to the presence of this particular dealer because that might somehow cause his source for great optics at cheap prices to dry up.He uses the binocular hard, dropping it, scraping it across rocks, cleaning the lenses with rough tissue paper, etc.  When something does go wrong, he sends it in to be serviced but, the serial number alerts Leica that this is a product that was not sold from an authorized dealer and therefore has no warranty coverage (a issue about which most optics companies are very upfront with the public on websites, in company literature, etc. and one reason why they encourage people to buy from authorized dealers.) Guy gets mad because he thinks Leica should take it in the a$$ for him anyway so, he posts a dishonest and inflammatory review in the most public place he can find, knowing that they won't be able to answer his complaint.</blockquote>

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