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Visited a camera store in Portland and watched a clerk tell a customer their SLR was "not worth fixing"
I was in Portland last month and overheard a clerk brush off a customer's stuck film advance as not worth the bench time, which is exactly the kind of job a lot of us would knock out in an hour. It bugs me because that attitude is how good bodies end up in a bin instead of back in someone's hands. How do you all handle it when a shop writes off gear you know is fixable?
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casey5352d ago
The "not worth fixing" line gets thrown around way too fast. A stuck film advance on something like an OM-1 or a K1000 is usually a bad sprocket or a gummed-up clutch, and a shop with the right tools has it apart and back together before lunch. Calling it a write-off just because it's a slow job, not a hard one, feels like the shop deciding their time is worth more than the camera. I get that bench time costs money, but the honest move is quoting a fair price and letting the owner decide, not shutting it down at the counter. Plenty of those bodies are still going 40 years later once someone actually opens them up.
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