Passport validity, duration and discount?

[scott kirkpatrick]

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To me it looks like a pretty lousy deal comparing the price you pay versus grey market lenses, or lenses purchased without the Passport warranty, say in Hong Kong.

 

The good deal part is that they really do not ask any questions about how damage occurred and will rebuild a lens to remove a mark on the glass. And list price in the US is the same as before tax elsewhere. The bad part of the deal, as you say, is that list price compared to grey market is a lot more.

 

scott

[robsteve]

I paid for my second camera in advance of 31 December, on 13 December actually, and the passport was registered from this date even though I didn't receive it until about 6 weeks later.

 

I decided not to wake Leica UK from their usual comatose state to discuss because the passport isn't valid any more anyway. That camera was the one which was, how shall I say, "anatomised".

 

Has to be said, Leica UK are pretty short of marketing initiatives - higher prices than euro-land, no lens coding offers, 1 year passport on M8 bodies, no M7 gift vouchers. They do have someone called "Nobby" though. I once had a pony called "Nobby" with a viscious bite to him, long since gone to the great glue factory in the sky, I've no doubt.

 

Mark:

 

If it was under passport, isn't that an all perils coverage? In the USA they would say all you needed is to provide enough parts of the camera to prove it was the one under passport. For example, if your M7 go run over by a truck, shipping them the pieces with at least a a piece with the serial number was enough to make it right.

 

Sadly, Leica USA does not offer passport on the M8. Perhaps they were worried they would get a lot of claims for user error such as scratching the sensor when cleaning or collasing a lens into the shutter.

 

Robert