LeoTheStrategist Posted June 19 Share #1 Posted June 19 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) After losing the SL3 cap for the flash sync socket, I asked the Leica store to get me one. A plastic cap worth a few cents sold for €6.50. For a €7000 body, something like this should be free. I am speechless, they are shameless. This is the straw that breaks the camel's back. I'm selling all my Leica equipment and changing brands. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Edited June 19 by LeoTheStrategist Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/422324-sync-socket-cap-%E2%82%AC650/?do=findComment&comment=5820369'>More sharing options...
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pedaes Posted June 19 Share #2 Posted June 19 2 minutes ago, LeoTheStrategist said: I am speechless, To avoid future disappointment I would just check how many, if any, other camera brands supply bits like this for free to help you choose your next camera. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeoTheStrategist Posted June 19 Author Share #3 Posted June 19 @pedaes ...every controversy is useless and stupid, a plastic cap for €6.5 is something that represents pure shame. They are scandalous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topsy Posted June 19 Share #4 Posted June 19 I lost one for my Fujifilm GFX50S, I didn't go to Fuji though I got 2 from eBay for £2.88 inc postage (from China). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeoTheStrategist Posted June 19 Author Share #5 Posted June 19 @Topsy...you did well, they must fail! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ning Ning Posted June 19 Share #6 Posted June 19 (edited) vor 58 Minuten schrieb LeoTheStrategist: I'm selling all my Leica equipment and changing brands. 🙈 You will certainly get a lot of cover for the loss in value. A little fabric tape might have done the trick... But who am I to stand in the way of your happiness. Edited June 19 by Ning Ning Text Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 19 Share #7 Posted June 19 Advertisement (gone after registration) 1 hour ago, LeoTheStrategist said: After losing the SL3 cap for the flash sync socket, I asked the Leica store to get me one. A plastic cap worth a few cents sold for €6.50. For a €7000 body, something like this should be free. I am speechless, they are shameless. This is the straw that breaks the camel's back. I'm selling all my Leica equipment and changing brands. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! That is cheap! Try buying a lens hood ( often well over 100$) or a hot shoe cover (about 50$ IIRC). eBay is your friend, or, in a pinch, Amazon. And getting all steamed up over the price of a cheeseburger and contemplating a multi thousand dollar downgrade seems rather over the top to me. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simone_DF Posted June 19 Share #8 Posted June 19 That’s what happens when you buy into a luxury and lifestyle brand. Find a 3rd party option or have it 3d printed if you want to save on these small things 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeoTheStrategist Posted June 19 Author Share #9 Posted June 19 @jaapv ...what you wrote has nothing to do with it. Here we are talking about a small chinese plastic cap for €6.5! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedaes Posted June 19 Share #10 Posted June 19 1 hour ago, LeoTheStrategist said: @jaapv ...what you wrote has nothing to do with it. Here we are talking about a small chinese plastic cap for €6.5! No, you are talking about a Leica spare part. Beautifully boxed What @jaapv said has everything to do with it. He wa s putting things in perspective for you 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LD_50 Posted June 19 Share #11 Posted June 19 Thread of the year. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardC Posted June 19 Share #12 Posted June 19 I just checked online. A genuine Nikon sync cap is twice as much ($13.95), so that's not an option. Nikon is apparently twice as luxurious as Leica... Established photo retailers usually have a drawer of "bits and bobs" for small parts like this. Obviously, you might end-up with an Olympus cap on your Leica (!), but the good news is that they'll rarely charge you, as long as you are a regular customer. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Richardson Posted June 19 Share #13 Posted June 19 I guess I have lived in Iceland too long. I just tried to order a spare foam ear tip for my Sony noise cancelling ear buds from the Sony importer, and they told me they were 30 euros per ear bud. So sixty euros for the foam ear tips. They agreed it was crazy, but told me that is what the price was listed as. I will look to the internet instead. It is pretty rare that anything is free here, even when it is their fault. In this case, I agree that maybe it would be nice to get this for free, but let's be real, this is the price of one or two cups of coffee these days (on in Scandinavia, probably two in Italy). The cap is not really the cost of the item here, it is getting it from China and then to Leica and then to the store, the cost of the little plastic bag, the cost of the paper of invoice, and then the cost of the time in dealing with it. In reality, this probably costs a lot more than 6.50 in this context. It is also a cap that you lost, not a warranty item etc. I agree, however, that it is in Leica's interest to provide these items out of graciousness, but I think that if you expect anything out of a corporation in 2025, you are setting yourself up for a life full of disappointments. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 19 Share #14 Posted June 19 6 hours ago, LeoTheStrategist said: @jaapv ...what you wrote has nothing to do with it. Here we are talking about a small chinese plastic cap for €6.5! Yes? And? You probably used more petrol driving to the shop. Do you know what petrol costs leaving the refinery? Less than a quarter of the price at the pump. You pay for the logistics, not for the plastic. So fly to China yourself. I’m sure that the factory will sell it to you for 25 cents. And you can claim it on insurance. 😅 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Albertson Posted June 19 Share #15 Posted June 19 I've lost so many of the damn things over the years that I simply slap a piece of gaffer tape over the terminal (which I almost never use anyway) and forget about it. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pelu2010 Posted June 19 Share #16 Posted June 19 Hey, I do it this way. Everything I can loose I put in a box. Then I replace it with cheap items of a quality that is ok for me. That way I don't get inner cinema. I don't use any of the Leica lens caps and I did not use any of my Olympus caps and non of my canon caps. I usually replaced them with caps without logo. cheers ps. just don't get to angry about it. change the perspective and go shooting some nice images that you can show us. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted June 19 Share #17 Posted June 19 The OP must be winding us up surely? There's no compulsion to buy a new sync cap if you don't want to. You willingly paid for a new Leica one so I suspect you were quite happy with the price. I have some quite old cameras that never had sync caps fitted and guess what, they still work. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjdrijfhout Posted June 20 Share #18 Posted June 20 Wow, the service this dealer went through to get you an original Leica Flash Sync Port Cap Replacement. Clearly the kind of service that can only be expected from a high end brand. I wonder if the item even has an official list price. One would think that they just came out with a price high enough to not have you come in every week for free/lost caps and low enough to not turn you off too much. Clearly they did not succeed in the latter, but still I would say this is high end service which is unlikely to be seen with any other brand. btw, good to see people are using the sync port, as I thought we’d left those behind years ago and design-wise they’re an eye-sore. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filip Baraka Posted June 21 Share #19 Posted June 21 selling everything because of price of a cap is not very strategic of you. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jankap Posted June 21 Share #20 Posted June 21 On 6/19/2025 at 1:55 PM, LeoTheStrategist said: @jaapv ...what you wrote has nothing to do with it. Here we are talking about a small chinese plastic cap for €6.5! Doesn't carry a red dot? My proposal, buy one on Ebay and use it AND put the Leica one into your safe. Sometime in the future, you will sell the camera, then you need the red dot cap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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