Sync socket cap €6.50!

[LeoTheStrategist]

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@jankap Impressed...a true genius...but how did I not think of this before

[wizard]

Am 19.6.2025 um 12:06 schrieb LeoTheStrategist:

I asked the Leica store to get me one. A plastic cap worth a few cents sold for €6.50.

Ha, Leica is not alone here. I own a Moto Guzzi motorcycle, roughly 10 years old by now, and needed a rubber nipple which somehow got lost. This rubber nipple is a very simple item, which is used on the bike to isolate a plastic stud from the motorcycle frame. I ordered a replacement rubber nipple at my Guzzi dealer (in Germany), and expected to be charged in the order of 2 or 3 Euros (the item itself is worth some cents). Unfortunately, I was totally wrong. The dealer charged me 11,50 €, and even showed the official Moto Guzzi spare part list to me to prove he did not rip me off. Should I now sell my Moto Guzzi? 🙂

[pedaes]

41 minutes ago, wizard said:

Should I now sell my Moto Guzzi? 🙂

NO! You should have a nice warm glow that your Guzzi only has original parts!

I was daft enough to spend £45 on a '100 Years' brass/silver socket cap.  It was beautifully packaged in a little cloth bag in a custom box with a 100 year sleeve. 

 

[Eclectic Man]

Stanley Gibbons, the postage stamp dealer, lists a price for every stamp, but state that for the ones with the highest number printed, this is merely a handling charge, not an indication of value.

I dare say that Leica (and Nikon) handling charges are not zero, and probably more than the production costs of a small piece of plastic.

C'est la vie!

[masjah]

Twas ever thus. I regularly lost the PC socket caps on my old R8/R9s, and was charged a very similar amount years ago, so, allowing for inflation, you are in fact getting a bargain. I discovered that my caps were getting flipped off when I removed the camera from its storage bag; simply changing its position in the bag solved the problem immediately, leaving me half a dozen caps that I'd bought in a bulk buy expecting further losses. I passed them on free to fellow sufferers, in return for a modest donation (£1 or so) on their part to the charity of their own choice. I simply regarded it as a Leica owners tax.

[thua]

Lost my cap (SL3) last year. Sent an email to Leica customer Service and even offered to pay. One week later they sent me 2 for free...

[Pelu2010]

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On 6/20/2025 at 11:01 AM, wjdrijfhout said:

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.

They are left behind, because if you use a Leica Visoflex 2 , your port gets obsolete. 
So I would say with all Noctilux and Summilux Lenses and with a viewfinder attached you don’t need any cap no longer.