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 Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 6:14 am Post subject: Terrible Seller jod1957 |
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martinsmith99 wrote:
I bought a Hanimex flash off of evilbay recently which was described as in excellent condition and working. When it arrived I found that it would olnly fire 1 in 3 times. I contacted the seller, no response so I raised a dispute, no response. I then gave negative feedback and then he contacted me to say that he'd been away unexpectedly and said he would give a full refund. So I sent it back and he did refund me.
A couple of days later, I just happened to discover that the same flash is listed again as excellent. Click here to see on Ebay
I did agree to withdraw my neg but I'm not going to now as hopefully others will see this as it mentions the item.
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mo
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 6:22 am Post subject: |
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mo wrote:
That is sad.... the fact he listed it again as excellent.You did the right thing as I read the negs on a buyer before considering buying their goods.It would/should be a good warning to prospective buyers.
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 6:34 am Post subject: |
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Scheimpflug wrote:
Sorry to hear about your bad experience... but don't forget to list the seller's ebay name here so that it will come up in searches! 
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 6:55 am Post subject: |
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alex wrote:
I see he says he tested it, but carefully doesn't say what the results were...
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 6:58 am Post subject: |
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Scheimpflug wrote:
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| I see he says he tested it, but carefully doesn't say what the results were... |
He does say "All In Excellent Working Order. I Tested it Off the Camera today"... so I suppose it is possible that there was some sort of incompatibility between the flash and martinsmith99's camera...
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 7:30 am Post subject: |
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alex wrote:
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| I suppose it is possible that there was some sort of incompatibility between the flash and martinsmith99's camera... |
I guess it's possible that the problem was with the camera, though that's easy enough to rule out empirically, and the Hanimex Pro 550 flash isn't dedicated, so it's hard to see what compatibility problems there could be.
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 7:44 am Post subject: |
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Scheimpflug wrote:
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| so it's hard to see what compatibility problems there could be. |
Trigger voltages can vary significantly between flashes from different manufacturers... to the point where some flashes can actually damage the electronics in digital cameras if they are used. The polarity could be reversed as well.
Since the "tolerance" to these conditions varies from camera to camera, it could very well be that this flash was in fact tested and working with one camera, but just happens to not work with another.
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 11:25 am Post subject: |
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alex wrote:
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| Trigger voltages can vary significantly between flashes from different manufacturers... to the point where some flashes can actually damage the electronics in digital cameras if they are used. |
That's a good point to recall. I'm pretty sure that the Pro 550 is a very old flash, perhaps at least twenty years, so trigger voltages may be very high. It would be interesting to know what camera martinsmith99 was using, and whether it has suffered any damage, since these older flashes can have trigger voltages in the hundreds.
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martinsmith99
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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martinsmith99 wrote:
It was nothing to do with the camera. It didn't work in test mode when not attached to a camera. I tried it on 3 of my cameras as well to rule that out.
Seller's name added.
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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alex wrote:
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| It was nothing to do with the camera. It didn't work in test mode when not attached to a camera. |
You can't get more conclusive than that.
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