I sold and shipped a spotting scope to someone from this site and they claim that is is unusable. They've requested a full refund on PayPal. This is the message that I got from them.
"Good afternoon,
I've not been able to get anything and I've even looked through the objective to see a tiny view.... the scope was diagonal in the box with the box being the insulation in the cors.
If there's no tricks or ? to get it to work then I'd guess that the mirrors, prisms or whatever vortex designed for the angled portion. I've had it on an extremely HD tripod in my front yard and a lighter one indoors looking out.
I've been shooting professionally since the early eighties which amounts to zilch, save my knowledge of how to take care of optics for 35mm, multi medium format as well as 8x10". Together with film and video cameras as well as surveying equipment. I've not done a thing to it and there's no noticable loose parts inside.
If there's no special thing to obtain view(s), it was damaged in shipping but as mentioned, treated like fine china by me. I'm on a very tight SSDI monthly fixed income which doesn't even include the fact that my right eye has gone to 20-30% (I'm having to switch eyes for shooting which is why I'm having to purchase the scope. Please advise."
A few things that are red flags to me is the nonsense about a history of taking care of optics and claiming that a loss of vision in one eye is what caused them to buy a new spotting scope.
Does this seem like a scam to anyone else?
"Good afternoon,
I've not been able to get anything and I've even looked through the objective to see a tiny view.... the scope was diagonal in the box with the box being the insulation in the cors.
If there's no tricks or ? to get it to work then I'd guess that the mirrors, prisms or whatever vortex designed for the angled portion. I've had it on an extremely HD tripod in my front yard and a lighter one indoors looking out.
I've been shooting professionally since the early eighties which amounts to zilch, save my knowledge of how to take care of optics for 35mm, multi medium format as well as 8x10". Together with film and video cameras as well as surveying equipment. I've not done a thing to it and there's no noticable loose parts inside.
If there's no special thing to obtain view(s), it was damaged in shipping but as mentioned, treated like fine china by me. I'm on a very tight SSDI monthly fixed income which doesn't even include the fact that my right eye has gone to 20-30% (I'm having to switch eyes for shooting which is why I'm having to purchase the scope. Please advise."
A few things that are red flags to me is the nonsense about a history of taking care of optics and claiming that a loss of vision in one eye is what caused them to buy a new spotting scope.
Does this seem like a scam to anyone else?
