I'm not surprised. After threatening to relist the camera on eBay and to name him him with reference to his disregard for customers, I did eventually get a reply from sebsandiego. Sebsandiego simply insisted he was a "reputable dealer" but made no offer of any kind of recompence for a clearly misrepresented item. As a dealer, even if sebsandiego did not know the shutter was close to failure, it's incumbent on him to make some amends. Very shabby.
I also think it somewhat outrageous that almost without exception, sebsandiego splits original camera bodies from their matching lenses and even their ever ready cases in order to auction them separately to maximise profit. He is destroying vintage cameras. If we own collectable cameras with matching lenses maybe he is doing us a favour by making our cameras even more valuable....but it's not really the point, is it ? Added to that, I have only just realised why sebsandiego's cameras look so fantastic in the eBay photos. He jacks up the contrast and the brightness in Photoshop to iron out detail and any imperfection. The modern equivalent of a thorough "airbrushing." I would like everyone reading the AP forum to boycott sebsandiego to show him that real camera enthusiasts have no truck with his methods. If enough of us do it, he won't get away with it.
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