its TRUE! Leicas are EASY to Repair YOURSELF!

[CameraQuest]

see http://www.ebay.com/itm/Parts-Lot-Vi...-/370609258957

Stephen

[Livesteamer]

The crazy thing is, I bet that parts camera will sell for the price of a good user! An incomplete M3 recently sold for enough to buy a working one. Joe

[colyn]

That is sickening!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vickko]

Oh, yeah, I buy Leica-in-a-baggies all the time. Great fun to put back together.

Vick

[Brian Legge]

I'd take it for $50. IIIcs occasionally go for $115-150... In need of work but complete. It's already too high IMHO.

Assuming that is the extent of the disassembly - hard to tell if other parts are missing, broken, state of the shutter, etc... that isn't all that bad. Hopefully they stopped before getting to the shutter.

[hteasley]

Nothing wrong with a parts camera.... Youxin would probably like this (if the price weren't pretty high already).

[batterytypehah!]

I would only bid on it for parts. What's visible of the shutter is wrinkled, the top has corrosion, the vulcanite is coming off, and of course chances are it's incomplete.

[farlymac]

Well, they went silly on it at the end. Someone is going to be putting that all back on the bay in individual auctions with the smallest parts going for over $20 each. They'll get their $188.60 back, and then some, but it may take them awhile.

PF

[goodtimes]

Sure it's easy !

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