dan&erika, I'm interested in the timing re your experience. For at least 11
years, Nikon has had a lifetime no-fault repair/replace policy. Prior to
that, Nikon bins came with a 25-year limited warranty.
Nikon's repair/replace policy worked great for me a few years ago when I
bashed my 8x20 LX L compact bins on a rock during a mountaineering trip,
knocking the bins out of collimation. Immediately after returning to
civilization I contacted Nikon on-line, promptly got an RA and shipped the
damaged bins to Nikon. Within a few days I received an email confirming
receipt of the bins. A few days after that Nikon emailed a message
acknowledging. To my delight, roughly 10 days later I received a brand new
pair of bins. Although Nikon took my credit card info re a $10 handling
fee, I was never charged.
My Zeiss 8x32 FLs are covered by a lifetime warranty and a [now expired]
5-year no-fault policy. The terms of the lifetime warranty expressly
exclude damage resulting from accidents.
The respective warranty policies affects my behavior: When heading out in
rugged terrain, I pack my LX L bins or take my wife's Monarchs : )
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 5:52 AM dan&erika <
danerika at gmail.com> wrote:
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I had the opposite experience with Nikon. When I bought their binoculars,
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they had a lifetime warranty. Years later, despite no longer issuing
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life-time warranties, when the binoculars needed minor repair, Nikon
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honored their warranty by replacing the binoculars with a superior model!
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It did help that I initially bought the binoculars from a camera store
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rather than over the Internet; the store, National Camera Exchange in
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Minneapolis, helped with my brief negotiation with Nikon. Dan Tallman.
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On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 11:35 AM Gary Bletsch <garybletsch at yahoo.com>
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wrote:
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Dear Tweeters,
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Brunton, a company that has existed for over 100 years, sold binoculars
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to me in 2004 with a lifetime warranty. Now the company refuses to honor
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it. Their representative said something like, "Oh, people abused that
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warranty. We changed that warranty. Now we offer a one-year warranty. We
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don't make binoculars any more. We wouldn't be able to fix them." He also
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refused to consider refunding the purchase price.
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When I was shopping for the binoculars back in 2004, I had Swarovski,
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Nikon, Zeiss, and other top brands in my hand. I liked the Bruntons best,
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but a little voice kept telling me, "Don't trust these Brunton people, they
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are newcomers in the binocular market." I should have listened to that
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voice.
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Have other Tweeters ever faced such a situation, when a company sells
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something with a warranty, then reneges on it? How outrageous!
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Yours truly,
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Gary Bletsch
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