Repair of Olympus C-700

That'd be my choice too. Do you know of anything <$150 with a 10x optical
zoom like the C700? And in my case, anything over 2 megapixel is not
necessary.

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> This is the several year old 2 megapixel Olympus C700? You could buy
> one for about $100 today at amazon.com or other places.
>
> "John Curtiss" <john.curtissREMOVE.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >This is one great camera but now having power-up problems. By the way
it's
> >acting up, I suspect it is just a connector. I thought about tearing it
> >apart myself, but don't want to risk the damage. Problem is Olympus
charges
> >a flat fee now - somewhere around $150 for this camera. Anyone know a
> >non-Olympus repair shop in S. Calif who might take a stab at this for
less
> >cost?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >John
> >
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Can't think of one, can you! =O)

"John Curtiss" <john.curtissREMOVE.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> That'd be my choice too. Do you know of anything <$150 with a 10x optical
> zoom like the C700? And in my case, anything over 2 megapixel is not
> necessary.
>
> <catfish.DeleteThis@invalid.address.com> wrote in message
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> > This is the several year old 2 megapixel Olympus C700? You could buy
> > one for about $100 today at amazon.com or other places.
> >
> > "John Curtiss" <john.curtissREMOVE.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >This is one great camera but now having power-up problems. By the way
> it's
> > >acting up, I suspect it is just a connector. I thought about tearing
it
> > >apart myself, but don't want to risk the damage. Problem is Olympus
> charges
> > >a flat fee now - somewhere around $150 for this camera. Anyone know a
> > >non-Olympus repair shop in S. Calif who might take a stab at this for
> less
> > >cost?
> > >
> > >Thanks.
> > >
> > >John
> > >
>
>
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My solution to this is simply no more Olympus cameras. Customer unfriendly
companies no longer have my trade.
Call Customer Relations and complain.
I still have One Sp, one OM-2 and one OM-10--was very unhappy to find out
that they dropped service for them

GM Chevrolet Division recently made a mistake that will cost them my
business and all of my relatives and decendents.
The factory rep refused to authorize a dealer repair on visibly bad
components until they fell off, Obviously hoping that this would happen out
of warrenty.
It will cost GM far, far more than the piddly cost of repair or even vehicle
replacement. My family had bought GM cars for 97 years. No More.

..

"thought it would be cheap for them to flash it maybe free because I
did everything according to their instructions and it died.
The problem was it was 1 month out of warranty. Nope $150 bucks"


"xxxxxxxxxxx" <John.DeleteThis@Smith.hawaii.rr.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:47:42 GMT, "John Curtiss"
> <john.curtissREMOVE.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >Can't think of one, can you! =O)
>
> I was in the same situation a year or so ago. I had a 750 Oly, heard
> about some problems with it that would be fixed with flashing the
> firmware a big mistake. I flashed it and all seemed to go well except
> for the fact it stopped working after the flash. Totally dead.
>
> I thought it would be cheap for them to flash it maybe free because I
> did everything according to their instructions and it died. The
> problem was it was 1 month out of warranty. Nope $150 bucks.
>
> I immediately decided to forget that after calling around. You can
> find a few places here and there that had similar prices but some
> didnt work on certain things and others --- the price wasnt much
> different. Oly has auctions on ebay which sells refurbs but they keep
> the best ones so they tend to look brand new and come with all new
> accessories. In general the ones Ive seen --- they were
> indistinquishable from new. The only difference is they have much
> shorted warranties. You might want to try that route.
>
> Ive also bought two refurbs from 3rd party firms and despite the "Like
> New" claims they werent. I would never do that again. The oly refurbs
> were far superior to the other refurbs. The problem with ebay is you
> often have to wait forever for a deal cause many bidders push the
> price up way too high.
>
> Yourother option is look for clearance sales and craiglist/ebay etc
> used sales though thats far riskier. I got the 745 Oly for 199 which
> was a far better deal than getting my old 750 fixed for only 50 bucks
> more.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Thanks, John! I really appreciate your taking the time to give so much good
info. This is the 2nd Olympus I have had and been relatively happy with
both. Fortunately for me, the Olympus repair facility is driving distance. I
may swing by sometime when the lunch truck is there and talk to the techs
who wander out for a burrito.

"xxxxxxxxxxx" <John DeleteThis @Smith.hawaii.rr.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:11:35 GMT, xxxxxxxxxxx
> <John DeleteThis @Smith.hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >Yourother option is look for clearance sales and craiglist/ebay etc
> >used sales though thats far riskier. I got the 745 Oly for 199 which
> >was a far better deal than getting my old 750 fixed for only 50 bucks
> >more.
>
> Just checked and I see a fair amount of 765s and other 10xes on ebay.
> Your chances are probably pretty good in getting it in the 120-160
> range since they are fairly old now with several newer models out by
> Oly.
>
> The newer cams are probably much better. I wanted to keep the 750
> cause it used regular NIMH batteries vs the lith ions but after using
> the 765s --- I vastly preferred the 765 though it didnt have a
> hotshoe. The lith ion was so dinky and only one battery that it made
> the whole camera far lighter and allowed them to design it in a
> smaller package. I hated carrying around 2 sets of 4 nimh batteries
> and swapping 4 out at a time when taking pics. The lith ion seemed to
> last a real long time. You can easily get a 4-5 meg now.
>
> For new ones its hard to get a 10x for less than 250. However once
> again the newer ones are much better. I recently switched to the Canon
> s2 since they were clearing them out and its far better than 765
> though that wasnt a bad cam at all. For the price - less than 200 the
> Oly still arent bad if you can find a good one. However the Canon and
> other top big zooms now have so many features its amazing and the big
> one --- image stabilization. In bright light --- I live in a sunny
> region I rarely had problems with the 765 even with the big zoom but
> indoors it got tricky.
>
>
>
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Anyone know a non-Olympus repair shop for this? Thanks.

"John Curtiss" <john.curtissREMOVE DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> This is one great camera but now having power-up problems. By the way it's
> acting up, I suspect it is just a connector. I thought about tearing it
> apart myself, but don't want to risk the damage. Problem is Olympus
charges
> a flat fee now - somewhere around $150 for this camera. Anyone know a
> non-Olympus repair shop in S. Calif who might take a stab at this for less
> cost?
>
> Thanks.
>
> John
>
>
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This is one great camera but now having power-up problems. By the way it's
acting up, I suspect it is just a connector. I thought about tearing it
apart myself, but don't want to risk the damage. Problem is Olympus charges
a flat fee now - somewhere around $150 for this camera. Anyone know a
non-Olympus repair shop in S. Calif who might take a stab at this for less
cost?

Thanks.

John
 >> Stay informed about: Repair of Olympus C-700 

This is one great camera but now having power-up problems. By the way it's
acting up, I suspect it is just a connector. I thought about tearing it
apart myself, but don't want to risk the damage. Problem is Olympus charges
a flat fee now - somewhere around $150 for this camera. Anyone know a
non-Olympus repair shop in S. Calif who might take a stab at this for less
cost?

Thanks.

John
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