Lockdown 3 Project OM10

Obviously the easy part of taking photos is to point the camera, maybe focus if the camera doesn't do it for you, and press the button. So far so good.

The OM10 Truprint film went off in the post on January to Stuart Cameras in East London. It was packed into a small padded bag with the printed purchase document from eBay. I weighed it to make sure it was under the 100g limit for first class UK postage. it was 48g inc stamp. The eBay receipt from the purchase as well as PayPal payment has my name and address on it.

So where is it?  Who knows?

I ordered the results to come back on CD rather than prints? Why? The film has been in the camera part exposed for the best part of 15 years.  I have no idea what is on it at all and so I though prints would be useless especially if the film was no good after all this time in the camera and in the wardrobe.

I messaged them through the eBay messaging service to ask if the film had arrived. I did this on the 13th January just to say that it had been posted as the eBay transaction was bought on the 9th January.

No reply.

I left it a week and messaged them again through the eBay message system on the 19th and again on the 21st. No reply. By now I was getting pissed off with the lack of professionalism from this outfit.  One that seems to have 401 positive reviews, although what might be a flag of something rotten, is that they have had none since December.  Maybe that should have sounded alarm bells.

Anyway, rather than give them bad feedback, I emailed them.  Doesn't take a genius to guess what the response was?

So I reluctantly started a claim for at least my money back. It looks as though the film has gone and we will never know if there was anything on it worth keeping.  A lesson learned.

Next time I'll stick with Max Spielman and avoid being burned again.