Axer Lens = Scam / Ripoff . Run Quick! Friend Ripped Off

[jrizal]

I am confused by what she bought. How does a wide angle adapter work at a lens? Does whatever she bought mount directly on the body? Or is the original story just very mangled, and she was planning to buy a lens, and got sold an adapter instead?

A wide angle adapter is attached to a normal lens so that one can focus closer to the subject for macro shots. Clearly this is a scam as even Nikon's consumer grade adaptor sells for $149 thereabouts and some adapters sold by Axer cost even more than a dedicated macro lens. Quoting a a heavy discount is evident of a scam but there may be a legal loophole to describe it as such. Only gullible individuals are suckered into this kind of deals.

 

[jrizal]

However, if the store was unaware, and was ripped off by this company as well, then no fraud would have taken place. However, I find that very hard to believe.

I doubt it.

 

[panblue]

err...

hmmmm...

o..k....

very very weird IMHO

Check THIS web page out!!!!

Lenses

 

[panblue]

I doubt business can get much better than that!

I'd be going to the better business bureau too.

Dun dun DUNNNNNNNNNN!

 

[unpopular]

err...

hmmmm...

o..k....

very very weird IMHO

Check THIS web page out!!!!

Lenses

I think that website is provided to distributors as a "marketing" tool. They're given a suggested retail value ridiculously higher than the actual value - and this website reflects that MSRV. The local distributor buys the adaptors from Axer for maybe $14/each, Axer buys the adapters from Vivitar for $7/each, and Vivitar buys them probably from Samyang or some other Korean or Chinese manufacturer for a $1.25/each.

But I think everyone knows what Axer is doing. They provide this bogus website where you can buy a $1,460 adapter, which the local distributor can use to validate to the customer that they are getting a great deal at $140, which seems to be the bottom that they're willing to negotiate - still, a 1000% profit.

 

[Derrel]

err...

hmmmm...

o..k....

very very weird IMHO

Check THIS web page out!!!!

Lenses

Just type in the two-word search string "Axer lens" in a Google search...now, until THIS thread popped up, the second result was the "Axer lenses" web page, with the ridiculously high prices for rebadged Vivitar screw-in lens converters... but NOW...the scam has been introduced to the search results and this very thread is high in the results.

Axer - Google Search

 

[unpopular]

Does anyone know if the Magenta Coated Lens is still available?

Axer Titanium Magenta Coated Lens Deluxe Super Wide Angle Lens day/Night 58MM | eBay

I hear that Magenta is a great lens coating material. Cuts cosmic radiation that can result in deadly dichroic aeration!

 

[jrizal]

Does anyone know if the Magenta Coated Lens is still available?

Axer Titanium Magenta Coated Lens Deluxe Super Wide Angle Lens day/Night 58MM | eBay

I hear that Magenta is a great lens coating material. Cuts cosmic radiation that can result in deadly dichroic aeration!

Still available. 58mm Titanium Lens Series

 

[Derrel]

Does anyone know if the Magenta Coated Lens is still available?

Axer Titanium Magenta Coated Lens Deluxe Super Wide Angle Lens day/Night 58MM | eBay

I hear that Magenta is a great lens coating material. Cuts cosmic radiation that can result in deadly dichroic aeration!

No, the magenta was phased out in favor of the mauve-coated model, which gave way to the mulberry-coated Mark III, and then the CURRENT model is the pomegranite Axer Mark IV ButtWiper .47x non-Asph. model, available in 46-,49-,52-,55-,58-,62-,67-,72-,77- and 82-mm filter thread sizes.

 

[unpopular]

that's too bad. i always wanted a lens coated with magenta! i hear though that they are working on a new scratch and sniff grape model.

 

[thetrue]

Does anyone know if the Magenta Coated Lens is still available?

Axer Titanium Magenta Coated Lens Deluxe Super Wide Angle Lens day/Night 58MM | eBay

I hear that Magenta is a great lens coating material. Cuts cosmic radiation that can result in deadly dichroic aeration!

No, the magenta was phased out in favor of the mauve-coated model, which gave way to the mulberry-coated Mark III, and then the CURRENT model is the pomegranite Axer Mark IV ButtWiper .47x non-Asph. model, available in 46-,49-,52-,55-,58-,62-,67-,72-,77- and 82-mm filter thread sizes.

They don't have the 74.88948mm model anymore?!?!?!?!?!

 

[panblue]

mulberry-coated Mark III,

I read somewhere about a special Fünfziger Jahre Über Stellar edition. Ultra rare. Mythological status. Only 30,000 were made per month, between 1960 and 1998.

 

[panblue]

i hear though that they are working on a new scratch and sniff grape model.

As long as it's not on the rear element, no problemo.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Wonder how long that "camera store" will remain in business? Send your friend to BHPHOTO.com

 

[Tony S]

HOpefully the store has a return policy........ get a hold of her asap and have her take it back. If they balk at taking the return then she can try the credit card company to stop the payment and then return the item. Buying with a CC gives the buyer a lot of power.