Mack's guarantee & D70 battery charger

[martin_altmann]

Related to the theft that I suffered last Friday, some questions:

 

The stolen D70 has a Mack's 5 year guarantee, which has slightly more

than one year left. According to the card that you recieve upon buying

such a guarantee it is transferable for a US$15 fee. Since I hopefully

will be able to buy a new camera next month in the US (here in Chile

they are insanely expensive, D70 (without "s") + lens (which I don't

need) for US$2224), that what I will do, tranfer my old guarantee. Now

my question is: Should I inform Mack's rightaway about the theft, or

only when I have the new camera (hope the old one gets the BGLOD soon)?

 

Then concerning the battery charger (which I of course still have):

1. It is still part of my greatest hope to somehow get hold of the

stolen camera, since it can't be operated without batteries, and these

can't be recharged without the generic charger, which the buyer of the

stolen equipment will have to buy. Therefore I informed the Nikon

service centre yesterday. But eventually I would like to sell the

battery charger to minimise my losses. Since my new camera is probably

going to be an D70s which to my knowledge has a different layout of

batteries, I would have no use for it anyway. So here my question is:

howmuch could I charge for the charger (I would take the average sum

stated here and multiply it with 2, to arrive at Chilean prices)?

[martin_altmann]

Correction: The Mack's guarantee has slightly more than 4 years left (I don't think anybody o has owned a D70 for more than 3 years :-))

[john schroeder]

My experience with extented warranties is that they don't cover ancillary items like cables, chargers, and batteries.

[martin_altmann]

That's not what I meant. My initial question has two entirely independant issues, the first being whether I should inform Mack's asap that my camera has been stolen, and the second concerning selling the battery charger for which I no longer have any use, to minimise the financial loss. I suppose one can sell it for US$50,- or here for US$ 100.

[david_h._hartman]

The charger is probably not worth too much used and I think

you can use both the old and new charger with the old and new

batteries. I dont own a D70 or D70s so double check this

but I think there are only minor improvements in the new

batteries and charges. You might find times where you would like

to charge two batteries at once. I have two batteries and one

charger for my D2H but I wouldnt mind three batteries and

two chargers. Just a thought.<br>

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Regards,<br>

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Dave Hartman.

[john_h.1]

"Since I hopefully will be able to buy a new camera next month in the US... ...that what I will do, tranfer my old guarantee"

 

Are you saying that you believe you can have your existing mack warranty service that applies to one camera transfered so that it applies to a different camera? If so, could you please quote the language that the card says about being able to make such a transfer?