7 On Your Side Investigates: Bay Area photographer says $10,500 Leica M11-P Safari digital camera lacking after transport with UPS

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Another excessive worth, one-of a-kind lacking UPS cargo. 7 On Your Side Investigates has lined a number of uncommon objects misplaced by the transport firm that then seem on the market on eBay or at an public sale.

Dave Herring has been documenting folks and locations for 20 years, so it ought to come as no shock that he documented what he believes to be the theft of his Leica M11-P Safari digital camera on his YouTube channel.

“Feeling anxious, feeling betrayed,” stated Herring in a YouTube video he made.

The video has greater than 80,000 views and 1,300 feedback.

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Herring calls himself a Leica photographer. The model is well-known by pictures fans, and the lacking digital camera is value $10,500.

“It’s not a camera that is easily replaceable, and it’s not a camera that has been mass produced,” Herring stated.

Herring was mailing the digital camera again to Leica for a restore. He says he advised the UPS Store he was transport a digital camera and that it was insured on his Professional Photographer’s of America coverage, which is why he did not go for extra insurance coverage when he dropped it off.

“How did you figure out that the camera never made it back to Leica,” requested ABC7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow.

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“Upon checking the tracking number, it said that the item had never been picked up by UPS, and it never left the store,” Herring stated. “Everything was inconclusive and their official position is packages go missing.”

In his analysis, Herring discovered 7 On Your Side Investigates prior protection of different uncommon lacking UPS shipments.

UPS advised clients Woodrow has interviewed that the merchandise was lacking, and the cartons had been discarded.

But, a lacking guitar later turned up on the market on a Guitar Center web site. A bike supercharger later turned up on the market on eBay, and a one-of-a-kind portray later turned up on the market on a pallet at an NPS public sale.

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“Wow, is there something going on even at just a local level here?” Herring stated. “I would love to see some like answers to that and some accountability for that rather than just corporate handwashing.”

In an emailed assertion, a UPS spokesperson wrote, partly: “UPS works hard to prevent losses by closely monitoring our operations, maintaining strong security measures, and cooperating with law enforcement when needed.”

UPS reimbursed Herring $100 for the usual declared worth of all shipments — since he did not buy extra insurance coverage — and $72.63 for the transport.

He says the digital camera’s serial quantity is logged with Leica and if anybody tries to restore or register it, the corporate would flag it.

Herring was capable of get absolutely reimbursed from his Professional Photographer’s of America Policy, however he says, up till now, in all his years as a photographer, he is by no means needed to file a declare.

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