'twas about precisely a year ago when I went and splurged on my biggest acquisition yet.* The gear was all pristine and all, but won't play ball together, I found out later. I could have negotiated something with the seller, but then again, it was several months after the purchase, and I think he did price the stuff with shortcomings in mind.
(*) It was a single transaction of 4200 €, but actually I think I should treat my original silver M the most expensive purchase: I never wasn't going to just buy a body; I shopped a lens for it the very same day. In that sense that was a get of 4800 € for a body and a lens.
My silver M is also at the point it could do with a calibration. Because a given lens behaves differently on the silver M and the black M, it must be wisest to send it all.
I've been slowly preparing myself mentally on the inevitability: will I send my Leica stuff to Wetzlar for CLA in 2023? Two bodies, three lenses. (They probably wouldn't adjust my Jupiter-8 if I sent it alongside.)
And if I do just that, send my stuff over there and expect it all to cost very dearly, I might best purchase some lenses of calibration needs before I send everything over. I'm talking about 90mm and 135mm lenses.
The first step would be to send emails over there and ask noncommittedly about their baseline pricing and handling times and other technical minutiae. That'd get the ball rolling. But I am pretty scared about the charges. I expect something on the order of 2000 € for the whole works (may include shutter replacement on the black M). These imagined estimates are enough for me to procrastinate this months (and probably years) forward.
Two large would buy some other crap I'd happily experiment with. A third Fuji X set maybe? Maybe the third time's the charm. Just maybe...
In any event,
like I wrote previously, the 2021 was overly extravagant time for my GAS and since it ended on such a low note, the dark clouds of it still loom over my future plans.
(Indeed, during 2022 I have so far only bought two sets of gear, the first of which also casts the shades of failure, much like the December purchase.)