Last year I bought a Demo pair of Zeiss Victory off Doug when he advertised them here. The demo pair I received had smudged fingerprint marks all over the lenses and also had some pretty good marks on them. Tried to email Camerland several times and left a phone message and never received ANY response. I sent pics of how the binocs were received and details of the condition. Just no respons. Contacted Zeiss but they said I'd have to send them in and they would be evaluated because they were demo units. Sounded like a pain and a long wait so I just sold the binocs at a loss and decided that was the last time I'd do business with Camerland.
I will say, they were awful helpful when selling me 3 pairs of Ultravids and a pair of Swaros.
It doesn't matter what they were, there is either a warranty, or there is no warranty...there is no "evaluation". And if there is no warranty they should not have been sold to you.
