Surely you have followed this up before now :

The old cashback was slow but you are the first person that I have heard of, who never received anything.

As Gwyn says, that cashback was outsourced to a company with almost zero staff and not a clue about the idea of customer service.

The cashback before that was handled from Pentax in Slough by someone whose biro ran out frequently, resulting in the slow arrival of cheques.

One would hope that Pentax has learnt some lessons by now

You just need everybody to take a photograph of a timepiece that they consider to be a treasure, submit the one image for both competitions and then you can use the same comments

I have nearly done the same thing.

Perhaps the system could allow a ten minute slot for people to correct inadvertent errors :

..........not to mention that the only loo was at the end of the garden

It will work - just set the lens to manual, which is how the 1.7 is used with any auto lens.

A comment addressed to Bessie Braddock - I believe.

I must get around to applying for mine

It is all about finding the time

The words under my photograph should read :-

"Based on conjecture - of course "

I could not find a way of correcting the typo

...........which reminds me...................

Is Stefan gainfully employed somewhere these days