It's my first purchase from Adorama, and since the transaction went hassle-free (I had more trouble from local customs than Adorama), I'd just like to extend my thanks to Helen and her colleagues over at Adorama.
Helen, you'll be sure to get more business from me in the future.
I'd also like to extend gratitude towards forum members who have reassured me of Adorama's good service in another thread. Thanks guys!
Anyway, I got a KX rated as E-. I thought the description given for the rating was similar to KEH's BGN rating, and I was not disappointed.
The front face of the camera looks flawless, save for a little brassing that you really wouldn't notice unless you looked closely enough.
The top of the camera is equally clean, and save for a bit of dirt on the main pin on the hotshoe, you couldn't tell if it's new or not.
The back of the camera had two discernible scratches near the top (not significant for me) and on the viewfinder frame (doesn't affect anything save for aesthetics), and amazingly, the innards are clean, curtain cloth and all.
The bottom of the camera is most likely where it fell from a possible E rating. There's a circular brassed area surrounding the tripod mount, and I'm guessing it might have come from the camera being stuck on a tripod for so long or something. I really don't mind it.
What's most important is that everything works as it should, even the metering. Being used to the KM and K1000's metering, I thought the KX's meter was borked since the needle was stuck at the top even when I had no batteries on the camera yet (that situation denoted a charged battery for the KM/K1000 using the battery check method on those cameras).
Feeling less happy about it but not sad (the listing didn't indicate a broken meter, but still pleased with everything else working), I popped two LR44's inside, hoping it might goad the meter to jumpstart or something. Lever advance, half-press... then the needle moved!
I was giddy all of a sudden! Then I pushed back the film lever and the needle popped back in it's place at the top. I thought, "Bummer!", since I was of the idea that there might be some loose coupling or something since the film advance lever was playing tricks on the needle. I already was planning a trip to the local repair guy to fix that up.
Then, I read a downloaded KX manual. Everything behaved like it was supposed to behave, apparently.
Lesson learned for me - always read the darn manual before assuming that something's wrong with a device.
That, and KEH's BGN is roughly akin to Adorama's E-.
All in all, one happy camper here. I would've wanted an MX to be the all-mechanical complement to the LX, but I'm not complaining. The KX is as competent. The newly-acquired KX being black is a nice bonus.