No right channel in new cartridge

There are better cartridges even for $500, i paid same price for my Dynavector KARAT 23RS MR Ruby in NOS condition for example. There are many options for MC or decent MM for the same price.

SoundSmith will have to open your cartridge, sometimes it means to break the cartridge and glue it back (not sure about Sumiko). Not sure why do you need all these damage if you’re not even sure he can fix it? Fixing coil is not cheap at all. Reparing coil wire is actually very expensive. Are you sure he can do that in 6 weeks? I think your cartridge will be inspected in 6 weeks. But It can take 3-5 month to fix the problem. 

Well, now that you know it is defective, why not send it back and get either a refund or purchase something comparable?
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I inquired to a fellow on A'gon a few years back on getting a certain price on a used cartridge he was selling. He verbally agreed on my lower price, but that same day I went on the forums about cartridges and low and behold, there he was talking to another audiophile about the same cartridge he was going to sell me. He told the other guy the cart. had a serious channel imbalance. This ended my pursuit of his cartridge. Yes, I got lucky on that one....

@tochsii I hope you understand that defective MC cartridge (with one channel off) cost no more than $50. And even fully refurbished cartridge can't cost as much as the original.    

One thing: it is sometimes the case that pin orientation is different from cartridge to cartridge. Maybe it’s just miswired.