You can rely on B&H Photo in New York. They close for the Sabbath, so make sure any Friday calls are in the morning or early afternoon.
Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis President Productivity Enhancement > -----Original Message----- > From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:13 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: I hate online-photo stores > > I wanted to buy a wide angle adapter for my canon camcorder. Canon > makes a nice adapter than runs about $140. Did the google product > search and found a place that had it on sale for $120 and it was in > stock. Ordered it, payed with paypal. This morning, I get an email > stating that there's an issue with my order and they haven't been able > to contact me at my phone number....interesting since I've had my > phone with me all weekend. > > So I call the place up. The tell me that the canon lens is on > backorder for a very long long time. Internal flag goes up. I play > along. > > "So what's a similar product?" I ask. > > "Oh, well, for your camcorder we have a great lens by Digital Vision, > and it's even .45x instead of .7x" > > "How much is this lens" > > "It's only $149.99 so just a little bit more than the canon" > > "Who is Digital Vision?" > > "You've never heard of Digital Vision?" > > "Nope, and tell you what, let's just cancel this order" > > "Are you trying to tell me that you want the canon lens that has the > bad CA and blurry edges" > > "yep" > > "So are you trying to say you want the paypal transaction refunded" > > "yep" > > "ok, goodbye" > > > > > -- > Hindsight is always 20-20, > But looking back it's still a bit fuzzy > Speak of mutually assured destruction? > Nice story... Tell it to Reader's Digest! > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:267423 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
