Rhetorical or not I have to mention that when I was shopping for a camera body, I walked into Ted's and another sales droid replied to "do you stock the mz 5n?" with "you should get a C*non- honestly. Pentax is crap. All the pros use C*non". How's that for subtle.. I wouldn't have been surprised if he told some lil ol lady "your grandkid's in little league? What you really need is a 600 f4.."
Rainier's isn't much better. Photocontinental can be just as bad, but the trick's in avoiding the "i'm working here because mcdonald's hasn't replied yet" droids and getting a droid supervisor who'll have slightly better insight for about 5 sentences before giving a droidling the evil eye for unsuccessfully diverting customers away from him. B&H gets a bit fussy with international credit card orders and address verification and stuff, but I don't think the lens will sit at your front door while you're at work. I recently bought a pair of binoculars from centre.net.au, and they shipped it by courier- I wasn't in at the time but the courier left a card in the mailbox and dropped it off at the PO for me to collect later.. You might want to check though.. Cheers, Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derby Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax Discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:47 PM Subject: B&H shipping - a rhetorical gripe > > Rob's SMH article got me thinking about buying from B&H again (really > would like that 77mm Ltd for my sister's wedding). I checked with > Fletcher's and the price difference is astounding. And more disturbing, > the sales droid at Ted's was adamant there was no such thing as a 77mm > lens. Hrumpf. > > But I notice now, they don't ship international to an address other than > the credit card billing address. I'm sure they used to. I hate to have > them send a $700 lens and have it sitting on my front door while I'm at > work. I used to be able to ship it my work address. > > grrr... > D > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~derbyc > > >
