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
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