Adorama ripped me off recently. B&H has never ripped me off. To each his own, I guess.
Stan Halpin wrote: > I have had generally good success with both. Adorama has tended to > have better selection of Pentax gear in the last few years. What got > me steamed about my recent experience is that they arbitrarily > cancelled my order and, even worse in my mind, did not let me know. > I was not too surprised about the cancellation. My confirmed (?) > order was for the lens at a price which was $60 or so less than the > current discount-photo price. I was mildly surprised that they > honored the original price with the DA* 50-135. But what I did > expect, what I expect from any company with good customer service, > would have been an email along the lines of: "we regret that we > cannot fill your order at the original price due to Pentax pricing > changes in the period since you first placed the order. Please > confirm that you still want the lens at the new price = $xxx.xx." > Instead they just cancelled the order. > > stan > > On Oct 18, 2007, at 12:06 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > >> From: Godfrey DiGiorgi >>> I've never dealt with Adorama. For some reason, they've always seemed >>> a rather odd outfit to me. The folks at B&H get most of my business. >> I've dealt with both. There's not a fig's worth of difference >> between them. >> >> Both offer a fairly good selection and both give good service. I've >> had >> the occasional problem with either one, but always had the problem >> resolved to my satisfaction. >> >> If I can't find something I need from a local dealer (like to keep >> those >> local dealers in business in case I need 'em later), I won't >> hesitate to >> purchase from either Adorama or B&H. >> >> Sometimes one has the better price, sometimes the other does. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
