On May 21, 2010, at 1:57 AM, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boris Liberman" > Subject: Re: Leica M9 > > >> On 5/21/2010 12:32 AM, John Sessoms wrote: >>> Not at Best Buy... >> >> That's kind of a horror story to me. To buy something in order to return it >> and get some money in the process out of thin air, effectively... OMG... >> *sigH* > > To bring this back somewhat to on topic (relevent to photography, if not > Pentax), many years ago I was told of a local photographer who specialized on > food and lifestyle photography. > She shopped at the local higher end stores, buying place settings, cutlery, > glasswear, linens, whatever was needed for the project she was working on at > the time. > When she was done, it all went back for a refund. > Or so I was told, anyway. > > William Robb > A lot of photographers, set designers and wardrobe people work that way. The pros usually develop relationships with certain stores. The retailer knows that a few items will be purchased -- disposables and clothing that might be abused. The rest is returned. But it's generally done with an understanding.
For example, to dress several people for a television commercial, the wardrobe consultant might bring thirty different outfits to a review session -- all with pricetags hanging. Three will be chosen, the rest returned. Paul > > -- > 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.
