[MacDV] Re: Shady Photo Dealers

[Timothy Luoma]

On Apr 20, 2005, at 3:07 AM, Donald Bahringer wrote:

> Beware of some of those Brooklyn photo dealers. I received a follow up 
> e-mail after an order requesting me to call their 800 number to 
> "expedite" my order. I called and found out the only purpose of the 
> call was to have a salesman pressure me to buy outrageously priced 
> accessories for the camera that I had ordered. The camera was priced 
> suspiciously low and was backordered for 8 weeks which looks like a 
> bait and switch scam. From now on I will deal with reputable dealers 
> like B&H and others with good ratings.

This is extremely common practice unfortunately.  Something will be "in 
stock" if you agree to the accessories and "backordered" if you don't.

Not worth the money you save.

TjL