Hmm, sorry but that is a load of crap. There are a lot of good sellers out
there, I would agree that Amazon has the best on-line shop but quite often I
find something I want at Amazon and then buy it a place that has a better
price. I do regularly buy at Amazon, usually when they have a sale or
special offer but often their prices are far from the best. B&H is indeed a
great place with good prices too but when I bought my Canon A95 it was the
month they were introduced and the prices were steep, I found it at
Butterfly Photo for 318.00 shipped when the going price most every other
place was in the 400.00 range and I got it in 2 days. Why anyone would
suggest limiting themselves to 2 places is beyond me. `-(
I have had one bad experience in all my years of on-line shopping, an outfit
that took my money for a set of 5 JBL speakers and sent nothing, that was in
my first year of buying on-line but I was still usually very careful and
checked out any seller before buying from them, BUT the speakers I wanted
were very highly reviewed, not expensive, had recently gone out of
production and were very hard to find. When I found a place that had them in
stock after much searching I leapt without looking.
The story had a
happy ending, I did end up knowing in advance I was probably going to get
screwed, printed out all the BS web pages and email correspondence from the
bogus retailer, sent it all off to my CC company and they dropped the
charge. A place I had previously checked (J&R) ended up having them briefly
in stock at an even better price, so I did get them and paid even less.
Tip if you ever shop at J&R (jr.com) they have been around for as long as I
can remember in Sunday NYC newspaper ads and in HiFi magazines, they have a
great website but are still very telephone oriented, find what you want,
order it by phone, ask for a better price and you will usually get at
another 10% or so knocked off.
I used to use Newegg almost exclusively, I have a small PC business and have
ordered tens of thousands of dollars of PC hardware from Newegg over the
years without any issue. As they have gotten so popular their prices have
crept up and their lightning fast shipping has slowed a bit and I shop
around a bit more these days but Newegg is still at the top of my list for
anything PC, the user reviews at Newegg are almost worthless, mostly
cheerleaders for Newegg itself. I have only had to use Newegg once for a
return of a defective power supply, I didn't think I should have to pay the
shipping but it was the same policy as any other hardware vendor I used at
the time.
"Dr. Joel M. Hoffman" <joel.TakeThisOut@exc.com> wrote in message
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> >Forgive the intrusion, but if interested I hope you purvue the TOS at
>>NewEgg.com before you pay cash and possibly get nothing.
>
> It's hard for me to imagine why anyone buys from anyone other than B&H
> or Amazon. Amazon has the world's easiest website to navigate, along
> with great customer service, and B&H is without doubt the leader in
> photographic equipment. If you find a price below what B&H and Amazon
> are offering, the odds are it's too good to be true....
>
> -Joel
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