Well there is the Sigma case $299 the Sigma lens mount cover $48 the Sigma this $26 the Sigma that $65 etc etc ...the "package A that inludes all the aforementioned and a 256 MB CF card for only $999.......
"And oh by the way, Although we are temporarily out of stock, Have you heard about the Stalingrad 200? It's actually a better camer than the Sigma and since we don't have the Sigma right now, we would be glasd to...."
Beside they don't actually sell you the camera.
They get you to do a a "preorder" with a "guaranteed" price.
(BTW they charge your credit card when you place the "preorder".)
Later two things can happen.
The camera can become widely avail at $1499. Do you get your camera? Not yet. First they sell to everbody else that comes flooding in for camera at $1499 and for which the have some stock. They don't have to worry about you. They have your money and they have your "contract". Now ehen the camera drops down to $1299 the scenario is repeated. Again you don't get a camera unless somewher they end up wth more cameras than fresh orders. Then they ship you the camera.
They've had a free loan for a very long time.
And BTW, it's a Gray Market camera only missing a few things. Like maybe the lens.
Or.
You begin to suspect that you have been ripped off after several months of waiting.
They send you your money back.
But.
This only occurrs after many phone calls and "misinterpretations".
BTW, most NY shops (Not B&H_ do not hesitate to curse and call you names at this stage.) They will also withhold a "handling" fee.
They've had a free loan for a very long time.
One very sad thing has just occurred.
http://www.resellerratings.com apparently has folded.
Used to be able to go there and check out the sleaze balls.
Fireworks?
Not really.
In NY these things are handled by the Consumer Affairs agency.
They
1 - wait until they have a mountain of evidence. Somtimes two years or more.
2 Go to court with some young lawyer who just got in town from Fargo.
The Store lawyer gets continuances for a couple of years at which point ABC Photo becomes ABCPhoto.
No one in NY buys from these guys.
It's been going on for years and the internet has only expedited things.
Homer
Can anyone tell me why this NY outfit has to gain by this?? Surely
no one could survive very long taking money and not delivering
goods, which would be high level interstate no-no's, subject to
heavy sanctions. Yet they are there and apparently successful and
surviving, so what gives?
"You can fool some of the people all the time and all of the people
some of the time...and those are pretty good odds." PT Barnum.
