Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, I am not sure it is illegal; I believe that the mail order section in Pop Photo contains a set of guidelines by which advertisers in the magazine are supposed to abide, nothing more. On another note, I have had mostly positive experiences with B&H; you do have to be clear about what you want and not expect advice over the phone (or in person). Another good shop is Smile Photo, also in New York. I did have a bad experience with Focus Camera in New York about 10 years ago and have not spent a penny with them since. I now tend to support local dealers too, but of course this requires that there are local dealers around who are on a higher caliber than the typical Ritz Camera mall store (there are Belgian equivalents of those) where the salespeople have no more knowledge of photography than of washing machines. I am lucky to have found a couple of nice places locally with the help of fellow LUGgers, and I now always go there first. My new 135/3.4 APO Telyt was bought at one such local dealer, and I just upgraded to a new 35 Summicron APSH at another. Of course, when you live in Europe you also have to consider pricing differences among countries. If I lived in Denmark, for example, I probably would never buy a Leica item there; the price level is just so much higher than in Germany that it would make no sense at all. Nathan Eric Welch wrote: > I believe it is quite illegal to hold an order more than 30 days after > charging a credit card. At least in Mail Order. This may be one useful bit > of info. we can glean from Pop Photo. :-) They have a section on mail order > in each issue. Anybody got a copy? > -- > > Eric Welch > St. Joseph, MO > http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have > learned English...no human being has been reported to have learned > dolphinese. > > Carl Sagan - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium Photography page: http://members.tripod.com/~belgiangator/index.html Motorcycle page: http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/1704/index.html