Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT - internet ordering
From: Sam <sam@osheaven.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 19:47:06 -0500
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If you can't get it right with B&H Photo or Adorama, nobody else is 
going to do it better.

Sam S


Matthew Powell wrote:

> On Mar 12, 2004, at 5:12 PM, Morton Enterprises wrote:
>
>>   I have never heard of a business taking that long to process and 
>> ship an order.  I cancelled the order today and will probably never 
>> do business with them again.
>> For what it's worth
>> Bruce Morton
>
>
> That sounds like my experience with B&H near Christmas. I ordered an 
> (in-stock) Toyo-View 45CX kit a couple of weeks before Christmas, they 
> shipped the package right away, and it wasn't until I opened the box 
> that I found out the lens was backordered.
>
> It took another two weeks of calls (B&H e-mail customer service is 
> useless apparently) to determine that they had no idea when the lens 
> would be in-stock, and the general reaction on their end seemed to be 
> 'tough.' Then it took another two weeks to get a shipping label faxed 
> to me so that I wouldn't have to pay shipping for their screw-up 
> (which I had to demand).
>
> And to finish off, they tried to refund only the money for the 
> body/board/film holders, "because that's all I had sent back." Well, 
> gee, funny that I didn't return a nonexistent lens.
>
> Throughout this process the kit was listed as in-stock, of course. I 
> wish they didn't have that imported Tri-X cheap, I had promised myself 
> not to deal with them again.
>
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