Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/07

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Subject: [Leica] Adorama vs. B&H backorder policy...and oh yeah, I just ordered an M9
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:09:19 -0600
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On 3/7/2010 5:59 PM, Vince Passaro wrote:
> Yo Howard
>
> A.) You should write to B&  H. They tend to be very customer friendly. I
> would assume they don't want to take orders that aren't really orders....
> control their inventory?
>
> B.) Where you gettin 6 percent bro? At an annual return of .33 percent,
> that's $2.20.
>
> Vince
>
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Howard Ritter<hlritter at bex.net>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Well, I decided to just do it.
>>
>> I usually buy from B&H, but on back-orders their practice is to charge the
>> buyer's credit card when the order is PLACED.
>> Adorama charges only when the item SHIPS.
>> I don't want to give anyone use of my $7000 for a few (?) months 
>> needlessly
>> and for no return (at 6% that's $35/mo).
>> Anyone know why B&H is so unfriendly in this respect? Keeping an order
>> active in the system until the item's in stock costs them nothing.
>> But this practice clearly costs them orders.
>>
>> ?howard
>>
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Vince, where are you getting .33%? :) :)


Replies: Reply from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] Adorama vs. B&H backorder policy...and oh yeah, I just ordered an M9)
In reply to: Message from hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter) ([Leica] Adorama vs. B&H backorder policy...and oh yeah, I just ordered an M9)
Message from passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro) ([Leica] Adorama vs. B&H backorder policy...and oh yeah, I just ordered an M9)