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Beachcamera .........thumbs up or thumbs down?

Don wrote:

> Beachcamera .........thumbs up or thumbs down?

Down. I have rarely had good experiences with those sweatshop smooth talking
NY camera shops. I only order photo equipment now from B&H Photo; they
always have in stock what the say, easy web ordering, no bullshit, very
high reputation

"Don" <> wrote in news:l6udnXVfHKRsWHPfRVn-
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> Beachcamera .........thumbs up or thumbs down?
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I have never had a problem with Beach Camera. Fast shipment and
always have item in stock when they say they do.

There are a few Beach buddies on this forum who have nothing but nice things
to say about them --- except when someone posts to say that Beach advertised
a USA warantee on a camera but sent them a grey market version. Apparently
all of the Beach fans were out of town that week.
Except for the few on this forum I've never heard anyone say anything
good about Beach.
I suggest letting those fans deal with Beach and their aliases (buydig.com
is one) while you, I and other apparently way too fussy people stick with
stores that have a good reputation.

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"Don" <> wrote in message
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> Beachcamera .........thumbs up or thumbs down?
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Yes, the scumbag businesses always have their shills working for them.
-S

"Tony" <> wrote in message
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> There are a few Beach buddies on this forum who have nothing but nice
things
> to say about them --- except when someone posts to say that Beach
advertised
> a USA warantee on a camera but sent them a grey market version. Apparently
> all of the Beach fans were out of town that week.
> Except for the few on this forum I've never heard anyone say anything
> good about Beach.
> I suggest letting those fans deal with Beach and their aliases
(buydig.com
> is one) while you, I and other apparently way too fussy people stick with
> stores that have a good reputation.
>
> --
> http://www.chapelhillnoir.com
> home of The Camera-ist's Manifesto
> The Improved Links Pages are at
> http://www.chapelhillnoir.com/links/mlinks00.html
> A sample chapter from "Haight-Ashbury" is at
> http://www.chapelhillnoir.com/writ/hait/hatitl.html
>
> "Don" <> wrote in message
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> > Beachcamera .........thumbs up or thumbs down?
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>

I guess I'm a shill: I've bought many items from Beach camera with no
problems at all, including valid Nikon rebated items.

"Don" <> wrote in message
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> Beachcamera .........thumbs up or thumbs down?

Beach Camera used to have a very bad reputation, like most of the NY/NJ
mail-order stores.

Now it has excellent user reviews (see www.bizrate.com, etc.). What changed
I have no idea. Maybe it's under new management. Maybe it never was as bad
as people thought. I've never dealt with Beach myself.

I have, however, bought several digital cameras from BuyDig.com, which is a
"sister company" or division of Beach Camera. In every case I have been 100%
satisfied. Great price, item in stock when ordered, brand new and with USA
warranty as advertised, shipped extremely fast. Based on my experience with
BuyDig.com, and Beach's excellent customer reviews, I would not hesitate to
buy from Beach if there were a reason to do so, like a lower price than
BuyDig.com. But so far I've had no good reason to buy from other than the
latter company. (I did try elsewhere once because of a substantially lower
advertised price, but for various reasons ended up canceling the order and
ordering from BuyDig.com instead.)

Pay no attention to the paranoid know-it-alls who imagine everyone who
praises a good, reliable low-priced seller must be a "Beach buddy" or a
"shill."

N.

Proteus wrote:

> Don wrote:
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>> Beachcamera .........thumbs up or thumbs down?
>
> Down. I have rarely had good experiences with those sweatshop smooth
> talking NY camera shops. I only order photo equipment now from B&H Photo;
> they always have in stock what the say, easy web ordering, no bullshit,
> very high reputation


I will add that I would have less of an issue buying from NY shops like
Beach, etc. ONLY if doing so through e.g. Yahoo Shopping-- then the whole
transaction has a written record and you can do feedback ratings of the
vendor; I would also ALWAYS add in the comment field of an online buying
experience to "complete order ONLY if item is in stock and can be shipped
within 5 days"; othewise a vendor can INDEFINATELY (yes you read that
right) hold you hostage and ship your order in even a year from taking the
order! They must ship within 30 days of billing your credit card, but they
can wait a year or more before doing that! Once I learned this and saw I
was being shafted by a NY shop for an order, I saw the only way out was to
cancel my credit card and get a new credit card issued!

"Proteus" <> wrote in message
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> I will add that I would have less of an issue buying from NY shops like
> Beach, etc. ONLY if doing so through e.g. Yahoo Shopping-- then the whole
> transaction has a written record and you can do feedback ratings of the
> vendor; I would also ALWAYS add in the comment field of an online buying
> experience to "complete order ONLY if item is in stock and can be shipped
> within 5 days"; othewise a vendor can INDEFINATELY (yes you read that
> right) hold you hostage and ship your order in even a year from taking the
> order! They must ship within 30 days of billing your credit card, but they
> can wait a year or more before doing that! Once I learned this and saw I
> was being shafted by a NY shop for an order, I saw the only way out was to
> cancel my credit card and get a new credit card issued!

Did your *credit card company* tell you that, or did you hear it from
someone in a bar? It seems extremely unlikely to me. Sounds like bullshit,
in fact. Did you call you credit card company when you "saw [you were] being
shafted" in that way?

In any case it has never been a problem with me, and I buy almost everything
camera- or computer-related online and by credit card. I have very, very
rarely wanted to cancel an order, but haven't had any problem doing so on
those few occasions. The only exception was one order from Buy.com, about
which I changed my mind after placing the order and tried to cancel. They
have a provision for doing this, but you have to get the cancellation
request in before the order is processed (which is reasonable enough) and I
was too late in doing so. On most items they process and ship fast. My
fault, not theirs.

N.

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 21:01:43 -0400, Don <> wrote:

> Beachcamera .........thumbs up or thumbs down?

I have bought from both BeachCamera and BuyDig within the past year. Prompt
shipment. No phone call to sell me anything extra. The only problem is they
forgot to include the rebate form. I called and it was promptly sent.

A friend, at my recommendation, just bought from Beach. No problem at all.

If anyone has anything negative to say, it should be a first hand
experience with details of why negative.

Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).