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From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Fujica Mount Other mounts vary in Price
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 14:26:31 EST
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>    Another strange thing.  Photron's prices in the February issue of MODERN
>  and POPULAR are different, some by $10.  FOr example, the Vivitar S1 70-210
>  is $108.95 in POPULAR but $119.95 in MODERN.  In addition, the latter add 
>  warns that this is  "Y/C Mount" whereas the former says nothing.

It's true.  Modern Photography recently made a big deal about honesty in 
mail order, and one of their points was insisting that their not be any
fine print on the prices, such as "other mounts higher" or "sold only with
hard case. Hard case costs $20."  They also made a lot of anonymous calls
to see if cameras could really be bought at the advertised prices, and
dropped some advertisers because of problems.  There's no telling how
long Modern can keep this up,  but for now it appears that prices advertised
in Modern are pretty honest.
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