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From: todd@ur-helheim.UUCP (Sempei Todd A. Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo,net.consumers
Subject: Re: New York City Camera Stores (47th Street)
Message-ID: <436@ur-helheim.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Jan-86 20:37:34 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 25 20:37:34 1986
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Reply-To: todd@helheim.UUCP (Sempei Todd A. Jackson)
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In article <490@mhuxl.UUCP> smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning) writes:
>> > I found that the most honest store was Hirsch Photo.  The best prices were 
>> > at Camera Barn.  The most disreputable and likely to sell you gray-market 
>> > items, 47th Street Photo.
>> 
>> I don't know what your problem is with 47th Street Photo.
>
>I have been lied to by 47th Street, saying things were in stock or had been
>shipped when they hadn't.  I have had cancelled orders shipped and then they

I also have been out and out lied to by 47th Street.  They told me
that two lenses were in stock for my camera (the salesman actually
checked, i.e. he left the phone for a while), I placed my order
expecting to receive them within days, and received one lens two weeks
later with a note that the other was back ordered.  I called them
about the lens and was told that they had never carried that
particular lens and could not back order it as it was not made in the
mount I required.  Totally pissed off by this time I asked for a
refund which they gave me (to my VISA account) but they failed to refund
the 8.25% sales tax to me.  One more long distance call fixed that problem
but my anger was unabated so I sent their general manager a
note saying that I'd do my best to prevent everybody I knew from ordering
from them.  If any note of apology had then appeared my feelings would
have perhaps been soothed but no such thing happened.  I believe they
are not crooks but they are surely criminally incompetent.

Todd

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