Mark said: > Boyd's seems to be hangin' on. It's good place to get lens caps, filters, > film, and occasionally, used gear. They had short-dated Fuji Super HQ 200 > film for $1.00 a roll when I went two weeks ago. Photo Express did an > excellent job printing it. I think they survive cause Camera Exchange can't > seem to hire someone who doesn't treat you like an idiot and is as retail as > retail gets. I went with a coworker and they were charging her $8.00 a roll > for NPH. Good grief!
Yeah, but the last few times I went to Boyd's, there was next to nothing in the place (in terms of inventory) and the only person out front is this guy who seems to have learnt customer service AT Camera Exchange. He indicated that they didn't have anything, and gave the impression that he didn't give a damn. This has been my experience on at least three trips in the past year (same guy there each time). As to charitably including Ritz/Wolf, well, they do have caps, filters, film ... and on at least one occasion I saw an Optio 550 on display at one of their stores! This was several months after I'd made the trip to Precision Camera in Austin to buy mine, but still it was nice to see that it was, finally, available in San Antonio. So I suppose these days, if Boyd's is a camera store, so is Ritz/Wolf. I stand corrected. ERN
