Scott Loveless wrote: > >At this point I chuckled and walked out. The conversation > was a quite > >a bit longer, but I'm sure you get the picture. I still am not sure > >why she was so insistent on steering me away from the Pentax. All > >three kits were roughly the same price.
Cotty wrote: > This is why I spend hours on the net doing my own research > and making my own choices. If I had access to a camera shop > (I do) that stocked what I was interested in (they don't) > then I would use it accordingly (I don't). > Meanwhile, the downward spiral continues whereby such shops > close their doors forever. A sad state of affairs. I'm always wary of staff in cameras shops trying to steer me into either buying something with a good mark up or something they can't push, if I ask for advice. As I buy Pentax products, I don't have an easy local shop anyway. With the increase of shops/big chains having a good web presence, plus eBay, doing some research and often listening to groups who own the product, is regularly saving me time, money and disappointment from buying the wrong item. If anything, I have a very much larger global market, available from my home at opening hours to suit me. Malcolm
