On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 01:01:06AM -0500, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > Pretty much the same way as many PDMLers, I've been considering > B&H as a reliable vendor. I've bought a bunch of euqipment from them, > and except for the fact that they wouldn't ship a $40 reflector to > the hotel or to the FedEx office, I had no problem. > > So, I was surprised to read the response from Henry Posner > (whom I rembember when he was responding to complaints on Usenet - > in rec.photo.equipment.35mm back in mid-90s) > to a message from an unfortunate buyer Polymistis (1/26/10, 9:47am) > http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1914-p1-s2-d1.html#reviews > > I am totally surprised why he thinks "I also note our website says, > "Prices, specifications, and images are subject to change without > notice." is an excuse for changing the price (or the item sold) > after the sale has happened. > Well, yes, they made a mistake. I can understand that they don't want > to sell the product at 1/2 price. But then they sholud apologize for > it profusely - why do they blame the buyer for it?
What's the big deal? If an update to their web site accidentally listed a K-7 at the K-x sale price would you expect them to sell you one for that? Really? I'm with Henry on that one - the price was obviously an error. > On a different subject, - I am rather annoyed by the recent thing > that B&H (and a few other resellers, including Adorama, Buydig, > Amazon, etc.) started doing when they do not show the price on their > website until you add the item to the shopping cart. > Some of them say that it dictated by the manufacturer not allowing > them to display low prices. I am not sure if that's all true, - but > that sounds like a bunch of bologna. > Does anybody know if there is any substantial reason behind that game? Yes. The sale price is below what they have agreed with Pentax as the "lowest advertised price", so they don't show it on an open web page. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
