Yes I'd expect them to sell it to me at that price. There was an instance I read of several years back where Dell's online site had, I believe, Canon EOS 5D's improperly advertised at a substantially lower price. From what I recall, they sold the completed orders at the advertised price
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:22 AM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
