Beware of PriceRitePhoto

I hope you paid with a credit card so that you can have the card company reverse the transaction. I have a real problem with doing transactions involving large amounts with unknown companies and "large amounts" to me are much, much less than you paid.

Walker
 
thanks for the heads up

thanks for the heads up

good that you posted this. Whenever this sort of thing happens, I hope everyone here says something right away. This is good anti-publicity and is more effective than is immediately obvious. I mean, how many people will read this, and tell someone who tells someone. Heck, if I thought anyone ever went to my website, I'd ask to post a link to your story on my page. But no one goes there. I just do to make myself feel good.

Anyway, thanks for posting, and it is good to know that Yahoo's system is worthless too.

I buy from B&H Photo and will buy from Robert White tomorrow.

B&H has been great. They replaced a camera that was broken, but which I broke further (thus killing the warranty). That was very nice of them. and they paid all the shipping.

Good business should get good reviews, and bad should get bad.

This gives me an idea for a new thread.

Thanks
 
Fredus, this is you!? I just read about this on boingboing. A lot of the brooklyn places are insanely bad, it sounds like this place rivals Cambridge Camera for worst in the state.
 
shaaktiman said:
Fredus, this is you!? I just read about this on boingboing. A lot of the brooklyn places are insanely bad, it sounds like this place rivals Cambridge Camera for worst in the state.
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No no. I didn't have this sad experience !! Just wanted to make everybody aware of these people ... Poor guy ...

Fred
 
Well I've seen similar things in a different context, but serious enough though. It's very common here for technological mall markets (mainly selling consumer electronics and computers) to drop advertisings at your mailbox announcing incredible deals on this or that item, with offers starting day A and lasting up to B.

You either go there or order online, but curiously even if you do it the first day, items are suspiciously out of stock. Then they tell you that no problem they will have it ordered and call you back when it's there. Of course they don't so you have to do it only to find that the end of the offer has arrived and if you want that thing you'll have to pay more for it.

Obviously you don't, but you find yourself with a few weeks or a whole month of lost time, and you still don't have what you wanted.

The aggressive marketing and advertising campaigns nowadays have made me turn my purchase intentions towards smaller, maybe a tad more expensive but with a lot more personal service sites or stores.

I hope the guy will get that solved in the best way possible and also forwards that experience to some consumer protection service.
 
Wow, thanks for passing that link Bill, these paragraph

"* You can't actually buy just a camera. Many disreputable companies make their money overcharging for accessories or shipping. If you hold your ground and insist on just the camera, they will take your order, but will never ship you a camera! After a week, you start to worry and call, you will be told that the camera went "out of stock". If you call again and pretend to place an order 10 minutes later, the sales person will tell you "sure, that is in stock"! In reality, they will NEVER send you a camera at the super attractive price unless you overpay for something. Some shops will even hang up on you, or you will be accidently disconnected if you insist on buying just the camera. Then never sell just the camera. Ever."

Is indeed premonitory by reading the story above...
 
WDG said:
You may find this of interest:

Photo: 136, Album: Brooklyn Storefronts/Store Fronts
C&A Marketing, d.b.a. PriceRitePhoto.com and TheCameraMall.com
254 36th Street, Suite 202
The door to C&A Marketing.

http://donwiss.com/pictures/BrooklynStores/h0136.htm
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Ooh, spooky! You'd never think that when you see the website, eh? Thanks!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
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