Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site umn-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!smith From: smith@umn-cs.UUCP (Richard Smith) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Re: Buying in Japan Message-ID: <549@umn-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 21:04:31 EDT Article-I.D.: umn-cs.549 Posted: Tue Oct 2 21:04:31 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 02:36:52 EDT Sender: notes@umn-cs.UUCP Organization: Computer Science Dept., U of Minn, Mpls, MN Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:browngr:-136700:umn-cs:9000019:000:839 Nf-From: umn-cs!smith Oct 2 09:31:00 1984 I visited Japan and Hong Kong about ten years ago. Here's how I'd plan my shopping if I had to do it differently: 1. Develop a good notion of what 'good' prices are in the States (i.e. bring along a copy of Pop Photo or one of the other photo equipment catalogs that masquerade as magazines). 2. If you can easily arrange things that way, visit Hong Kong first. If you don't find it in Hong Kong, then you can look for it in Japan. The story of Hong Kong being cheaper was common back then, but it didn't really prove to be true for me: the prices were very similar. This may have changed. My best 'deal' of the trip was a discontinued press camera that one dealer was selling for (then) $100, about a third of the U.S. price. That was in Tokyo on the Ginza. So be sure to look for places having sales. Rick.