Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Re: Buying from mail order catalogs Message-ID: <969@hound.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 14:15:17 EST Article-I.D.: hound.969 Posted: Fri Mar 1 14:15:17 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 05:11:51 EST References: <1935@sdcc6.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 20 [] I've dealt with Focus (Honest Abe) in Brooklyn for about 10 years and have no complaints. I"ve also used one or two others without serious trouble. The one situation I've learned to avoid is - unless it's a new item which hasn't had time to get into an ad, don't order something they don't advertise. They will take your order, but they don't advertise it, hence they don't carry it - for reasons which your measely little order is not going to affect. They will give you your money back when you insist, or let you switch to another product. But when delivery is not a few days, but over a month, wise up - better yet don't place such an order in the first place. Modern Photog mag makes a point of policing - to some extent - advertisers in a well marked section of their mag. Probabilities are high you will not have any trouble. THat's why there are so few local camera stores anymore. Only outlets for selling to people who know nothing about photography. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg