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Jessops UK - worth trying to negotiate a good price.
Hi,
Here are some comments that suggest you might be able to get a decent price from Jessops, which are quite close to internet prices from Hong Kong. I bought an F6 from Jessops the other day, which is listed on their site at 1499. The guy agreed to sell it at 10% off, making it 1350. Due to a bit of a mix-up with another store shipping it to him via pigeon post, it took a bit longer than necessary. It all worked out okay in the end. He eventually charged me 1325 for the body, which was a bit more than the 10% off, then threw in some film, spare batteries etc. I paid a total of 1570 for the F6 body, 50mm f/1.4 lens, UV filter, spare batteries, 3 rolls of Kodachrome 64 and 4 rolls of 100 ASA print film. On the Jessops internet site, that lot would cost you a *lot* more. Yesterday I went back to the Jessops store, with a copy of a printout from eBay showing the price of a 70-200 f/2.8 VR lens. The list price on the Jessops web site for that lens is 1499 http://www.jessops.com/search/viewpr...WORD_SEARCH=N& - conincidently the same price as an F6 body. Whilst the Jessops store was unable to match the internet price on the lens, he did agree to 1089 pounds, which is 410 pounds less than the 1499 on the Jessops web site. The difference between Jessops and the internet price is not that great now. I still think I will buy it from outside the UK, as I can get it for 819+VAT+duty, which I reckon will be 1023 pounds (65 pounds above Jessops), assuming I'm unlucky and have to pay the VAT+duty, which is not always the case. If I'm lucky and escape the VAT+duty, the price difference is 204 pounds. I'm going to have another go in Jessops today, and see if I can do any better - I want an SB-800 too. If so, I might well buy from Jessops, rather than buying from Hong Kong. 65 pounds more on a 1000 pounds lens is not bad, and worth probably worth it for the UK warranty. A VR zoom lens is a pretty complex bit of kit, so I guess more likely to go wrong than a manual focus lens. I hope this is helpful to some. if not cat /dev/null (and UNIX or Linux viewers will know what I mean by that!) |
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Ebay is not 'Internet Pricing'.
"Dave" wrote in message ... Hi, Here are some comments that suggest you might be able to get a decent price from Jessops, which are quite close to internet prices from Hong Kong. I bought an F6 from Jessops the other day, which is listed on their site at 1499. The guy agreed to sell it at 10% off, making it 1350. Due to a bit of a mix-up with another store shipping it to him via pigeon post, it took a bit longer than necessary. It all worked out okay in the end. He eventually charged me 1325 for the body, which was a bit more than the 10% off, then threw in some film, spare batteries etc. I paid a total of 1570 for the F6 body, 50mm f/1.4 lens, UV filter, spare batteries, 3 rolls of Kodachrome 64 and 4 rolls of 100 ASA print film. On the Jessops internet site, that lot would cost you a *lot* more. Yesterday I went back to the Jessops store, with a copy of a printout from eBay showing the price of a 70-200 f/2.8 VR lens. The list price on the Jessops web site for that lens is 1499 http://www.jessops.com/search/viewpr...WORD_SEARCH=N& - conincidently the same price as an F6 body. Whilst the Jessops store was unable to match the internet price on the lens, he did agree to 1089 pounds, which is 410 pounds less than the 1499 on the Jessops web site. The difference between Jessops and the internet price is not that great now. I still think I will buy it from outside the UK, as I can get it for 819+VAT+duty, which I reckon will be 1023 pounds (65 pounds above Jessops), assuming I'm unlucky and have to pay the VAT+duty, which is not always the case. If I'm lucky and escape the VAT+duty, the price difference is 204 pounds. I'm going to have another go in Jessops today, and see if I can do any better - I want an SB-800 too. If so, I might well buy from Jessops, rather than buying from Hong Kong. 65 pounds more on a 1000 pounds lens is not bad, and worth probably worth it for the UK warranty. A VR zoom lens is a pretty complex bit of kit, so I guess more likely to go wrong than a manual focus lens. I hope this is helpful to some. if not cat /dev/null (and UNIX or Linux viewers will know what I mean by that!) |
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Ebay is not 'Internet Pricing'.
"Dave" wrote in message ... Hi, Here are some comments that suggest you might be able to get a decent price from Jessops, which are quite close to internet prices from Hong Kong. I bought an F6 from Jessops the other day, which is listed on their site at 1499. The guy agreed to sell it at 10% off, making it 1350. Due to a bit of a mix-up with another store shipping it to him via pigeon post, it took a bit longer than necessary. It all worked out okay in the end. He eventually charged me 1325 for the body, which was a bit more than the 10% off, then threw in some film, spare batteries etc. I paid a total of 1570 for the F6 body, 50mm f/1.4 lens, UV filter, spare batteries, 3 rolls of Kodachrome 64 and 4 rolls of 100 ASA print film. On the Jessops internet site, that lot would cost you a *lot* more. Yesterday I went back to the Jessops store, with a copy of a printout from eBay showing the price of a 70-200 f/2.8 VR lens. The list price on the Jessops web site for that lens is 1499 http://www.jessops.com/search/viewpr...WORD_SEARCH=N& - conincidently the same price as an F6 body. Whilst the Jessops store was unable to match the internet price on the lens, he did agree to 1089 pounds, which is 410 pounds less than the 1499 on the Jessops web site. The difference between Jessops and the internet price is not that great now. I still think I will buy it from outside the UK, as I can get it for 819+VAT+duty, which I reckon will be 1023 pounds (65 pounds above Jessops), assuming I'm unlucky and have to pay the VAT+duty, which is not always the case. If I'm lucky and escape the VAT+duty, the price difference is 204 pounds. I'm going to have another go in Jessops today, and see if I can do any better - I want an SB-800 too. If so, I might well buy from Jessops, rather than buying from Hong Kong. 65 pounds more on a 1000 pounds lens is not bad, and worth probably worth it for the UK warranty. A VR zoom lens is a pretty complex bit of kit, so I guess more likely to go wrong than a manual focus lens. I hope this is helpful to some. if not cat /dev/null (and UNIX or Linux viewers will know what I mean by that!) |
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Matt wrote:
"Dave" wrote in message ... Hi, Here are some comments that suggest you might be able to get a decent price from Jessops, which are quite close to internet prices from Hong Kong. Ebay is not 'Internet Pricing'. Can you explain your comments in more detail? The sellers from Hong Kong on eBay are selling new equipment, in large quantities on the internet - one has over 60,000 feedbacks, so I guess he must have made at least 70,000 transactions. Whatever the case, it seems possible to buy new equipement, at a fixed price (no need to bid) on eBay for low prices. |
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I agree that ebay is not internet pricing. Pricerunner would be
internet pricing. Also, you don't have to buy from Hong Kong to realize that Jessops is insanely overpriced. I entered a store the other day and was shocked at the prices of digicams. |
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Hey Dave, you happen to be the only person I come across who bought the
Nikon F6. Many people have reacted negatively to it saying it's too expensive for a film camera at this time. Probably not so if you compare to Leicas. What is your perspective on this? |
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I also recently bought the 70-200 VR from Jessops for £1099 on an
Internet price-match (Park Cameras). No questions asked. A month later I counted my blessings that I bought it from them. The lens went bust, I took it back and they did a straight swap for a new one at the counter. If that had been an eBay purchase it would have been a LOT more difficult. I will always buy Jessops from now on for this reason, except for the small things like filters and memory cards - kit like this doesn't really go wrong and is a *lot* cheaper from HK via eBay (how's a new 2GB Sandisk Ultra II CF for £110 nett sound?). Thing is the price difference isn't always marginal. The Nikon 70-200 is a no brainer - you did the math yourself. You save at the most, if you're savvy, £100-£150. Fairly significant yes, but on expensive equipment that difference is worth its weight in gold with regards to having a local retail outlet with a solid returns policy. But take for instance the Canon equivalent (the 70-200 IS). My friend is after one of these, but the lowest UK price he can find on the net is £1399. On eBay this can be had for under a grand all in, so the difference matters a lot more than on the Nikon and it becomes far less clear-cut. The problem is Jessops will only price match UK stores selling in-stock UK-spec items, so you can't walk up to them with a printout of the eBay HK sellers ad and expect them to match. In your case the eBay price may have been from a HK store (albeit with all the goodies like VAT and shipping slapped on on top of it), but I doubt the store did a match on that merit alone. The price you happened to pay for your lens is the price WarehouseExpress list it as - no coincidence, I think, as WarehouseExpress is a fully-fledged UK retailer. I'd be curious to hear how exactly you approached the price and what print you gave them to show them they're charging a rip-off price (well, for that lens they were anyway). R |
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Dave wrote:
3) Digital camera eat batteries far too quickly. Could you really go on a Safari holiday with a digital camera? Yup. I don't know about ZLRs, but I've been with a compact 3040 (not for animal pics, since 3x zoom is not worth much). The D70 takes 1,000 (or is it 2,000?) pics off one charge. That ought to cut it, I'd think. (Plus, most places have some power anyway). But maybe you were speaking figuratively. -- Ken Tough |
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