If you’re about to buy photographic equipment, you may want to know the truth about some bargains and bargains circulating between stores.
Large camera companies, distributors, retail stores and sales channels are under increasing pressure to sell more cameras. Competition between them is fierce and sometimes reaches unethical limits.
- Today.
- I would like to warn you about some very unethical practices that many distributors and photography stores use to attract customers and sell more cameras.
- Please understand me.
- If you would like to buy a camera with this.
- I’m not saying to stop doing it.
- Go ahead.
- But at least your purchase will be a little more rational if you read this?.
Who does not know any of those online stores where they bring an item every day at a “very low” price, and you only have that day to buy it at a “bargain” price. Well, most of these daily deals online stores are honest, they work well, and you can’t blame them for anything. The truth is that some have directly decided to use lies as a commercial promotion tool: they have put a reduced price on the camera, supposedly 100 euros, when basically it is not. not true, or not at all. Example: they give you a camera discounted to 500 euros and its standard price in physical stores is, supposedly, 600 euros. You see it and you say “man, I’m saving 100 dollars and I invite the relative to a dinner at the Palace, he is going to panic, you’ll see, you have to give it to him to buy this camera. ” “Yeah, done! Take a look at another store to see how much the camera really costs under normal conditions. Look at another store, another and another. Compare it. In the end, several times, you realize that this camera never had cost those supposed 600 euros. That his standard price, without offer or good deal, was precisely 500 euros. Or maybe 508 euros and the saving is only 8 euros (farewell dinner at the Palace . . . well, Burger King Yes maybe).
Again, there are Daily Deals pages that really work, where prices are really low. Check it out before you bite. That’s all.
Something similar happens with the VAT-free day, some stores declare the day without VAT, you make your accounts and you see it clear: you have to buy and maybe you’re right. What needs to be checked anyway is the extent to which the price at which the VAT reduction will be applied is actually the correct price for this item. You know, there’s no fair price, but I mean it must be the price of this camera or lens in the rest of the stores. Sometimes there may be differences, okay, but if this matches the store that offers the day without VAT, this is where we find the most expensive price. . Mmmmm. . I don’t know. Bad deal. The next time you attend a VAT-free day, make the purchases you have to make, take the opportunity, this can be a great opportunity, but never leave without first checking what you want in other stores. a precaution more than anything.
Please don’t let all messy owners put me around my neck. What I am going to describe is a practice that I experienced first hand in more than one of those bazaars where they sell you cameras, lenses, conversion lenses, MP3 players and the like. That does not mean that everyone is like that, many are honest. Probably. I don’t know if mine will be bad luck but I’ll leave it here for the record. The trick of these men is that they put a very expensive item (camera, lens, tripod) in the window and put a sign next to it with a simply IMPOSSIBLE price. An incredibly affordable price. You see it and you can’t resist. You walk into the stores and gently (trying to contain your happiness) ask the employee or the manager: “Excuse me, I wanted this camera that puts so much in the window. ” From that moment you see how the clerk’s face begins to change from a friendly smile to a face of problems and pity when he responds: “Ayyy . . Only one is spoiled and I am not. I have nothing left” or “Hidden in the sea . . ! This is sold. Then he continues “Hey, I can show you a cooler one and, in proportion, for the extras it brings and others, it comes out almost better, listen to me. After 7 minutes, you leave the store loaded with a camera that you never wanted to buy, having paid a normal price or as expensive as in any other store, neither business nor opportunity.
Many distributors sell SLR cameras in kits (lens case) and as commercial crochet offer a course of face-to-face photography as a gift to the purchase of the camera, what many buyers do not know is that the course is held in a city other than their own and that to enjoy it they will have to go to Madrid, Barcelona, Seville or you know. He us up.
Sometimes we have the question of which camera to buy, which comes with a single case (perhaps with a lens), or one that comes with a camera and lens plus a number of extras like a case, a memory card, a manual, etc. Before embarking on this second option, consider how well it’s worth paying this price difference for these extras. Are you really going to enjoy it? Memory cards, maybe you already have many and you don’t need them, or you may want to buy them separately to choose the very good ones, the camera case is interesting, but I know many users who had to leave the case in a drawer because they realized, after a few weeks, that they needed a real backpack where they could store a camera and accessories , a camera that can be carried everywhere, and not an awkward little business. in each other’s personal case, so rate the extras before rushing.
With today’s article, I think I’ve earned the hostility of camera brands and distributors.
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