cristian_gatina Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 i want to purchase a canon eos 20d camera from "infintiphoto" online store , the price is very good (too good , somewhere around 800 dollars for the body)"infinitiphoto" is listed in streetprice.com but i�m afraid that it is a scum. did anyone have more information on "infinitiphoto"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecarter Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 http://www.resellerratings.com/seller9662.html I'd stay away from them, personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenPapai Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Hard to beleive the extreme naivete of some people, which is why these Brooklyn/Nigerian scams will never end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen hazelton Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Normally, places like B&H and Adorama will sell it about as cheap as it can be sold. If you see it sold much cheaper elsewhere, it's probably a scam of one type or another. Or a "scum"! Look on the "neighbor-to-neighbor" section on this site. If you can't find anything about them, that's a bad sign. On their website...UPS ground shipping is $32. Hmmmm. Non-refundable- if they send you the wrong thing, you're still out $32. In Brooklyn- bad sign. No street address listed- bad sign. To return, you have to have a return authorization, but to do that, you have to get ahold of them- can be a bad sign. See what the store looks like here: http://donwiss.com/pictures/BrooklynStores/ Note their other names when using Neighbor-to-Neighbor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoneguy Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 I asked the same question back in november, Check out this thread... http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00EIRS They are a Scam! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_van_hulle1 Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 You posted the same question nine hours ago and got excellent answers. Do you think anything has changed since then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacob_napthine Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 G'day Cristian. You could always give your money to charity. That won't get you a camera either, but at least you won't feel foolish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick_viebey___orlando__ Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 I have a basic rule... Anytime I make an observation like yours "the price is very good (too good...", it's usually just not worth the potential aggrevation, especially buying over the internet where your all your options (including legal) get very limited. When spending 'significant' bucks, I buy from where I know (usually Adorama, BHPhoto, or Amazon), or local.... Interestingly enough, these 'scammers' have been with us forever - it used to be they were just in the back of magazines, but the internet has made it MUCH easier for them to reach out, as well as create new 'masking' identities. Sometimes I *carefully* buy other less expensive stuff from Ebay stores or other 'small' dealers - but do your research...first! There's a bunch of folks who are very ethical and sell out of their garage - but they're not likely to be 'certified' dealers for very expensive components (and certainly provide zero service)... pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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