42Photo.com Have any of you had experience with this site? Im thinking about buying a d500 camera. its about $200 cheaper on 42 street photo, but I have never bought from them...

xxredbeardxx Loc: San Clemente CA.

Im thinking about buying a d500 camera.
its about $200 cheaper on 42 street photo, but I have
never bought from them before.
if any of you have had good or bad experiences with them,
please let me know.

Thanks, Mark

Bill_de Loc: US

In the three + years you've been here you must have passed at least a couple of dozen threads on the topic.

In short stay away from them. Beyond that, search the topic.

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erinjay64

I have not dealt with them, but did check out several ads of theirs. In the "what is included" part they list vague batteries, and cables, but give no real ID. That leads me to suspect that they are selling grey market items which they strip the accessories from, and replace the brand name batteries, chargers, etc, with cheap off name brand items. That is bad because the off name stuff is generally of lower quality, and often won't work at all with some cameras. That means that you have to buy brand name items to replace the off brand stuff. I know that other sellers do such things, and the vague ads make it seem that 42nd St does such as well. I won't chanced it.

Winslowe

xxredbeardxx wrote:

Im thinking about buying a d500 camera.
its about $200 cheaper on 42 street photo, but I have
never bought from them before.
if any of you have had good or bad experiences with them,
please let me know.

Thanks, Mark

Maybe contact UHH member Dan De Lion, who has praised them highly.

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

They are known for offering "grey market" items which are not waranteed by the manufacturer. Bait and switch.

BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Have a look here: http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/search-topic-list?q=42nd+street&sectnum=0&username=
Good to see you post again, it's been a while.

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

xxredbeardxx wrote:

Im thinking about buying a d500 camera.
its about $200 cheaper on 42 street photo, but I have
never bought from them before.
if any of you have had good or bad experiences with them,
please let me know.

Thanks, Mark

Use the search function at the top of the page.

xxredbeardxx Loc: San Clemente CA.

Bill_de wrote:

In the three + years you've been here you must have passed at least a couple of dozen threads on the topic.

In short stay away from them. Beyond that, search the topic.

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I actually searched 42photo and found nothing.
Thats why I asked the question, and no I have never heard them mentioned before in my 3 plus years here.
Thanks for the advise. I usually use B&H and have very good experiences with them, but $200 is $200
so I thought I ask the members.

xxredbeardxx Loc: San Clemente CA.

erinjay64 wrote:

I have not dealt with them, but did check out seve... (show quote)

Thanks very much.

xxredbeardxx Loc: San Clemente CA.

PHRubin wrote:

They are known for offering "grey market" items which are not waranteed by the manufacturer. Bait and switch.

Thanks. Guess I need to save a little longer and continue with B&H.

xxredbeardxx Loc: San Clemente CA.

BassmanBruce wrote:

Have a look here: http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/search-topic-list?q=42nd+street&sectnum=0&username=
Good to see you post again, it's been a while.

Thanks very much Bruce.
Yes, I love this site, but life has gotten in the way.
Hopefully I will have more time soon.

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

xxredbeardxx wrote:

I actually searched 42photo and found nothing.
Thats why I asked the question, and no I have never heard them mentioned before in my 3 plus years here.
Thanks for the advise. I usually use B&H and have very good experiences with them, but $200 is $200
so I thought I ask the members.

I just used the search function for 42nd St. Photo and there are a number of posts about it.

xxredbeardxx Loc: San Clemente CA.

Mac wrote:

I just used the search function for 42nd St. Photo and there are a number of posts about it.

yes, thanks.
I searched with 42photo.com and got nothing.
I should have used the 42nd. street logo and gotten better results.

Bill_de Loc: US

xxredbeardxx wrote:

I actually searched 42photo and found nothing.
Thats why I asked the question, and no I have never heard them mentioned before in my 3 plus years here.
Thanks for the advise. I usually use B&H and have very good experiences with them, but $200 is $200
so I thought I ask the members.

The search engine can be finicky.

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

xxredbeardxx wrote:

Thanks. Guess I need to save a little longer and continue with B&H.