Posts for: lev29
Aug 24, 2020 10:19:37 #
Bridges wrote:
You know what, Bridges? Your suggestion is constructive and I confess I hadn’t thought of that. But I will keep it in mind. Although lev29 made a valuable point on price, a private e-mail simply stating what the going prices were currently would have been much more appropriate.
Aug 24, 2020 10:17:00 #
SteveG wrote:
So checking with B&H CURRENT LISTING is your basis for deciding that someone is unequivocally mistaken about when he thought he saw a lower price on some unspecified website within the past 1.5+ years since purchasing same brand-new, not refurbished? Is that the limit of your sophistication? You are also mistaken as to the privlce coming down. I checked B&H and it is still $998.
I am both amused and distressed that my first two posts have apparently ignited a stream of protests about someone "daring" to utter what he believes to be the truth.
For those of you, other than the OP, who participated in this "stream," particularly YOU, SteveG, all I can think of are two words: pathetic & hypocrites. (Just review this entire forum for examples.)
I’m not going to respond to further rants in this thread. But troll on, if you must.
As for the OP, if you truly wanted to just post your FREE ad, use a medium that forbids all but truly interested buyers from responding.
Aug 24, 2020 10:01:06 #
SteveG wrote:
Boy, Steve, you should have stuck with your descriptor "funny," instead of further expanding into outright attack mode. You have a funny way of offering advice. If you would have simply stated that the prices have come down and that I might want to reconsider the asking price, then I would have gladly said thank you. Instead you just said what you said, in the way you said it, along with the added bold print. Like I said, you have a funny way of offering advice.
Funny? How about reacting to what I was politely NOT explicitly writing, such as, "My God! Haven’t you bothered checking on current pricing? Or is it that you think you can fool someone into paying that much?"
You mean, Steve, you have NEVER found it irksome when you see a USED price out of line? Gee, that’s funny.
Aug 24, 2020 07:13:47 #
nervous2 wrote:
Why weigh in? To give you a clue about market conditions and to inform others that you appear to be pricing it too high. You should be thanking me.Why? Perhaps because someone else would like the camera at that price would be my thought. Apparently you are not a potential customer but why weigh in if not? Let others do their own homework and decide whether it's a good buy or not. No need to rain on anyone's parade. Just a suggestion. Just sayin'.
Jul 12, 2020 09:30:44 #
Rongnongno wrote:
Thank you for pointing out this latter advantage of DuckDuckGo and that other Internet Search Engine (ISE), www.dogpile.com, which was created in 1996. Yes. There is a caveat ... DDG uses google, yahoo and other search engines results (similar to dogpile).
The two advantages: No apparent tracking; Multiple sources for the research so 'paid top of pile' is rendered less ... urgent.
The two advantages: No apparent tracking; Multiple sources for the research so 'paid top of pile' is rendered less ... urgent.
Based on what I read at the beginning of this URL, https://file.org/guide/what-is-dogpile-and-how-do-i-use-it.html, DDG's type of search engine is referred to as a Metasearch Engine, as discussed here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine.
My only question for you, Rongnongno, is what caveat are you referring to?
Jul 11, 2020 18:28:13 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Yes, BUT you won't find objects of your searches there then paraded in other website ads, such as right here on UHH! If instead you employ Google, you can bet any stores, brands, or merchandise mentioned in results you click on will show up here ... and elsewhere.A search engine like google and bing
Jun 12, 2020 19:17:38 #
planepics wrote:
At least for the past half-decade, it’s Gary Friedman, hands-down! I'm getting a new (used) a99ii sometime tomorrow (FedEx just called to ensure someone will be here to sign for it). Other than my ancient Canon AE-1 Program 35mm film camera, this will be my first FF cam which is going to complement my a77...until I get an a77ii. Who writes the best manual for cameras - basics and secret hints?
I base this on my Friedman e-Books for the Sony a6000, Sony a7 (& its mk II supplement,) and the Sony A65/A77. My Busch books, on the other hand, are older and not camera model-specific. But I was originally so impressed by the latter’s books that I was going to purchase his guide on the a6000, but its release kept getting delayed ... and delayed ... and consequently fed up with these delays, I started looking around for alternatives. They consisted of a male author with a Japanese last name and Gary Friedman. I bought the latter and when I later came across Busch’s version, it didn’t even come close in overall content! That’s not to state that Friedman’s book was 100% error-free, though.
My subsequent survey of book reviews for the guides by these two authors for the same camera models also led me to the same conclusion: Friedman >> Busch.
Jun 12, 2020 15:20:19 #
rehess wrote:
Does this help? https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/gamma-correction.htm
I didn't have to sign in either, but then I registered with Cambridgeincolour.com over a year ago.
Jun 4, 2020 13:32:17 #
steve49 wrote:
... Disappointing. Ridiculous customer service from both companies.
Mac wrote:
Me, too!I don't understand your complaint about B&H. I have always been happy with B&H customer service.
Mac wrote:
steve49, How much time has lapsed since you sent the e-mail to B&H? With the current situation responses are taking longer than usual. ... How much time has lapsed since you purchased the tripod from B&H? ... It may be that the return time has passed.
In my extremely humble opinion, you may well have a legitimate "beef", but like Mac, I have to wonder if it’s premature.
My mother once recounted a common expression to me about life here on the home front during WW II: Don't you know there’s a war on?!
Yes, that could be used as a cop-out, but also quite legitimately. So I ask you, as I’ve had recent occasion to ask myself, could what Mac wrote, highlighted above, be true?
Are Social Isolation policies of varying degrees still in place and as a consequence, have not many employees in several industries been either furloughed or laid off?
On the other hand, consulting the Hog for help in clarifying what can still be done was probably a good idea.
Good luck!
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Jun 3, 2020 09:33:59 #
adamsg wrote:
Well, in the potentially hostile environment of this particular forum (unlike other photography forums,) where trolls, many of whom are anti-intellectual, roam free to attack, twist, distort, and ignore perfectly logical arguments (just like the current POTUS and many of his supporters,) sometimes it appears necessary not to give the dogmatic, unreasonable morons, who virtually never concede, 'the last word.' I am heartily sick and tired of this thread!! It has degenerated into a string of ad hominem attacks and has become a personal battle instead of a civil discussion of a worthwhile topic, the nature of artistic license versus artistic truthfulness. Can we move on?
On the other hand, some trolls thrive on such responses. I find goldstar46's novel approach of deliberately perseverating his rebuke to someone who refuses to understand his point(s) to be most refreshing!
May 23, 2020 17:20:51 #
MDI Mainer wrote:
On this erudite note, I am going to Hoover my carpets now; go make a Xerox, and open a box of Kleenex! Except that the vacuum is a Shark, the copier made by Sharp, and the tissues are the Target house brand.
May 23, 2020 14:59:01 #
gessman wrote:
gessman, Being a nick from Arkansas, it gives me great pain... (show quote)
Now, relax and have a good time. Covid-19 can't get you here.I commend you! Your contemptuous thoughts and conclusions are simultaneously hilarious, illogical, not entirely accurate, and laced with hypocrisy.
Go ahead and respond if you must. I don’t care. You can have the last word in this new subthread of yours. 😊
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May 23, 2020 09:43:23 #
ejones0310 wrote:
You are not butting in at all! Your comment confirms just how loosely some terms are used, at least in the U.S. Note that I did not intend to start a sub-thread here, but was merely pointing out the type of usage* that Bill 45, evidently, engaged in with respect to his title for this Topic. Pardon my butting in, but my grandmother used the term icebox for refrigerators as well. It’s like calling a soft drink a Coke. Some folks in my part of the world say they are going to have a Coke, when in reality they are drinking a Dr Pepper, Pepsi, et al.
* - Perhaps someone knows a concise name for this sort of term usage?
May 23, 2020 09:26:40 #
Naptown Gaijin wrote:
Thanks, but I do remember it. That was the entire point of my post: the use of a proprietary name, e.g. Frigidaire or eBay, in lieu of the generic term.You may be too young to remember but, Frigidaire was a brand name of a line of refrigerators, much like Nikon is a brand name of cameras. Frigidaire had a plant on the southern edge of Dayton, Ohio and thousands of employees. I remember it well from my youth, having grown up in the Dayton area. Was your grama from Ohio?
May 23, 2020 09:24:10 #
berchman wrote:
I mean absolutely no disrespect to your grandmother, berchman, but my decades-old understanding of an "icebox" is precisely what you describe. But an icebox is not a refrigerator. A refrigerator is powered and has a compressor. I assume that my grandmother understood this distinction and since she was born in 1888, I’m certain she was also familiar with an icebox. Are you certain your grandmother was using the term "icebox" to denote a refrigerator and not, in fact, an icebox? 😉 😎My grandmother called a refrigerator an "ice box." When I was a kid we would rent a cottage for the summer at Rockaway Beach (borough of Queens in NY). The kitchen had a refrigerator that required a block of ice be placed at the top to keep it cool. It *was* an ice box. The ice man would come each morning with ice on a horse drawn wagon. Am I really that old?