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- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!porthos!dasher!shc1
- From: shc1@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (culp,steven)
- Subject: Re: Need advice : what about Cambridge for e-mail order ?
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Distribution: rec
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 14:39:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.143918.11712@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- References: <MOREAUX.92Nov23143601@litsun22.epfl.ch>
- Sender: netnews@porthos.cc.bellcore.com (USENET System Software)
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- In article <MOREAUX.92Nov23143601@litsun22.epfl.ch> moreaux@litsun22.epfl.ch (Michel Moreaux) writes:
- >
- >I plan to buy a large format camera. I decided to deal with Cambridge for
- >the buying of the lenses. When reading this newsgroup, I have found a lot of
- >people having trouble with Cambridge. Is it really a pain in the ... to treat
- >with them ? Is there any valuable alternative ?
- >
-
- Michael,
-
- let me tell you my experience with Cambridge. Several months ago I ordered
- several thousand dollars of equipment from them. I was constantly lied to,
- they told me my equipment was in stock when it wasn't, later they told me it
- had been shipped when it hadn't (I asked them for the UPS shipper number and
- their computer suddenly went down; I found their computer went down at the
- most opportune times for them.)
-
- I also called to see if they had a particular lens in stock. Their computer
- went down. They told me to call back in an hour. An hour and a half later,
- their computer was still down. They told me to call back first thing in
- the morning. At 8:30 the next morning, I called back. They told me to
- call back after 9:00 (their compouter didn't come up until 9:00, supposedly).
- At 9:15 they told me to call back after 1:00. At 3:00 they told me to call
- back the next day. Two days later their computer was still down!
-
- I eventually did receive everything I ordered, but in my opinion, the amount
- of money I saved was definately NOT worth the hassle and frustration I had
- to go through. I cannot, NOT recommend these guys enough.
-
- Steve.
-