Here’s a message off topic from Election Law but I can’t resist. My daughter wants to buy an SLR digital camera, the Nikon D60. I found it advertised for the lowest price at Broadway Photo. You can see the ad at this link. I tried to make the purchase on line, but I received an email that I needed to call to confirm the order.
When I called, the person on the other end of the phone suggested I get an extended battery for $169 as the battery for the D60 lasts for only 20 minutes. I told him my wife had the D40x, and the battery lasted considerably longer than that. I told him no on the battery, and I’d order it another time if we needed it. He kept pushing, trying to get me to buy the battery or an accessory pack. Then he tells me that perhaps I want to buy the “U.S. model.” I asked whether that meant this was not a U.S. model. He said that it was a model for China. He also then told me that the instructions were all in Chinese! I said that I no longer wanted the camera and that this was not clear from the description on the website. (Read it yourself.) He said it was clear and hung up, right after I told him I’d spread the word about the unfair practices of this store.
So deceptive.
UPDATE: Apparently I’m not the only one. See also here.