| cameras buyers....beware! |
[Jun. 5th, 2008|08:49 pm]
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My family told me to choose what I wanted for my Birthday and they would buy it. I chose the Canon Rebel XSi. Went to Tall's Camera shop in the U-Village, asked them to match a price I had seen at Kits Cameras and they did. Only thing was that the only camera box they had in stock had obviously been dropped. Since I didn't want that one, they sent me to Northgate mall to get a new sealed never opened box. Do to paper work problems, I had to wait for over 20 min. to get my camera. Finally got the camera, went home and plugged in the battery to charge.
As I was fiddling through the contents of my box:
- "Huh!" I thought, "The camera has no plastic covering over the LCD and there are some finger prints as well"
- "Huh!" I thought again "The battery only took 15 min to fully charge!"
- I open the manual and note that it takes a full 2 hours to charge a new battery from empty to full.
- I turn on my brand new camera and think, "Huh!" the date is correct. and the time has been set as well!" o.O
- Now I know the box has been opened and the camera has been fiddled with, but I am still willing to believe that this is a new camera. Like when you buy a new car. It doesn't have zero miles on it. I may have a 100 or so.
- I take my first picture and the counter reads 100-6819
- "WHAT THE HELL!" I think. "O.K.....this camera is definitely going back! 6819 pictures already shot on my camera IS NOT NEW! I think some creep employee took this thing out for the weekend, and put it back in the box afterwards.
Luckily, with the support of my boyfriend, I take the camera back to the U-village and explain all my points and they give me a full refund, which was a huge relief, because I expected them to give me hassle about it. I think telling them that over 6,000 pictures taken in 4 hours was not really possible. I am wondering if this is some sign that I shouldn't buy a camera for the time being. |
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