Ritz Camera - Beware

[maxalmon]

What a total nightmare. Even the bizrate link on their website shows that 22% of their customers would never buy from them again. Almost every "rate this company" site has them listed with lots of CC issues. Google and you'll see
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Placed an order, they have issues processsing CC's and emailed me several times, I called my CC company and they said there was no problem, after 3 days of trying to get the order processed and getting nowhere, I called and cancelled the order, about an hour later I called my CC company and they had processed the order, THIS WAS AFTER I CANCELLED....Then I called and said "Hey" now that you've finally processed my CC can you please go ahead and ship the order......This is where it gets weird, the guy tells me, YOU CANCELLED THE ORDER SO WE WILL HAVE TO REFUND YOU...There was absolutley no way around this guy, there was no way they were going to ship the order. All he would say is, Sir, you cancelled the order, over and over.
Then I asked about when the refund would be applied to my card and I was told that it could take up to 2 billing cycles, I blew and became crazy at this point. 2 days of screaming and yelling, they had my CC locked up by billing it etc...Then I found out that the items were not in stock and would not have shipped anyway. Then I discovered that they have multiple post about them charging people and then taking forever to refund.
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Finally ended up order thru amazon and the camera and lens arrive tomorrow.
Beware of Ritz Camera..

 

[thirty5]

Max,
What did your order? I am going to be buying this week....

 

[05xrunner]

ritz is overpriced and well retarded..Especially in stores the workers there are about as knowledgeable of cameras as I am about nuclear physics.
Stick with BHPhotovideo.com
adorama.com
beachcamera.com
sigma4less.com
amazon.com

 

[maxalmon]

Oh yeah, get this, Ritz was going to sell me 2 Lens that would not work with the camera body I was purchasing. The lens would fit, you could take pics etc...but the autofocus would not work...This buying a camera thing is the pits, nothing but issue after issue.....
I agree about the ritz stores, I visited one yesterday thinking that I would just go to the store & buy the lens, but the guy tells me the company is BO for several weeks and thats when I found out that the lens they were going to sell me wouldn't work with the body...The guy was pretty low on the DNA scale, but atleast he helped me with the lens, even showed me in one of their books which lens were compatible with the 40x body and even said, "why did they sell you that, it won't work"........ARG...HUFF....SNORT.....(was going to get the 80, but way over kill for my skills, but now wish that I had gotten the 80 because there are more lens you buy)
Camera body arrive tomorrow D40X with basic 18-55lens
Ordered thru amazon a 18-200 AF-S VR & 55-200 AF-S VR

 

[chilwil84]

BHPhotovideo.com
i just got a sealife camera from them and i recieved it 3 days after i ordered it and they beat everybody by $50 and shipped it for less than $9

 

[thirty5]

Max,
Can i ask why you went with the Nikon. I think that is what the D40 is. Did you look at any other brands. I am looking closer at the Canon, it is smaller and i have access to a couple of lenses that will wok with it. I am going to use this on vacations and stuff too and i figured the smaller camera will work out for me a little better

 

[maxalmon]

I've talked with several people who own the D40x, all the reviews seem to state that it's and easy to use camera, entry level, but has a lot of features. What it really came down to is I've had regular nikon SLR camera in the past and and I still own several and they always worked flawless and took great pictures. From what I've read, the canons, nikons etc are all about the same and it boils down to brand preference, as all the technical stuff is, in one ear and out the other.