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This is a link post Anyone looking for cheap camera kit?
Jessops may be a good bet.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 19:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post Damn you internet. You're ruining the real world with your low, low prices.
=o(
 (Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 19:52, , Reply)
This is a normal post I buy all my camera gear from shops
sometimes online. Amazon isn't the cheapest option by far for expensive camera gear, and Jessops wasn't competitive by any measure. Their shops were generally badly stocked for my needs. So I would just shoot down to Burges Hill to a shop which does have everything I would want to take a look at, or buy from them online.

The internet was not at fault here
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 20:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm being a massive hypocrite.
I bought a refurbished Pentax through a third-party seller on Amazon Marketplace about a year ago. They threw in a second lens, a few lens hoods and a spare battery and it still cost 100 quid less than a new one.
I guess the fact that they had a shop somewhere goes a little way to smoothing over my conscience. I just think that most people only go to stores now to see what they like the look of, then go home and buy it online, even if it isn't much cheaper.
 (Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 21:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post Senn this earlier and thought EXACTLY the same thing.
Is it bad to have these thoughts about a dying business??
 (I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger (1 like), Wed 9 Jan 2013, 19:52, , Reply)
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When your high street is like mine with more charity shops than commercial big boys its not too bad a reality until the charity shops price a well worn shirt for £6.00 when you can get two from primarni for £7.00.
 (hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 20:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Primark uses sweatshops
Charity shop money helps the needy
 (I helped save b3ta! mookay immune to icons since, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 20:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm a big fan of charity shops
but I do wish they'd stop pricing things according to what similar items are listed as on ebay and go back to pricing them according to what some little old dear thinks they might be worth.

The PDSA wanted £6 for a Klaus Wunderlich album the other day, which is madness!
 (I helped save b3ta! LP, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 20:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post Went to an Oxfam Originals once, found it very confusing.
Most of the stuff was really old and cost more than similar in most shops brand new.

Really catering towards hipsters by the look of it.
 (I helped save b3ta! Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 20:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post Oxfam is particularly expensive.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 20:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post I haven't found the normal Oxfam to be particularly so.
Sometimes they have a few things in i like and sometimes they don't, matter of luck really.

Oxfam Originals on the other hand is ridiculous in what they charge for supposed 'classic' clothes.
 (I helped save b3ta! Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 21:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post You know Wunderlich, Kampfert, Mendes et al are now available to download?
...illegally from soulseek
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 20:53, , Reply)
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haha spent several hours listening to Bert on Christmas Day. One charity shop LP, one (legal) download.
 (I helped save b3ta! feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 22:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'd still rather buy the charity stuff
than have new things made unnecessarily in appalling working conditions.*

Still. I think they have become aware of what people will pay on, for instance, ebay. A lot of ebay stuff comes from charity shops. People go round looking for bargains to sell on. So I don't blame them for doing it.

*also the last time I went shopping for new clothes, it was all crap. Cheap and really poor quality.
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 20:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post I just bought a new camera earlier this week.
Checked Jessops and they didn't stock what i was after, thank God, i'd be pretty pissed now if they're going to drop the price of everything.
 (I helped save b3ta! Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 20:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post So loads more paedo-snuff pics will soon be on the web...*informs the nonce-squad*

(pissflaps. FSPW, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 20:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'll gaz you :-)

(I helped save b3ta! Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 20:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post They've already said they're not offering refunds nor honouring gift vouchers
I wouldn't hold out hope for much in the way of after-care
 (I helped save b3ta! TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 20:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post Aftercare may not be that big a problem
Certainly with the equipment I'd be looking at, all they'd do is send it to a Nikon Service Centre on your behalf.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 20:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post if you are tempted
make sure you do your research first.

About 6 months ago, I bought a new lens and I went in to Jessops. Not only were they more expensive than the internet price (unshocker) they were nearly £150 more than London Camera Exchange.

LCE were still £10 more than buying (new) online by the time I'd included postage, but they were able to give it to me there and then - so they got my business.

I'm willing to bet that if any local Jessops stores are selling off stock cheap (rather than shipping it all back to a warehouse and flogging it through their online operation) - they still won't be significantly cheaper than buying it elsewhere.
 (I helped save b3ta! LP, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 20:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post I've been doing plenty of research
(not all of it of the Pete Townshend variety before you ask), so I've got a good idea what a fair price is. I'm not short of other options either - Park Cameras is a five minute diversion from my daily commute.

I've bought kit from Jessops before, but only because they had it in stock at around market rate.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 21:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post Park Cameras is an awesome shop
One of the best stocked camera shops I have ever been to
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 21:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post I have something of a love/hate relationship with the place
I love going there but when I leave my wallet is either lightened or cowering in fear at some Very Expensive Plan.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 22:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post We had better bite the bullet and get on a plane to New York
and experience B&H then :)
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 22:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post I went to B&H on a work trip to pick up a load of gear
It is a truly horrible experience. Really, really fucking horrible.
 (I helped save b3ta! mookay immune to icons since, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 22:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post They succeed where Jessops failed though
The last Jessops I went to just came across as a shop full of point and shoot muppet cameras with the occasional entry level DSLR, and not a lot more, other than cheap, wobbly tripods you'll hate the moment you spent thirty quid ever buying. It shocked me more Jabbobs died first
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 23:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post B&H are great online
I would never go back to the shop. Trust me, it's a nightmare. They have a very strange production-line ethic to the way they run the shop. It is busy beyond your wildest dreams, the staff are unhelpful (or too busy), the layout is insane and the queues are profound. Also, I needed to go back to exhange on tiny bit of a fortune's worth of equipment we had bought, and it was extremely difficult to find anyone willing to help. On the plus side, they have a LOT of stuff.
 (I helped save b3ta! mookay immune to icons since, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 0:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sorry for all my dramatic adjectives.
I probably would go back if I needed something specialist. But I wouldn't go in to browse.
 (I helped save b3ta! mookay immune to icons since, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 0:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post A beauty isn't it?

CFB^
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 0:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post That 400 in camo is wonderful

(I helped save b3ta! mookay immune to icons since, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 5:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post Fly to New York to buy a lens?
Only if the exchange rates start to favour it again.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 23:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post Their twice yearly catalogues are mental enough
laughingsquid.com/google-street-view-tour-inside-bh-photo-video-in-new-york-city/
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 23:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post Slightly off topic, but...
I had my camera stolen in Berlin last July (worth 2k). The police took a report saying it would be, obviously, very unlikley I'd get it back. To cut a tl;dr story short, my company managed to track the my colleagues laptop (also stolen) to an address in Germany and the cops busted the house. My camera arrived via courier today, in perfect nick. Big up the Polizei.
 (I helped save b3ta! mookay immune to icons since, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 22:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post Nice!

(Fluffster, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 22:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post Wunderbar!

(I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 22:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yay!

(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 23:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post Nice one
For future reference though, how was it stolen? Just because mine's a bit pricey and I'm fucking paranoid about this sort of thing.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 23:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post I was filming at a private music event in a fancy club...
At the end of the night, when nearly everyone had left, I went to the van to get all the flight boxes and when I got back my camera had disappeared. It's very rare that I leave anything unattended, but I had a false sense of security. They must have just grabbed the tripod and sauntered out. My specialist insurance refused to pay up because there was no forced entry. Furthermore, the twats refused to cancel my (expensive) policy even though I no longer had any equipment. On the plus side my company helped out by paying me overtime to cover it, plus I have my camera back now.
 (I helped save b3ta! mookay immune to icons since, Wed 9 Jan 2013, 23:41, , Reply)