purchasing cameras on line

This is probably old hat to most of you but I have been attempting to buy a
new camera on line at a good price .I cannot afford the top of the line
stuff but I am looking at a panasonic lumix fz20

Several web sites giving prices at many retailers feature prices and who is
offering them but logging on to the sellers specific site and the price
suddenly increases by over $100 in some cases.

I called one retailer and I asked what was in the box apart from the camera
,one of the items was a year guarantee by Panasonic,I later that day ordered
the camera on line an effort to sell peripherals .Two days later I get an
email asking me to confirm the order, which in fact was an effort to get me
to order peripherals. One of which was a year guarantee ,I mentioned it came
with a year guarantee from the manufacturer, no so he said and asked where I
got that from ,I explained from the phone enquiry at which point he
explained all their cameras were gray market ones, at which point I
cancelled the order.

And so it goes another advertising on the web at $501, says the price was
put in before the "holiday"!!! and the revised price is $599.

Another advertises the camera for about $540 for the black body and $465 for
the silver body, same camera .

Seems about all these people originated in the middle east and still
practice middle eastern business ethics, in short you might say a bunch of
shysters ...mjh

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 02:59:44 GMT, "Mike Hide" <mikehide DeleteThis @comcast.net>
wrote:

Alot of your online dealers are like the auto repair shops... place an
order for one item and they try to sell new brakes and trans
checkups... Have dealt with several.. Butterfly Photo was the best,
but they called to offer other items too... I did purchase from them
at a reasonable price.