Guys,
when I recently wanted to buy a Canon 400D, like most people I just 'googled' the name and up came all the various prices from online shops and the likes.
I hadn't understood at this stage how there could be such a price range (from $985 to $1495 for the same product !) until I did a bit of digging and came up with what most of you guys will already know. That is, that the cheaper ones are selling stock from Hong Kong etc rather than "Australian" designated stock. It is genuinely all the same product from Canon, and so I decided to take advantage of the cheaper price and save about $500.
I read all the supposed reviews from this online store, and naturally they all came up trumps. Well they would wouldn't they - they wrote them !
Anyway, the item turned up in absolute record time with emails confirming where the item was at every step virtually until the van was at my door.. Terrific service I thought.
The product was perfectly ok in every way, and I have no complaints....
Except that I did just have a couple of simple questions for the store. I've tried emailing many times, and can I get an answer from them? - not likely.
So there you go, you take a risk when buying outside the square, and you have to offset the saving against this lesser quality service. You get what you pay for I guess
Cheers,