No problem, next time before you come to Hong Kong, please drop me a email.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "JUANITA M. ALMEDA" <litefoot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "OlympusWebring" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 10:32 PM
Subject: [OM] Price haggling? OM PC Sold for $ 300!
> Thanks Mr Ling for the comments. You may be right, the unpleasant
experience
> I have had has only been from the tourist camera shops on Nathan. Allow me
> to talk shortly about one experience:
>
> Talking of OM zuikaholicism... The only OM camera body I bought was an OM
40
> (PC) in 1997 from a shop called: Trust Camera and Video Supplies. For a
long
> time I had been eyeing the camera as it looked like old new stock. Oh, the
> perils of Zuikhoaholicsm...I was much less knowledgable then and was
> intriqued on seeing for the first time the "Program"mode. Hmmm I thought
> that the damn computer mode would make miracles in photography.!
>
> At that time I would visit HK a 2-3 times a year on business and found
> myself looking at that same camera for three times (a year then) before
> finally succumbing on April 29, 1997. Each time a looked at it I wondered
> why if the rest of the camera looked new, the bottom plate did have
> scratches. The ready answer of course was "its been held and touched too
> many times by many customers....
>
> That craft salesman must've by then smelled a gullible OM addict. To make
a
> long story short I walked away from the store paying USD 300.00!!! Now I
> realize what a fool I was... To think I could have an OM 4t for that
> money...
>
> Even then, another store was selling a new old stock OM 10 for about USD
> 200!
>
> Charge to experince as we would say...
>
> Next time Mr Ling you might help by suggesting what shops to go for camera
> stuff?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C.H.Ling <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sunday, January 07, 2001 9:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Price haggling
>
>
> >I think you might have got some bad experience, but I never, may be I
know
> >where to buy. Usually I will visit some shops to find out which gives the
> >best price before I buy, just ask and not buy is no problem. Try to avoid
> >the shops in tourist area (but no problem for large department stores).
> >Actually most of the people here are very friendly to foreign visitors
> >except mainly China visitors, may be they bargain too much.
> >
> >C.H.Ling
> >Hong Kong
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "JUANITA M. ALMEDA" <litefoot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 7:53 AM
> >Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Price haggling
> >
> >
> >> In HOng Kong,just asking the price and not buying gets them mad
> >sometimes...
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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