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Originally posted by shadyscribe67

I've been searching for the best price for the XL2 and only getting rude sales reps. Is this old news or are all these sales people complete assholes? Either they hang up on you or treat you like shit. what's the deal. all I want is the best price for a very expensive cam. Even their prices are lies. ROYAL CAMERA is one example. dont deal with this company. If anyone knows a company with great prices, please let me know...

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I know what you mean I called ROYAL CAMERA and I could not believe the way I was treated, you might try these guys the price is good on some of there camera's but on others I see that the price just went up a little.
http://www.digitalliquidators.com/default. http://www.amphotoworld.com/product.asp?id=cnxl2

I hope this help's

I wanna thank ROLWHITE for the helpful hint about the XL2. The best price I found was A&M Photo World.com - $2,259.00 Now that's a great price considering the cam your getting. And most of all they were'nt rude assholes like ROYAL CAMERA. Thanks again for the advise!

I don't know where you guys dug up this A&M camera place, but their prices are amazing! Thanks to this I'm probably going to get my camera months before I thought I would. Woot!

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Originally posted by shadyscribe67

I wanna thank ROLWHITE for the helpful hint about the XL2. The best price I found was A&M Photo World.com - $2,259.00 Now that's a great price considering the cam your getting. And most of all they were'nt rude assholes like ROYAL CAMERA. Thanks again for the advise!

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I am gald I could help the people on this site have help me in the past I am happy that I could do the same for some one, and yes Royal Camera people are assholes.

Note that you should always be careful with camera deals that seem too good to be true. I don't know any of the companies listed here, but some disreputable dealers have been known to sell you the camera alone without the accessories that normally come with it (e.g. battery charger, without which the camera is useless), or to quote the price for the camera alone and then charge you a huge markup on those accessories so you end up paying more than you would have to buy from another dealer.

So wherever you buy from, make sure you're getting everything that you should be getting, and compare prices between identical packages.

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Originally posted by MarkG

Note that you should always be careful with camera deals that seem too good to be true. I don't know any of the companies listed here, but some disreputable dealers have been known to sell you the camera alone without the accessories that normally come with it (e.g. battery charger, without which the camera is useless), or to quote the price for the camera alone and then charge you a huge markup on those accessories so you end up paying more than you would have to buy from another dealer.

So wherever you buy from, make sure you're getting everything that you should be getting, and compare prices between identical packages.

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Looks like he's right, folks. Check it out:

http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1988.html

A disappointment to be sure, but good to know nonetheless. Thanks MarkG. Now, who wants to donate $200 to help me get that PV-GS200 before school lets out?

Hi,
I have a question related to all of this. I don't know much about buying cameras, so forgive my ignorance.

I was looking at places for a Canon XL1S and I stumbled upon Amazon. One person was selling it for $800 brand new in the box and with all accessories. Now this obviously is too good to be true, but what I'm wordering is what could be bad about it? Seeing that Amazon has the "safe buying guarantee", how could they cheat you? I've never used Amazon before though, so I'm not sure of how that works.

Thanks

yeah.. websites like amazon are pretty trustable, i've used them many times before.

has anyone checked prices on eBay if there are any? there aren't as many scammers on these sites as one may assume..

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I was looking at places for a Canon XL1S and I stumbled upon Amazon. One person was selling it for $800 brand new in the box and with all accessories. Now this obviously is too good to be true, but what I'm wordering is what could be bad about it? Seeing that Amazon has the "safe buying guarantee", how could they cheat you? I've never used Amazon before though, so I'm not sure of how that works.

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With the release of the XL2, it was inevitable that the bottom would drop out of the price of the XL1s, however $800 does seem a little cheap to me. I would have thought most people would be looking to shift these for $1000 - $1500, but you never know.

I'm not 100% sure, but would assume that Amazon will cover you against fraudulent transactions through their marketplace sellers, so it might be ok. You could always email the seller and ask them why it's so cheap.

Ben C.

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i was looking for a still camera and another messageboard had nothing but bad things to say about a & m.

look into ebay, at least you get a solid rating.

www.maketradefair.com
www.thehungersite.com
www.oxfam.ca

OK, I had said before that A&M was great and so on. Well, I take back everthing I said. The XL2 at A&M really goes for $4000.00 not the low price they have listed. I did call and the low price listed is for ONLY the XL2 body. no battery, no lens, no nothing! I guess this is what being green means and now my film career takes a backseat while I pimp my wife for the XL2. DAMN!

i found 1 for ?1 but no one will give me advise on wether to buy it

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Originally posted by thrain

Hi,
I have a question related to all of this. I don't know much about buying cameras, so forgive my ignorance.

I was looking at places for a Canon XL1S and I stumbled upon Amazon. One person was selling it for $800 brand new in the box and with all accessories. Now this obviously is too good to be true, but what I'm wordering is what could be bad about it? Seeing that Amazon has the "safe buying guarantee", how could they cheat you? I've never used Amazon before though, so I'm not sure of how that works.

Thanks

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Amazon is relaible I just bought my Canon Xl1s for 500$ of course i had to ship the money through Western Union which cost 43$, because i sent it to spain. The guy had ups send me an email verifying that they had the product ready to ship, then I gave him the mtcn and he told ups to ship it out It should arrive sometime next week I'll ket you know how it turns out.

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