Simon C

As I said Pete, a decent range of bino's. You don't need IS in bino's, cameras yes, bino's no.

You ever wondered why swarovski, Lecia, Nikon, Opticron etc don't put IS in their models?

dpb

So he can find his particularly small ***** ?

tony de wonderful

You only buy binoculars for either bird watching or erm...another type of bird watching.

ChrisB

I got a camera lens from Jessops in Leeds. It was about £30 more in-store than on their website, so I went outside, reserved it on my phone, got the confirmation e-mail and walked back in to collect it. Crazy.

Leslie

What kind of pension do you get at the age of 40?

Les

markjmd

iTrader: (11)

They're not the only store who do this. I was shopping for a bathroom fitting in B&Q not that long ago, sale price on their website was £24.99, shelf-price in the same store where I ended up collecting from was more than double!

Geezer

Or try eBay.

From Hong Kong, but I have bought lenses for my DSLR from Hong Kong and has no issues.

Or try this

Geezer

pslewis

Once you have experienced IS in Bino's nothing else quite will do ...

I have no idea why those you mention do not put IS into their Binos ... maybe a few reasons:-

1. They don't have the Technology

2. Their audience is rather slow in the uptake of technology

3. They don't think there is a need

4. It will make their Binos too expensive

I suspect that it is 1. above .... they would have to buy the technology in.

Canon, on the other hand, have cracked the Technical aspects and are exploiting them.

Also, I'm not about to buy anything from Hong kong ..... not at that value!! How the hell do you return them is they are faulty? Nah ... savings aren't worth it IMO.

Geezer

Depends on who you buy from. DigitalRev have a UK operation to handle such things, but yes, it could turn out to be expensive to send them back.

Savings I had were a few hundred pounds though, which was worth it.

Geezer

GC8

Perhaps it was your winning personality? Youre like thrush!

pslewis

Like an itch you have to scratch?

Or always in interesting areas?

GC8

No Pedro, a really annoying tw*t!

Daryl

I've always got a good discount from Jessops - I just tell them how much I can get it for on the net and ask them to match it and they always have. Perhaps they just didn't like the cut of your jib...

pslewis

They said that £339 was the cheapest on the High Street .... so, they wouldn't knock £20 off!!

Looks like they don't need the business?

I may contact the boss man and tell him how the faceless manager, sat in a back office on their fat 4rse lost him a sale and a profit ............ I'm sure he would be most interested

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

You think a lot of yourself don't you .. Complaint will be met with basic sorry letter were no one cares and the manager will say some idiot came into the shop demanding I drop the price .. But that assuming any of this is real ..

pslewis

It depends how the letter is worded ..... I have a way with words.

Jessops cannot afford to let sales of £300+ Binoculars go unrealised ... that is the route to ruin!

2 in stock - 1 could be sold at a good profit - muppet manager decides they don't want to sell and don't want to move stock (these things are not top of everyones list of purchases .... not at the end of summer!).

I'm pretty sure the boss man would be VERY interested in how profits are being turned away.

Bubba po

Yes, Pete - if I were a high street retailer, I would like nothing better than to have some superannuated self-styled wideboy come into the shop and attempt to skank me so badly I couldn't afford to pay anything towards my ground rent/lease, heating bills, business insurance and employee's wages, let alone make any profit. You're a godsend to this country.

pslewis

Product = £340

Offer Price = £320

That's a discount of 5.8% ..... what is the Staff Discount? 20%?

So don't come the, "I can't afford to feed the family if I sell for less" bollox with me!

Bubba po

Buy it somewhere else off of the 'tinterweb, then. Unless you prefer to browbeat honest retailers and their employees for nothing more than your own warped sense of self-satisfaction.

pslewis

You did say that to sell at 5.8% discount would mean them going out of business .... you are wrong, as you know.

Which renders your last post as an equal load of crap ......

Bubba po

I bloody well did NOT, you lying toerag!

pslewis

Extract from above .....

I couldn't afford to pay anything towards my ground rent/lease, heating bills, business insurance and employee's wages, let alone make any profit.

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In my world, that's the real world, this situation would result in going out of business ... my statement still stands - and your statement is, as I said, rendered as utter bollox.

I'm sure your single operational brain cell can work the above out

Bubba po

As I also said, buy it off of the internet, unless you enjoy making people doing an honest day's work feel like ****.

pslewis

They would feel ABSOLUTELY GREAT had they sold a £320 pair of binoculars to some daft old fart who could have bought them cheaper on the internet - but is led by some silly, old fashioned, desire to help the local shop!

I'm going to try my hand at a smaller privately owned camera shop tomorrow ... I bet I come away with a deal.

The killer words are, "If we can agree a price, I am buying right now" ............ it usually gets them dribbling down their fronts

dpb

And doubtless theyll do their best to placate a complete and utter bloody timewaster





( Swearing under their breath , "TOSSER" )

Bubba po

I've won my moral victory - I shall now leave you to your shabby, weasely, niggardly thread.

zip106

Word of the day for me.

Like it!

Bubba po

Be careful where you use it, though. Some people aren't aware of dictionaries.

pslewis

THEYRE??

Is that even a word?

*** bac wen yu cin spil propr!