Re: B&H puts another local camera store out of business (with my help, unfortunately)

"Rita Ä Berkowitz" <ritaberk2O04 @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Oliver Costich wrote:
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>> The real culprit in the demise of the local photo store is Ritz in its
>> various guises. In south Florida, where there millions of people,
>> there are about 4 real photo stores and all are more than 25 miles
>> away (far north or south), if you exclude the Ritz/Wolf ones.
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> Not really.  It's all about the bottom line.  If a store on the internet

> or
> local has the best price on items I want they get my money.  It's very 
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> for local (in state) stores to compete with on-line merchants since the 
> fact
> that one can order on-line and not pay any sales tax.   In most cases,
the
> savings alone from this is the dealmaker.  And my local store is great, 
> but
> they usually don't have the items I want when I want them.  Of course, 
> they
> could order them, but why when I could do the same and have the item 
> sitting
> in my hands the next business day?  Local shops are a thing of the past.
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> Rita
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But that has become less of a bonus as the cost for ****pping has gone up.
I 
sent a package two days before the postal rate increase and with $1600 in 
insurance priority mail with delivery confirmation it cost less than $10. 
After the post rate increase it cost me $24.45. It used to be that you
were 
correct Tax would generally cost more than ****pping. Now that is not
always 
the case.

That and I do feel that local stores think they can get away with charging

suggested retail even though they can't. A lot of it comes down to greed. 
They want every cent they can get and feel that they are going to be that 
one in a million that can pull it off. Add to that that places like Target

or Wal-Mart offer many of the more popular cameras at less than retail and

that adds a problem as well.

As for Ritz I don't know how they stay in business. They people are stupid

and their prices are high and they keep pu****ng the extended warranties. 
They are in many ways like CompUSA which is another store I don't know how

it stays in business.

=(8)