On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:05:08 GMT, "Derek"
<del.wattsnospambaby@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>"Emil Tiades" <emiltiades@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:02:37 -0000, "ME&YOU" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> wrote:
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>>>I want to get a waterproof digital camera to take during some light
>>>diving.
>>>Maybe the Olympus Mju 790SW or the Pentax Optio W30.
>>>We go on Monday so I don't have time to get it anywhere online so does
>>>anyone know which is likely to be cheapest - Manchester Air****t,
Frankfurt
>>>air****t or in a camera shop in south Africa (Cape Town)?
>>>Thanks
>>
>> Before worrying about saving a fiver, consider "what if it breaks
>> later"
>> You can always post it back to the South African shop and pray the
>> saint patron of clueless shoppers...
>> Personally, tomorrow I would go to a camera shop/store not far from
>> where I live, but I am not you.
>
>Makes sense unless ......you buy a camera at home to go on the trip of a
>lifetime on the other side of the world where the camera fails.Electronic
>equipment failure mainly occurs very early in owner****p (or two days
after
>the warranty expires) .Leaving you in the hands of the patron saint of
>clueless shoppers as you are nowhere close to the home dealer and royally
>stuffed
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In which case he purchases one locally [one of the options] and gets
his money back on the faulty one when he returns home.
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