"Emil Tiades" <emiltiades@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:05:08 GMT, "Derek"
> <del.wattsnospambaby@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Emil Tiades" <emiltiades@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>news:bdaqu3tabrctbdktetk5lkpfo1q7mmdbq4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:02:37 -0000, "ME&YOU" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>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
> <snip>
>
> In which case he purchases one locally [one of the options] and gets
> his money back on the faulty one when he returns home.
Or buys two, and returns the second later if it is not needed.
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