Google| Subject | Re: Colonial Photo & Hobby |
| From | nospam |
| Date | 04/17/2014 18:56 (04/17/2014 12:56) |
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| Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
| Follows | Tony Cooper |
In article <mbutk99v47d7m6e2g8j4532akl42el01bu@4ax.com>, Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com>wrote:
nobody said it doesn't vary store to store and the exact number of non-functional products does not matter anyway.nospamTony Cooper
i happened to be near a best buy today and had some time to spare so i stopped to check the cameras, phones and computers.
they had 6 nikon slrs, one of which (a d7100) had no lens which made it non-functional and all i could do was look at its menus. the same thing happened a few years ago with a d7000 (at a different best buy).
i didn't count how many canons there were, but the 60d didn't work properly. the 70d did, as did a rebel.
all of the slrs had a cable running out of the battery compartment, which eliminates one failure mode. however, the compacts did not and of the couple i tried, one had a dead battery.
the phones were mostly dummy models, although they did have a couple that did work. one of the imacs was not paired with its mouse so it was non-functional and one of the macbooks had its display set wrong.
overall, not a particularly good score.
All we know from this is that the results vary from store-to-store in the survey group. Neither result is projectable. That shouldn't surprise anyone.
just about every time i go to a best buy or other big box store, there are non-functional products. sometimes it's the ones i want to check out, which makes the trip mostly a waste, and other times it's other products but that just means that someone *else* is going to have a problem.
04/14/2014-
