B&H Photo Experience?

[dewey]

I've always had a good expereince with B&H... and Adorama isn't owned by B&H or vise versa is it?

 

[usayit]

Same here... I trust B&H as well as Adorama. As far as I know.... Adorama and B&H are competitors and not owned by the same organization.

 

[RMThompson]

UHOH

It's Monday, and Adorama/B&H is closed... and my order is listed as "packed".

The promise of shipping today better come through, or I will be very disapointed. I have an email from a sales rep PROMISING it would ship today.

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[JD in Socal]

UHOH

It's Monday, and Adorama/B&H is closed...
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Adorama is closed and their competitor, B&H, is also closed.

If my office and the office across the street are both closed on Sunday, it doesn't mean that we are the same company.

JD

 

[Dragoness]

well b&h is closed for passover and easter, not sure about adorama though

 

[dewey]

Being that they are both owned and operated by primarily Orthodox Jews, I beleive this is the Holiday reasoning. They are not owned by the same people.

 

[newrmdmike]

new york has a lot of jewish people . . . so i'm sure both adorama and bh have both jewish and non - jewish ppl working for them.

i no longer do business with adorama, and the guy i talked to there had the name goldstein.

anyways, i've never had a bad experience with bh, but if you do you must also realize that your dealing witha huge corporation. i've been told they are now bigger than nikon.

 

[xfloggingkylex]

sigma4less.com is also closed during this time. Sucks that all the camera companies are Jewish because I really wanted to order a lens

As for my one experience with B&H, it was outstanding. I ordered a spare battery and 2 step up rings on tuesday at 12:30, and it was at my door wednesday afternoon. Mind you I live in MD and B&H is in NY, still east coast but I would say that 1 day is insanely fast even if I lived in state.

The things I bought from adorama took a bit longer to get to my door.

I'll be ordering a rocket blower and probably a reflector from B&H when they reopen after easter.

 

[Jeff Canes]

B&H closes for all the Jewish holidays and they always post their holiday schedule. So remember check it.
Also I have never had a probable with ether store

 

[RMThompson]

Adorama came through:

Type: Package Status: In Transit - On Time
Scheduled Delivery: 04/05/2007
Shipped to: FL, US
Shipped or Billed on: 04/02/2007
Service Type:
GROUND Weight: 4.60 Lbs

 

[Dragoness]

Yay for you! Nine is due to arrive on Wed, cross your fingers!

 

[reshp1]

I ordered a lense from them and literally snuck it in before their stated holiday cutoff and they shipped it as promised. I've ordered non-photo stuff from them before and they've always been good.

If I didn't misunderstand you, they got a new camera out to you 3 days after they got your return. While not lightning fast, that's not really unreasonable with all the last minute orders people were placing before they closed for a week.

Anyway, glad it sorta worked itself out for you and better luck with the new camera! (I have the K110D, it's a great camera for the price).

 

[DurangoSheryl]

Hi All. I am very new to the field. I have just been using a lot of photography in my marketing work and decided to upgrade my equipment so I can get better interviews with the H4N, a continuous external light, the IKAN 144, along with a new D800 in order to post to websites and Youtube. I got the D800 so I can also work into wedding landscape/portrait photography and keep my expenses down on lenses due to the tremendous opportunity to zoom into the part of the photo that I want to use and discard the rest.

Anyway, with that said, I know that I am a complete newby and I wondered if it is normal practice for B&H PhotoVideo to discard the boxes before shipping. I only received a box around the D800. The H4N and IKAN didn't have boxes. When I asked B&H about this, they said I didn't need the boxes because I already have the serial # on the packing slip. If I need to sell them, it would be good to have the boxes. They responded by telling me that I needed to contact the manufacturer.

Is this common practice and does it matter that I have the boxes? Any input is greatly appreciated.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

BHPHOTO <---one of the finer things in life

 

[TCampbell]

Uh oh... zombie thread alert!

This thread is from 2007.