Took the leap *D800*

[kundalini]

Sounds like a good example to have your ducks in a row before purchasing. Regardless, congratz on the upcoming D800.

 

[Ballistics]

Sounds like a good example to have your ducks in a row before purchasing. Regardless, congratz on the upcoming D800.

Money in the bank = Ducks in a row. First time I've ever had an issue spending over $2500 on my card. Must be a recent implementation due to the recent breaches banks are experiencing.

 

[kundalini]

Yet, there were issues = ducks not in a row.

 

[Ballistics]

You mean issues =/= ducks not in a row.

If/Else logic is lame. Not taking the wind out of this sail.

It's such an unnecessary and passive aggressive comment lol.

 

[squirrels]

This is something out of a comedy. Maybe a sign haha.

So, the bank tells me that I need to fax them a letter stating the request. I tell them I don't have a fax machine,
so they tell me that I can scan and email the letter as well. Great!

I write the letter and scan it... the scanner breaks!!!! Worked fine a few days ago.
So after trying a few things to no avail... I say screw it and use my cell phone camera and email from my phone.
I call the bank back. I'm sorry we did not receive anything. Can you try again? Try again... nothing. So I decided to email myself
and then email them through gmail. It works! Great... After waiting 10 minutes on hold... the rep comes back and tells me that
I need to also add other information like my member number and why I need an increase, and and the last 4 of my card.

So I write all of that out. I pick up my phone to take a picture *Beep Beep* - "The battery is too low to use the flash".
So I bring it into the light in my bedroom and plug it in. I go to take a photo - the phone freezes! HAHA! Awesome.

I wait 30 seconds, and take the picture, and send it to my email. Nothing. No email received. I try again. No email received still. 3 minutes goes by,
and the rep asks if I would like to call back. I say Ok and sit. and wait. and nothing. after 10 minutes I give up and plug my phone into the computer,
get the image and email it. Call back. The rep left for the day that was helping me! LMAO! So now I had to explain the scenario to the new rep, and get put on hold for 10 minutes.
The rep comes back and says - Ok the limit has been increased, thank you for your patience. Oh if she only knew haha.

Oh man, I thought this story was going to end with you driving to Adorama with a suitcase full of cash fighting off highway robbers!

I hope your Tuesday arrives quickly!

 

[kundalini]

I believe you opened the door to your trials and tribulations of this purchase. Sometimes, silence is golden.

I did congratulate you on the inevitable purchase and was sent with sincerity. I was not being passive agressive, but you seem to stay on tack with the agressive. Enjoy your new camera.

 

[Ballistics]

This is something out of a comedy. Maybe a sign haha.

So, the bank tells me that I need to fax them a letter stating the request. I tell them I don't have a fax machine,
so they tell me that I can scan and email the letter as well. Great!

I write the letter and scan it... the scanner breaks!!!! Worked fine a few days ago.
So after trying a few things to no avail... I say screw it and use my cell phone camera and email from my phone.
I call the bank back. I'm sorry we did not receive anything. Can you try again? Try again... nothing. So I decided to email myself
and then email them through gmail. It works! Great... After waiting 10 minutes on hold... the rep comes back and tells me that
I need to also add other information like my member number and why I need an increase, and and the last 4 of my card.

So I write all of that out. I pick up my phone to take a picture *Beep Beep* - "The battery is too low to use the flash".
So I bring it into the light in my bedroom and plug it in. I go to take a photo - the phone freezes! HAHA! Awesome.

I wait 30 seconds, and take the picture, and send it to my email. Nothing. No email received. I try again. No email received still. 3 minutes goes by,
and the rep asks if I would like to call back. I say Ok and sit. and wait. and nothing. after 10 minutes I give up and plug my phone into the computer,
get the image and email it. Call back. The rep left for the day that was helping me! LMAO! So now I had to explain the scenario to the new rep, and get put on hold for 10 minutes.
The rep comes back and says - Ok the limit has been increased, thank you for your patience. Oh if she only knew haha.

Oh man, I thought this story was going to end with you driving to Adorama with a suitcase full of cash fighting off highway robbers!

I hope your Tuesday arrives quickly!

I'm actually debating if I should hop on the morning train and pick it up my self. Or just drive there.
40 minute drive or 2 hour train ride lol.

 

[squirrels]

Well, if you ride the train you can open it and play on the way home. On the other hand, a 40 minute drive is just a 40 minute drive. It's a tough call, but I'd have a hard time waiting at home for it!

 

[Ballistics]

Well, if you ride the train you can open it and play on the way home. On the other hand, a 40 minute drive is just a 40 minute drive. It's a tough call, but I'd have a hard time waiting at home for it!

Squirrels, you have yourself a very good point lol. I could start my million dollar career on the train ride home and be a millionaire by the time I reach my stop.

 

[shefjr]

I would make the drive.
It's only 40 minutes and you have it for the weekend or you wait for like 96 hours to have it delivered and only get to play with it after work.

 

[Ballistics]

I would make the drive.
It's only 40 minutes and you have it for the weekend or you wait for like 96 hours to have it delivered and only get to play with it after work.

No work for me lol. I'm actually a photo student and I'm off all next week. But either way I want it this weekend. I have a shoot on Sunday and I would like to use the D800 for it.

 

[Ballistics]

I believe you opened the door to your trials and tribulations of this purchase. Sometimes, silence is golden.

I did congratulate you on the inevitable purchase and was sent with sincerity. I was not being passive agressive, but you seem to stay on tack with the agressive. Enjoy your new camera.

The bank changed their rules. I didn't know. Coming in here to put me down and critique my lack of preparedness (lol, who knows how the hell you could be prepared for that at all) and then congratulate me is silly. Your comment was text book passive aggressive. Bottom line is, you just came in here to rain on a parade, albeit trying to mask it as a positive notion.

 

[lonerunner]

This is something out of a comedy. Maybe a sign haha.

So, the bank tells me that I need to fax them a letter stating the request. I tell them I don't have a fax machine,
so they tell me that I can scan and email the letter as well. Great!

I write the letter and scan it... the scanner breaks!!!! Worked fine a few days ago.
So after trying a few things to no avail... I say screw it and use my cell phone camera and email from my phone.
I call the bank back. I'm sorry we did not receive anything. Can you try again? Try again... nothing. So I decided to email myself
and then email them through gmail. It works! Great... After waiting 10 minutes on hold... the rep comes back and tells me that
I need to also add other information like my member number and why I need an increase, and and the last 4 of my card.

So I write all of that out. I pick up my phone to take a picture *Beep Beep* - "The battery is too low to use the flash".
So I bring it into the light in my bedroom and plug it in. I go to take a photo - the phone freezes! HAHA! Awesome.

I wait 30 seconds, and take the picture, and send it to my email. Nothing. No email received. I try again. No email received still. 3 minutes goes by,
and the rep asks if I would like to call back. I say Ok and sit. and wait. and nothing. after 10 minutes I give up and plug my phone into the computer,
get the image and email it. Call back. The rep left for the day that was helping me! LMAO! So now I had to explain the scenario to the new rep, and get put on hold for 10 minutes.
The rep comes back and says - Ok the limit has been increased, thank you for your patience. Oh if she only knew haha.

So, excited, I call Adorama back, tell them to process the payment and it goes through. Fantastic. I ask if they ship out immediately and the lady said yes, but unfortunately, the warehouse just
closed so it will be shipped on Monday. Haha oh goodness. Well, the good news is I'll have my Camera on Tuesday. The bad news is, my impatient ass I have to actually wait until Tuesday lmao.

Well after this i wouldn't worry about wife reaction congrats on getting top notch camera.

 

[ronlane]

I'd have to be telling them that I was looking for a new bank.

 

[shefjr]

I have a shoot on Sunday and I would like to use the D800 for it.

Sounds to me like you are gonna have a road trip tomorrow.
I wish I had a camera store that close to me.