How VERY annoying!
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 24 Apr 2006, at 11:23, jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> This is off topic other than its a slide scanner and I will scan
> olympus
> shoots with it.
> Anyway the story...
>
> I want a good quality scanner for both 35mm slides and medium
> format with
> the demise of the multi scan pro it looks like a Nikno coolscan
> 9000ed. In
> the uk the cheapest price I could find was a rather high 1800+
> pounds but
> they never seemed to have one in stock. The only places with stock
> where
> asking 2000 pounds+
>
> I took a look at KEH in the USA - 1800 dollars around 1100 pounds.
> Why the
> huge difference? I checked with customs in the uk there is NO duty
> charge
> because it is considerred a computer attachment....
>
> I try to buy one from KEH. KEH says that if they sell one to the uk
> Nikon!
> will stop supplying them any gear at all. Surely this is illegal?
> KEH say
> that they can ship it to a USA address and if that address ships it
> to me
> no problem but they can not send me one directly. GGGGRRRRRrrrr....
> Is this the distributor in the USA causing a problem or is Nikon
> deliberatly trying to rip off the uk and probably Europe to?
>
> I am now in hong kong again teaching. I try three camera shops in
> Stanley
> street (well known for its camera shops)... EXACTLY same price from
> each
> one - 1500 pounds (19000 HKD). But none in stock and the
> distributor has
> not got one because they don't sell enough to justify having one in
> stock...
==============================================
List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com
List nannies: olympusadmin@xxxxxxxxxx
==============================================
|