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[liralen]

After the movie John and I hit a camera store on a whim, deciding that it would be better to pay the full retail price and get my new digital camera before Christmas rather than wait until after and get it cheaper. It's been about five years since I bought my old, old Olympus, and I use it often enough that it was worth getting something I could put in my pocket.

The off-duty salesperson agreed to come off his break to sell something to us, and told us the last Canon A70 was the display model they had put up there for the last two days. It had a few finger smudges on the LCD display, but the brushed metal case had kept all other fingerprints well off it. Other than that it was raring to go, had an extra set of batteries for display, and the complete box kit under the counter. So we bought it.

That's when the other sales guy said, "Oh... I was supposed to put that on hold..."

And as we turned to go with the box another lady in the store suddenly gasped in surprise at something the other salesguy said and turned towards us, "You mean THEY bought..."

I guess we disappointed two other people with our quick decision capabilities. I'm very glad that I did my research early. And now there's a nicely wrapped package under the tree for me for tomorrow.

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

You are swift! You are mighty! Yay you!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Also mildly guilty feeling... but it is good to be decisive. I think...

*grin*

[flit.livejournal.com]

Yum! What a nice toy!

(And let me know what you think, hee.)

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

Hey, you taught a valuable lesson to a salesperson, and you did nothing underhanded. Feel a little sad for the people who lost it to bad luck, but don't feel guilty.

(Er, of course, that's not an *order*, of course... it's just a suggestion.)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

After a couple of days of using it, I have no regrets buying it, and a lot of really nice pictures. It's so easy to bring with me when taking Jet out, too. No case to wrestle, no lens cap to worry about, and the auto settings are all really, really nice and work really well.

I'm really liking it a lot!! But I do need a far bigger memory card than the one that came with the camera. Thank goodness for dpreview... as they review the memory card speeds. Or else I would have believed the salesguy about how Viking cards are worse than the brand name ones they sold.