I went down to Funan yesterday to buy LX5... first i came across TK Foto and its selling @ $639 c/w 8GB card, casing and screen protector... as the shop is full of pple, no chance to ask abt the cam and left the shop.... went to SLR-R and their price is $637 c/w 8GB card and casing... an uncle attended to me but after a few questions, the uncle called out a young chap to serve me... maybe the uncle felt tat i'm a housefly and just asked for fun w/o any intention to buy... i tried my luck and asked if they would throw in a screen protector for free... but the young chap said tat will cost $2... so basically, TK Foto price is the same as SLR-R vis-a-vis all items included.
As any paying customer will do, i asked to test the cam... but he said the shop dun allow testing... i was like "huh?"... i asked him if i dun test it, how i know if it is good or not... he replied tat normally pple go internet and see then the customers know which one they wan before they come to their shop already... :sweat: i also asked wat can i pay with... he said cash $637, nets add 1.2%, cc add 2. something percent... cant rem the exact percent...
i thx him and proceed to TK Foto and boy am i glad tat i went to this shop... the person who served me is very helpful... he allowed me to test the displayed cam and even showed me how to use some of the common useful functions... he used a small shoe box to show me tat the cam can still take good details in low light and also the marco function w/ and w/o AI... when i told him tat another shop i went dun allow testing... he said this cam is ok for testing, but not those DSLR which cost $1k+ and above as customer will be very particular tat they only wan to buy brand-new one and their shop wont have the budget to set aside displayed cam... tat sounds reasonable to me... his enthusiasm to sell and helpfulness really made the difference to me... and moreover, the shop allow u to pay in nets or cc w/o extra charge.. so i gladly paid for it with cc and bought another auto lens cover for $25. i also asked him to apply the screen protector for me and he gladly obliged...now i can proceed to buy gift wrapping papers and box it up to give to my wife as her bd present... :lovegrin:
btw, the guy's at TK Foto is Arkady, a young guy wearing specs... i feel good service should be promoted as he truly deserved it...