octopushead
New Member
I had this bad experience at Funan IT - level 2 at this shop call " Bally Electronics Pte Lte
When I walked in the shop with intention just want to ask the price of a Sony Wide angle lens. A white hair uncle attended to me and introduced to me a Germany Made, Steinzeiser 0.5X wide angle converter and explained to me that this kind of converter more worth it than buying a wide angle lens because this converter can simply give you a wide angle shoot with much lower price than wide angle lens.
He explained to me how this wide angle converter works and let me tried out myself with few test shoot...not knowing of the market price for this kind of wide angle converter, eventually I bought it at SGD600+, simply thinking that Im able to save a lot than buying a wide angle lens.
On that night, I search on website and found out this kind of wide angle converter are just at price around $50 - $100!!!.... That Bally Electronics simply a chop head shop!!!
On the next day, I went back to Funan IT and asked few shop around on this Steinzeiser 0.5X wide angle converter to conform the market price. It is really only sale at about SGD50. Some shop even told me that this Steinzeiser brand is not Germany made and is the lousiest brand!!!
I went back to this Bally Electronic and confront with the salesman to request for full refund. The salesman did not argue too much on this fraud but refuse to refund, only agreed to let me replace with other product. Finally I settle this dispute with him by replaced with another Sony 50mm F1.4 lens.
Lesson to learn on this incident is that dont ever trust any salesman especially on camera accessories like Filter, CPL, converter etc. these are the stuff that salesman always tried to cheat the newbie. And the quality of this kind of accessories hard to evaluate as there are too many brand in the market. Any thing that not sure about price simply turn the salesman down until you had check out the market price.
I share this experience is to alert any newbie from cheating by those chop head shop.
When I walked in the shop with intention just want to ask the price of a Sony Wide angle lens. A white hair uncle attended to me and introduced to me a Germany Made, Steinzeiser 0.5X wide angle converter and explained to me that this kind of converter more worth it than buying a wide angle lens because this converter can simply give you a wide angle shoot with much lower price than wide angle lens.
He explained to me how this wide angle converter works and let me tried out myself with few test shoot...not knowing of the market price for this kind of wide angle converter, eventually I bought it at SGD600+, simply thinking that Im able to save a lot than buying a wide angle lens.
On that night, I search on website and found out this kind of wide angle converter are just at price around $50 - $100!!!.... That Bally Electronics simply a chop head shop!!!
On the next day, I went back to Funan IT and asked few shop around on this Steinzeiser 0.5X wide angle converter to conform the market price. It is really only sale at about SGD50. Some shop even told me that this Steinzeiser brand is not Germany made and is the lousiest brand!!!
I went back to this Bally Electronic and confront with the salesman to request for full refund. The salesman did not argue too much on this fraud but refuse to refund, only agreed to let me replace with other product. Finally I settle this dispute with him by replaced with another Sony 50mm F1.4 lens.
Lesson to learn on this incident is that dont ever trust any salesman especially on camera accessories like Filter, CPL, converter etc. these are the stuff that salesman always tried to cheat the newbie. And the quality of this kind of accessories hard to evaluate as there are too many brand in the market. Any thing that not sure about price simply turn the salesman down until you had check out the market price.
I share this experience is to alert any newbie from cheating by those chop head shop.
