Here is my story about thedigitalnerds:
After placing my online order, I received a call from one of the sales guys, and things sure got interesting from there. He started out by schmoozing with me about how great of a camera this was, and asked if it was a gift. I said it was a gift for my wife, and he went on to say that "boy will your wife ever love you for this". This is when the red flags started going off in my mind about this company. The gentleman asked if I needed an SD card (fair question). I said I already had one. He then turned his attention to a backup battery, because, according to him, the battery that the camera ships with is only good "for about 20 minutes". What a fricken crock of balony! I stated that I wanted to do my own research on the matter. But, he pressed on. He said I could get a backup battery for either $50 or a super duper backup battery for $120. I politely declined, which is when he said "I'll tell you what, I'll offer you the low low price of $79.99 for the super duper battery." More red flags. When I declined this he said he's lower to $69.99 for the super duper and toss in a free camera case. I declined again. Then he told me something that surprised the hell out of me: he said that the camera I bought was a chinese version, with chinese manual and chinese menus. I fell for this, and thought, for a brief moment, that I had overlooked some fine print when I bought the camera. We bickered a bit (he actually said to me "are you going to let me talk, will you stop talking and let me talk?" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. So, when he offered the US version of the camera plus the super duper battery plus the case for $269.99 total, I said "well, ok." That's when he hit me with the last sucker punch of the day. He said "Ok, with shipping and handling, the total will be $289.99. I just about dropped dead, because, you see, the original price of $203 INCLUDED shipping. I knew, without a doubt, that I was dealing with some crooked, sly, backhanded, bait-and-switch organization.
Later that day, I relaized how easy it would be to switch a camera's language from english to chinese, and sell it this way to someone, in an attempt to try to convince them to order the "US" version. I'm willing to bet this is all a scam. The camera's most likely support both languages. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe not. Even if I am wrong, its sick and wrong to try to pawn off a chinese piece of trash to american consumers, then try to upsell once your on the phone.
Grrr. These guys need to go down.
