Digital BW, The Print

Epson RSA get most of their supplies from Epson UK [they're in some way
affiliated] , so you start off with UK prices and then it goes downhill from
there......
Bottom feeders  the lot of 'em.
Steve in JoBurg



and I thought paying 25% more in the UK than US was unreasonable.....
but 200% more is just mind boggling. Mike

2009/4/16 Chris Johnston <chris@...>

>
>
> So,
>
> I live in the middle of the back of beyond in a fly speck town at
> the edge of the Namib Desert. I have a ADSL connection and
> pretty near state of the art PC horse power with CS4, LR2, Nikon
> D3, Epson 2400, Bag full of lenses and a main street photography
> gallery, one of very few in Southern Africa. I decide I want to
> start printing my own large format images on canvas because I am
> unhappy with the architectural firm that uses a big Roland to
> print my work on canvas.
>
> So I go to B & H and Adorama neither will sell me an Epson 9900
> because Epson won't let them.
>
> So I contact Epson's reps in Namibia asking for a price, they
> don't even reply. I contact Epson South Africa and throw a
> @#$%fit, finally get to their South African Distributors who are
> happy to sell me an Epson 9900 for R130,000 + 15% tax, At today's
> exchange rate that's USD16,537.6. I can buy two little Daihatsu
> motor cars for that much money.
>
> Epson RSA talks some bovine fecal matter about pricing being
> dictated out of Dubai or the Netherlands, the end result is if I
> want one, I have to organize it out of Asia or the US and
> re-ship, and you know what I'll still save enough money to pay
> cash for a car..
>
> That's what I call a conspiracy and seriously FUBAR'D
>
> PS. HP is exactly the same..
>
> Christopher L. Johnston
>
> PO Box 354
>
> Omaruru Namibia
>
> chris@... <chris%40johnston.com.na>
>
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