Cambridge World?

[KenR]

I'm looking in the Widelux f8 camera. At the moment there seems to be a lack of used cameras. Cambridge World has them for $1675.00 - new? Anyone dealt with them? They use paypal so there is some consumer protection - but I am rather reluctant to deal with a firm that I don't know. Perhaps I should just wait for some to appear on the used market.

[DWThomas]

I would tread carefully. I just looked them up on ResellerRatings.com.

[JLP]

Did you talk to someone from Cambridge World to make sure they actually have one? They list a lot that they don't have. Be careful if you order online.

[Terence]

Charlatans, pure and simple, especially when it comes to unusual or expensive items. They've always been that way, and presumably always will.

[David A. Goldfarb]

I've bought from Cambridge when I could walk into the store, see the item, and pay for it on the spot, because they do have a fairly deep stock of discontinued products new in the box. I don't know that they have a storefront anymore, but I wouldn't buy from them any other way.

[Mahler_one]

Did you talk to someone from Cambridge World to make sure they actually have one? They list a lot that they don't have. Be careful if you order online.

JLP is completely correct...be very, very careful.

[jeroldharter]

I bought my first zoom lens from them almost 30 years ago, a "Cambron" 80-210 if I recall. A complete piece of junk. You get what you pay for but I still felt ripped off. More recently I was looking for a foot switch for a Jobo timer which they had "in stock" so I bought it on the website but the transaction never occurred. I was never billed but I did not think it was worth the effort. I agree with David.

[Cainquixote]

they are satan's spawn. check out what the bbb has on file about them

[lxdude]

"Be ve-e-e-e-w-w-y caawweful."

E. Fudd

[fschifano]

Time for the way back machine... Years and years ago when I voraciously read every issue of Modern Photography and Popular Photography, Cambridge Camera would run multi-page ads with every issue. They were schlokmeisters then, and apparently they still are. One wonders how they stay in business with a reputation like that.