RedhillPhil

First part is my own stupid fault. Dropped my Camera (Lumix FZ-45) and it made a most unsatisfactory noise upon hitting the paving. Took it into a repair shop and had it repaired. Bloke there said to remove the battery, strap and memory card whilst it gets repaired. Got it back and discovered that items removed have been put in such a safe place that I can't find 'em even after metaphorically turning the house upside down. Ordered new battery from panasonic, went into local camera shop - JESSOPS - to buy a new memory card - circa £40! Got home to insert it and...original card still in camera. Took the card - still in it's unopened packaging plus the receipt back to JESSOPS to be told by youth behind the counter that, "we don't exchange or refund if the package has been opened". I pointed out that I hadn't opened it, it was still in the sealed plastic case inside the box.
"The box seal has been opened".
"Not by me mate, that's how it was when I bought it".
"We can't take it back".
So I left giving the door to JESSOPS a mighty slam on the way out.
I will never, ever go in any branch of that shop JESSOPS again.
Robbing barstewards.

vulcanised

You could have got those items from 7dayshop.com for considerably less, and they would probably have accepted a return.

Still, if you will go to poncy upmarket shops..............

Sallyann1234

I wouldn't call Jessops an upmarket shop, but you're right. You can get memory cards very much cheaper off the web, and with next day delivery.

pudoc

Typically, the more you pay for a camera memory card the better quality your pictures will be.

When companies act like that to me and I've exhausted all other methods, I usually threaten the small claim courts and they give me my money back. Worked numerous times.

hellsbrink

What the heck sort of memory card did you buy at that ridiculous price? that camera takes standard SD cards and you can buy a huge 32Gb one for around HALF the price you paid at Jessops!!


That place must have big windows, someone saw ya coming

Milo Minderbinder

??? I thought Jessops went bust and were closed down years ago.
I know several ex- employees including store managers who were made redundant when the chain closed. Must be six years ago at least.
Did someone reopen them?

mixture

You dropped a £200 camera ? Yah boo sucks.... almost cheaper to buy a new one than have it repaired !

On the other hand.....

I lent a Nikon D700 with Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 attached to someone recently.... it ended up having a sudden meeting with a concrete floor.

Now that IS an example of a combination where your statement "Angry? I could have torn a tissue." would be acceptable RedhillPhil.

(Cost me £440 in repairs for those who are curious, although no glass damage thankfully, just the ultrasonics inside the lens plus some cosmetics and some realignments on the body ! )

hellsbrink

Owned by Snap Equity Limited, which is made up by HSBC (47% share), the pension trustees (33%) and the rest by an employees trust. Seems that the refinancing deal with HSBC meant the new company, Snap Equity Limited, had all the group's trade transferred to it, the pensions were moved to Pension Protection fund and Jessops PLC was liquidated. This was in 2009, so the name lives on.

beeg0d

I don't know who told you that, your talking about storing digital data (1's and 0's) on a digital storage medium. The price/quality of the card wont/cant affect the Image quality. The data's either there or it isnt. Though the quality ma affect the lifespan of the card though. Its exactly the same as the fact that a £1.99 teknia (tesco) HDMI cable would give the same image/sound as a £80 Sony HDMI cable

pudoc

You might be right. I remember somebody telling me that there was a distinct advantage of better quality SD cards though. Maybe it's the processing time or how it transfers onto a computer. Probably find the answer on Google somewhere I guess.

G-CPTN

Secure Digital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

mixture

The more expensive cards have better gadgetry inside, and are generally quicker and more reliable.

However, on a cheapo £200 camera, you're unlikely to notice the difference, particularly if you spend most of your time taking holiday mugshots of your family.

Stick it on a Nikon pro body and go out doing some high-res continuous shooting at 11fps and you'll soon notice the difference between a cheap card and a good one.

Loose rivets

Moral of the story is, never lend a nice camera out with someone attached to the lens.



I set about repairing the Rivetess' Yashica sort of electronic 35mm. She'd dropped it 18" onto soft grass. Called the service department of Dixons or Currys - whatever, and was told it had to be serviced at c half the new price.

"Oh, but I'm an ex techie, can't you help?"
"No. Too dangerous. High voltages in there." (flash.)
"Oh, oh, but I worked on old PYE sets with a hard 9kv EHT. Please help."
"No, piss off." Well, words to that effect.

The battle was on.

Careful notes and a piece of paper with each screw poked through a diagram of the case. Lots of poking and prodding of the worst bit of lashed up circuitry I've ever seen. Found a ribbon cable with wires so thin they were barely visible.

"Please send me the ribbon cable - you know, techie to techie. Like in the old days."

"Ooooo...the ribbon cable?" he said, thoughtfully. "No, not sending one."

I said something . . . can't remember what, and hung up.

Put wires in that looked like powerstation cables by comparison. And it worked! Tested it again and got a hell of a belt from the flash circuit.

Then some bastard invented digital cameras.

mixture

Indeed, although in my defence, I had closely supervised their use of said camera on two prior occasions, and thus had no qualms about allowing unsupervised use.

Carry0nLuggage

Bro' Luggage repairs digital cameras for a living and he is very wary of the built in flashes. Even so, he still gets a jolt from time to time.

On the upside though, he tells me that quite a lot of people don't realise that their cameras have built in memory so that despite removing the memory card before despatch. Another good reason to RTFM if you like to take pictures of your fun and games