The story of the most unluckiest purchase i ever did
The Camera is
Canon PowerShot A710 IS
I went looking in the local market .. i didn't find it and Canon Center told me that he can get it for me for 3800 LEs and its made in China (the Camera's price at this time costs 299$ - Made in Japan - at the most expensive e-commerce site on the net) .. thats 664$ i could have bought a SLR with this $s :D .. thanks for the Distributors in Egypt .. really they are ripping people wallets for nothing .. So i have to get it from the US.
- Asked CEO to buy it for me when he was in the US , and he was stuffed at his return and didn't make it
- After his return i asked him to buy it from the internet using his credit card , and after deciding the best site for (price vs reputation) he ordered it, then after 3 days and an e-mail came from the site telling him that they cant process his orders because they have bad experience dealing with Egypt Banks (you can imagine now how much i love my country :D ) , so the order has failed :(
- I didn't give up .. i kept asking all my friends here and their (and by the way i hate asking people for favors) .. no hope .. till i found a friend told me OK ... he was going for a work-travel conference in the US, and their he bought a Laptop and a Camera . .for him self .. and told me that he can't get 2 Cameras because he will pay high taxes at our lovely airport .. so it failed too :(.
- Come-on Man .. don't lose the spirit, Keep looking , i kept looking and looking .. till i found my manager going to the US for his daughter birth , i told him "You are my hero now .. please do this favor for me .." , he accepted the quest and went there .. and now look at wat happened :) ..
- The weather was hell snowing (blizzards) so he could go out for the most of the time
- At the last 5 days the weather got better , he made the order and we were all happy .. BUT .. the order was canceled because the address in the credit card wasn't the address on the streets (conflicts).
- I told him to look for other e-store, he looked and looked and he then found one , made the order :) and they told him the order is processed .. BUT .. the order was canceled because the last camera in stock was sold at the time of processing the order .. WOW .. what a luck .. :)
- I told him forget about e-stores,go buy it from any physical store even its very expensive .. and at last he got it from Circuit City:
- And .. HOOOOOOOOREEEYAAA i got it for 314$ :D .. anyway .. I'm winner at the end .. thanks a lot to my hero Eng.Sherif Shouman my manager :).
Till the next blog entry ... leave you in peace ..
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