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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3164746" data-attributes="member: 109211">Hej HNSteady there. The sun will be coming soon and this bad feeling will go away.I agree with Brock and Chris but I don't see this as charity.If a shop provides a service such as letting you handle and perhaps test several pairs of bins they are providing a service (and a building within which you can enjoy this service) and if I was to repeatedly use this service and not pay for it in some way, I would feel as though I was stealing.This is a different service from an on-line seller. Ths two optics shops I use (one for bins, the other for photo stuff) offer advice, go out of their way to obtain products for me,give advice, offer decent 'trade-in' prices when I want to sell them my gear in order to buy new kit from them. These are all services that I enjoy and think it is worthwhile paying for. I could save some money on one or two deals by buying on-line but over the years I have saved time and money in other ways by dealing with these shops.And that is without factoring in what happens quite regularly when a friend of mine buys on line. What he gets turns out to be not what he expected or wanted. Like a Canon lens supposedly in stock in Ireland but took 5 weeks to be delivered and turned out to be from a Far East market. Or a lens described as internal focusing, despite the fact that the objective lens moves backwards and forwards. These and other stuff have had to be packed up and sent back and the products ordered from another dealer.I think my time and energy have a price on them too and this sort of hassle is too 'expensive' for me.HejLee</blockquote>

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