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#181
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Question, please. I'm considering a Canon G7X being sold by an acquaintance. It's new with all the accessories and English user guide. It has a Canon EOS Limited Warranty for USA and Canada card. He bought it from 42nd St Photo. I'm feeling a bit uneasy. Presuming it's Grey Market item. The warranty (EOS) card seems odd. I wonder if Canon would even honor it. Reactions? Thank you.
Henry Posner
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#182
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Thank you all. I contacted Canon and verified the warranty question as suggested. They were very responsive. I would normally buy from a mainline camera site, but this a unique situation and just wanted to be sure I had some coverage. Thank you.
#183
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Question, please. I'm considering a Canon G7X being sold by an acquaintance. It's new with all the accessories and English user guide. It has a Canon EOS Limited Warranty for USA and Canada card. He bought it from 42nd St Photo. I'm feeling a bit uneasy. Presuming it's Grey Market item. The warranty (EOS) card seems odd.
PS. I am glad to notice that your situation is satisfactorily resolved.
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#184
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And some US warranties are only valid for the original owner and are not transferable.
Henry Posner
B&H Photo-Video
#185
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HI, appreciate the comment. To your question, 42nd St. wouldn't be my first choice. If you read some of the earlier comments on this threat, as well as google them, you'll see why. I've had very good experiences with a couple of other on-line sites that I would normally prefer. Given the circumstances with this particular purchase, and Canon's better warranty coverage, it was worth it this time. Thank you.
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#187
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There may be problems at B&H -- I don't know. I do know that Al Jazeera is very biased in its coverage of things Jewish and Israeli. When Al Jazeera America first started, I read it avidly, as it had a decidedly non-main-stream approach to important news events. However, I began to notice its anti-Jewish/anti-Israeli bias. For example, there were a couple of terrorists who killed five worshippers in a Jerusalem synagogue and then were shot dead by police. Al Jazeera's headline was, "Two Palestinians Killed by Israeli Police." That was when I stopped reading them.
I'd take that article with a huge grain of salt.
#189
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Apparently it's been alleged that some of the workers are undocumented but our personnel department is scrupulous about making sure we see documentation for every person we hire. Could we be fooled by well-made forgeries? Sure, but we see and document (no pun) documentation for every hire.
#190
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B&H's labor concerns are their business. I've never had a bad experience with them.
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Are you suggesting that Al Jazeera and their reporter manufactured the claim of a gender bias lawsuit?
I am sure that B&H - along with every other business ever accused of a labor law violation - wishes that your statement were true, but the DoL, OSHA, and FLRA, et al say otherwise.
Edited. See post #193
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#192
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Because of Al Jazeera's anti-Jewish/anti-Israel bias.
No. The cited article isn't about a gender bias lawsuit, but about B&H supposedly compromising worker safety.
No one has said anything about a conspiracy.
Do you have a cite for that?
Are you suggesting that al Jazeera manufactured the claim of a gender bias lawsuit?
Is ultra orthodox publication Yeshiva World News also part of the conspiracy?
I am sure that B&H - along with every other business ever accused of a labor law violation - wishes that your statement were true, but the DoL, OSHA, and FLRA, et al say otherwise.
#193
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I haven't really paid enough attention to Al Jazeera America to assess whether or not they have an "anti-Jewish/anti-Israel bias" but the author of the article in question made no claims of her own which need or need not be "taken with a grain of salt". She simply reported what B&H employees were telling her. As I said, I doubt that she manufactured those accounts.
Yup, I mistakenly conflated an earlier lawsuit against B&H with this most recent article.
The poster I responded to suggested that the reporter's accounting of what B&H employees were telling her were suspect and not to be trusted not because of any facts yet in evidence to the contrary but merely by virtue of the fact that she works for Al Jazeera America.
If this reporter and Al Jazeera America manufactured these claims then that would in fact be a conspiracy.
As the federal agencies listed do in fact have regulatory jurisdiction over the workplace it seems self-evident to me that B&H's "labor concerns" - or anyone's for that matter - are in fact not just "their own" but are in fact of concern for society at large.
YMMV.
I make no claim to know whether or not these latest accusations by these warehouse workers have any merit. They very well may not. But I do know that this is the third [or fourth?] significant labor-related issue B&H has had in the last few years and see no need to dismiss out of hand these latest claims simply because the first major news outlet to report on the matter wasn't the New York Times or WaPo.
Actually, as a 30-year customer of B&H [made my first purchase at the age of 14] I would hope that these claims either aren't true or are at the very least being greatly exaggerated. But given B&H's past troubles in this area I am willing to consider the possibility that the claims being made by the warehouse workers might have some merit.
The poster I responded to suggested that the reporter's accounting of what B&H employees were telling her were suspect and not to be trusted not because of any facts yet in evidence to the contrary but merely by virtue of the fact that she works for Al Jazeera America.
If this reporter and Al Jazeera America manufactured these claims then that would in fact be a conspiracy.
As the federal agencies listed do in fact have regulatory jurisdiction over the workplace it seems self-evident to me that B&H's "labor concerns" - or anyone's for that matter - are in fact not just "their own" but are in fact of concern for society at large.
YMMV.
I make no claim to know whether or not these latest accusations by these warehouse workers have any merit. They very well may not. But I do know that this is the third [or fourth?] significant labor-related issue B&H has had in the last few years and see no need to dismiss out of hand these latest claims simply because the first major news outlet to report on the matter wasn't the New York Times or WaPo.
Actually, as a 30-year customer of B&H [made my first purchase at the age of 14] I would hope that these claims either aren't true or are at the very least being greatly exaggerated. But given B&H's past troubles in this area I am willing to consider the possibility that the claims being made by the warehouse workers might have some merit.
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#194
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I haven't really paid enough attention to Al Jazeera America to assess whether or not they have an "anti-Jewish/anti-Israel bias" but the author of the article in question made no claims of her own which need or need not be "taken with a grain of salt". She simply reported what B&H employees were telling her. As I said, I doubt that she manufactured those accounts.
The poster I responded to suggested that the reporter's accounting of what B&H employees were telling her were suspect and not to be trusted not because of any facts yet in evidence to the contrary but merely by virtue of the fact that she works for Al Jazeera America.
If this reporter and Al Jazeera America manufactured these claims then that would in fact be a conspiracy.
As the federal agencies listed do in fact have regulatory jurisdiction over the workplace it seems self-evident to me that B&H's "labor concerns" - or anyone's for that matter - are in fact not just "their own" but are in fact of concern for society at large.
I make no claim to know whether or not these latest accusations by these warehouse workers have any merit. They very well may not. But I do know that this is the third [or fourth?] significant labor-related issue B&H has had in the last few years and see no need to dismiss out of hand these latest claims simply because the first major news outlet to report on the matter wasn't the New York Times or WaPo.
Actually, as a 30-year customer of B&H [made my first purchase at the age of 14] I would hope that these claims either aren't true or are at the very least being greatly exaggerated. But given B&H's past troubles in this area I am willing to consider the possibility that the claims being made by the warehouse workers might have some merit.
As I said, because Al Jazeera America is a demonstrably biased source, I take this particular report with a grain of salt, meaning, without more, I don't credit it.
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