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Camera store on Fisherman's Wharf will convince you that the camera you are interested in is a total bargain compared to the price you pay back home. They will 'throw' lots of items in with it 'for free' to show you what a great deal you are getting from them. If you're really gullible you will fall for this & buy the camera. Later, on passing other stores, you will discover that you could have bought the camera for a third of the price several times over. You will return to the original 'rip off' shop to be told that, if you walk with him to the shops that told you those low prices, he will willingly put things right as he wants to make his customers happy. On arriving at the said shops, the assistants will tell you that they have never seen you before & don't know what you are talking about OR that you got it wrong & it's only the camera for sale at that price; no leads, batteries, etc. They will even have scraped off the tell-tale price label if there was one. They will look you in the face; have no qualms. They will lie unashamedly. You will get nowhere no matter how hard you try because the phone call / walkie-talkie / messaging system [whatever it is] works well throughout the whole network of shops up and down the Wharf. The receipt states No Refund and there is nothing you can do but bite the bullet. Our particular store was 2800 Leavenworth St. but it really doesn't matter which one you choose since they're all the same and all in league with each other! One trader admitted to us that the lying takes place, adding that they're 'not bad men. It's just that they don't want to get involved as the tourist goes home while they have to live & work together'. As far as I am concerned, they become involved the moment they coldly lie for each other to innocent tourists. Agreed, we are idiots for succumbing in the first place. The camera's great! However, despicable doesn't begin to describe the rip-off merchants that sold it to us at a hugely exhorbitant price then lied through their teeth. Stay well clear!
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