New Egg, Buydig.com, B&h Photovideo

New Egg, Buydig.com, B&h Photovideo People that bought things from those sites: reviews?

#1 vintageballad

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Posted 25 August 2008 - 06:29 PM

I'm buying a Canon A590 IS, but kinda want to save those extra 20-or-so dollars by buying them from one of these sites instead of Best Buy or Circuit City.

New Egg: $148.99
BuyDig.com (free shipping): $143.90
B&H Photovideo $149.95
Best Buy & Circuit City : $170.99 (on sale) with free shipping from Circuit City.

On Resellerratings.com (and also shopping.com and bizrate.com), these three online stores generally get pretty good reviews, but I'm still paranoid about those not-so-great ones.

The Exceptional:
__________________________R R - SH - BR
1. B&H Photovideo-----------9.32 - 4.5 - 9.3
2. New Egg -----------------9.64 - 4.5 - 8.8
~~3. Beach Camera ------------9.03 - 4.5 - 9.3~~
4. BuyDig.com ^-------------8.36 - 4.5 - 9.1

Ratings from dcresource.com/forums.

I'm kinda iffy about BuyDig.com after I read the reviews people gave on resellerratings.com, but can anyone tell me if I should trust either New Egg or B&H Photo and buy the camera off from one of them, or should I just buy it from well known retail stores like Circuit City or Best Buy.

Edit: Mmm, thanks guys, for the reviews. I ordered the camera on BuyDig on Sunday, and it's been 4 days already.

I got an email from them yesterday that my camera and the SanDisk card have been shipped, though. I hope I get it some time this week.

Edit 2: Okay, I got my camera after... 6 days. =]

#2 YSK

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Posted 25 August 2008 - 06:35 PM

I have a group of techies i know that order a lot of stuff off newegg, seems like its relatively hassle free, not sure about the other one.

#3 watcher

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Posted 26 August 2008 - 08:11 AM

all are great vendors. for cameras, BH is the gold standard. i've never had problems with buydig either. they're my 2nd option when i buy camera equipment. i go to newegg only when they have sales or for computer parts, but they are pretty solid too. i dont think you can go wrong with any of them.

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#4 **ThatGirlPhuong

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Posted 26 August 2008 - 06:51 PM

My sister has bought so many products from B&H with smooth transactions so yes they're pretty reliable.
She's gotten 5 Canon EOS 30D cameras from the site along with 10-15 different lenses, all in perfect condition.

Also if you plan on buying them more from the future, if you sign up for their account (or club/whatever it is) you can have free shipping for the whole year.