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12-25-2014, 06:17 AM   #1
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Online Shop in Beijing - Trustful?

Hi all, thought that would be a Xmas question... ;-)
Am watching out for an affordable new or used FA600/4, checked the www and found only the one used in good shape located in New Jersey and... apparently plenty of them in stock in China:
Pentax FA 600mm f / 4 ED_Pentax Lens_Lens_wholesale iphone 6, wholesale iphone 5s, wholesale samsung galaxy, cheap iphone 6, cheap iphone 5s, cheap samsung galaxy, unlocked iPhone 6, unlocked iPhone 5s, -
What do you think? Is this shop trustful...? Anybody bought there yet?
It seems pretty low priced which already gives me an impression of being unserious... andyet I never bought things where companies are located in Hongkong... but this one is located in Beijing (mainland China)...
Looking forward to your feedback - Thanks.

12-25-2014, 06:46 AM   #2
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I just checked out this website. I have bought gear and other stuff from Hong Kong, mainland China and Japan with no problems.

This site is advertising a SMC Pentax-DA* 50-135 mm F 2.8 ED (IF) SDM at $298 US ???. I would not spend my money there, if it sounds to good to be true it certainly is.
12-25-2014, 06:48 AM   #3
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Qty 1000? I did not think there were that many in the wild.

But if it works out for you let us know. I'm in at that price.
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The Pentax FA 300mm f/4.5 ED is $318. Seriously, can you say S-C-A-M.

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QuoteOriginally posted by PentxOrni Quote
Hi all, thought that would be a Xmas question... ;-)
Am watching out for an affordable new or used FA600/4, checked the www and found only the one used in good shape located in New Jersey and... apparently plenty of them in stock in China:
Pentax FA 600mm f / 4 ED_Pentax Lens_Lens_wholesale iphone 6, wholesale iphone 5s, wholesale samsung galaxy, cheap iphone 6, cheap iphone 5s, cheap samsung galaxy, unlocked iPhone 6, unlocked iPhone 5s, -
What do you think? Is this shop trustful...? Anybody bought there yet?
It seems pretty low priced which already gives me an impression of being unserious... andyet I never bought things where companies are located in Hongkong... but this one is located in Beijing (mainland China)...
Looking forward to your feedback - Thanks.
Be careful. In China, there have several large on-line shopping places like taobao(eBay equivalent, owned by Alibaba) or jd. The Price of Pentax lenses is usually close or even higher than U.S price and lot of cheap ones come from grey market. FA 600mm F4 is also rare there and I can only find one on taobao with $30k quote price...
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Thanks!

Yep... that's what I suspected already... you confirmed my 1st impression...looks like SCAM indeed...thanks so much for your comments!
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That mess of unrelated search tags/hash tags/whatever they're called, that are included in the link text should be warning enough...

The low-res image of the 600/4 reminds me of 419 Eater for some reason.
Would be funny to write to eleoem and ask for actual photos of the lens in stock just to see what sort of really bad
mock up they produce.
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Might be completely unrelated but a friend of mine wanted a DSLR and I convinced him to go for a Pentax (told him about the K3 and to compare it using snapsort.com to any Nikon and Canon in his price range)

He found a "deal" in Alibaba for the K3 and the 18-135mm WR lens both for $700. Too good to be true. I told him but he still went with it. Turns out it was indeed a scam and he lost the $700

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Seems like a certified scammer. Googling I see a lot of people complaining.....
For example:
Oemele - Scam for export duty tax, Review 698508 | Complaints Board
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