BROADWAY PHOTO - DO NOT BUY FROM THIS COMPANY!!

I ordered a Canon Rebel XTI w/ 17-55mm lens because the price was over $100 less then the other companies. This ended up being to good to be true! A couple of days after ordering the product I received a call to "verify" my order. I was pressed hard into buying a battery for over $100 saying that the battery that came with the camera would only last for 15minutes??!! which I thought was odd and raised my suspicions immediately as i had already done prior research on the camera and battery from the actual canon site and even spoke with a Circuit City salesperson. Well I ended up not buying the battery and a few days had passed and no tracking information was on my account! So I called a representative who informed me that the item was out of stock and they would receive it within a few days or so. BS! Their site clearly lists it as In Stock!

I quickly googled their company name just to see if this had happened with anyone else and that's when I stumbled upon this post and many others from different sites. In addition, I came across this article from PC World about what they found at this store and a few others when they went under cover; THIS IS VERY INTERESTING: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,10...1/article.html

Basically, these New York companies are able to sell these products for so cheap because they are GRAY MARKET products and will also try and get you to purchase more very expensive accessories and if you don't buy them the item is all of a sudden out of stock! THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!

Luckily nothing had been purchased to my card so I immediately canceled the order and received a confirmation e-mail............I will also be changing my card # for my safety, just in case! I will be buying this item from Amazon.com.