Recommended sites and sites to avoid

[Grandpaw]

Don Wiss has a great encyclopedia of camera store addresses. You can almost tell if a vendor is legitimate by looking at the store front. I doubt it applies for exclusively used dealers (KEH looks like it may not have the store front they used to, even), but it's very enlightening.

One experience from Abe's Of Maine years ago did me in. I hear Abe's may have cleaned up, but the bad taste is still lingering. A long time ago I did sales as well, so I know the tricks some of the dealers used. Luckily for the consumer, the internet makes most of the tricks obsolete. Link plug to Don Wiss below.

http://donwiss.com/pictures/ManhattanStores/
http://donwiss.com/pictures/BrooklynStores/

Some of this is hilarious.

Thanks for sharing the information with us, Jeff