Pictures of NJ Storefronts

In rec.photo.digital Rita Ä Berkowitz <ritaberk2O04 @aol.com> wrote:
>G.T. wrote:

>> I'm going to buy double-extra from B&H now because of "SPAM ALERT"
>> and Rita.

>LOL! Keep dreaming. Double of nothing is still nothing. I'll bet you
>never bought a single thing from B&H?

Well, I have bought most of my equipment from B&H and will
continue to patronize them.

And SPAM ALERT was just being divisive and trollish. Don is
a long-time regular here, SPAM ALERT just arrived.

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Rita Ä Berkowitz wrote:
> G.T. wrote:
>
>>> Right! Just like them 5,000 Dells you bought.
>>
>> Thanks for reminding me about our last Dell disaster, the few GX745s
>> we're buying are holding up much better than the 620s. In the long
>> run it's not going to matter because our pilot of 120 iMacs is
>> working out quite well.
>
> Yes, I'm still laughing at that story. What makes you think an incompetent
> IT department that doesn't know how to do basic configuration on a PC is
> going to do any better with Apple? Some how I still sense you have yet to
> wash that brown ring from your nose. The bullshit is getting deeper and
> deeper.

Do you have to flaunt your ignorance? Or are you just flouting the rules
of sensible posting yet again?

One doesn't need much "configuring", and there's ever so much more time
to actually do work as there're no viruses to shield against.

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G.T. wrote:

> Well, aren't you a bitch. Sometimes it's nice to support those who are
> doing the public a free service.

LOL, well I've been an Amazon and Adorama associate for years, and not
only are the commissions paying for the web hosting and a new camera or
lens occasionally, I get a lot of nice e-mails thanking me for the web
sites (which I don't get paid for, and which have no advertising).
Usually it's less than $200 per quarter in commissions, but it's better
than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Occasionally I'll get a nice
surprise with several D-SLRs being purchased from the click through.

But if someone just posts a Usenet post with their associate ID then
that's not providing a service, and I won't penalize the retailer by
clicking through, they are already operating on thin margins.
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Cynicor wrote:

> Sometimes I go in there just to get that great photography smell. Mmmmm.
> And also to ask if anyone's bought any of the Sony Alphas so they can
> tell me "still no."

Every time I go to NYC, it warrants a trip to B&H even though it's more
expensive to buy stuff in person than to have it shipped due to the high
NYC sales tax. Last time I wanted some small binoculars for a play we
were going to that night. Very helpful guy in the binocular department
who wasn't pushing me to the most expensive stuff.

I'll be sure to use Don's link (at least until I become an associate
myself!).
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Rita Ä Berkowitz wrote:

> Plus, all affiliates and other bullshit is blocked on my
> system.

Not possible.
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:17:14 -0700, henryp <henryp.TakeThisOut@bhphotovideo.com> wrote:

>On Sep 18, 5:58 pm, Rita Ä Berkowitz <ritaberk2O04 @aol.com> wrote:
>> I was just
>> pointing out that I don't and most people don't and/or shouldn't use
>> click-throughs or redirects as a means to getting to a venders website. I
>> know how to find B&H's website and don't need the extra clutter when I visit
>> someone's website.
>
>Actually, plenty of people do. It costs you nothing, doesn't slow you
>connection time by a nanosecond and the guy (Don in this instance)
>gets a penny or two to help finance what has become a valuable public
>service. By purposely skipping this you deprive Don of income and hurt
>no one but yourself since Don has to pay to maintain the site you use
>and sooner or later if it costs him too much you (and everyone else
>who values it) will find it AWOL.
>
>Up yo you of course, though.

Don's site won't be missed, not in the least.
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> > On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:11:39 -0400, Don Wiss wrote:
> >
> > Now for full disclosure. I've become a B&H associate. There
are
> > now B&H ads on these pages. Be warned that if you click on
one
> > and then buy something I get a small commission.
> >
> ASAAR wrote:
>
>
> That's nice, but it would be nicer still if you also got a
> commission (much smaller, of course) for ad clicks that don't
result
> in immediate sales. Some might be catalysts for sales that are
only
> made after returning to B&H's website several days later, but
I
> suppose that that kind of detailed tracking would be difficult.

Hey I agree with ASAAR .
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Clive Z. wrote:
> Don's site won't be missed, not in the least.

I would certainly miss it. He does a ton of work on behalf of consumers,
for free. I use http://donwiss.com/pictures/BrooklynStores/ as a
reference all the time when people I know ask me about the reputation of
a particular store.
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:53:29 GMT, Clive Z. coughed up:

>> . . . since Don has to pay to maintain the site you use . . .
>
> Don's site won't be missed, not in the least.

One more anti-Don vote registered by the troll's sock puppet. But
even if 1,000 more of your sibling socks post similar votes, they
won't add up to more than 1 vote, Biddy.
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:34:33 -0700, SMS <scharf.steven DeleteThis @geemail.com> wrote:

>Rita Ä Berkowitz wrote:
>
>> Plus, all affiliates and other bullshit is blocked on my
>> system.
>
>Not possible.

Quite possible. Use Proxomitron for all your web surfing. You can set it to
block anything on any web page. There's one filter built-in that is specifically
set to block any off-site loading of images and ads. Any new web-code that tries
to bypass known filters you just simply write a new filter using that web page's
received source code. Though when used in conjunction with Opera's built in
content-blocker there's often no need to write your own filters for Proxomitron.
They work quite nicely together to block all spam from anywhere that's being
forced upon the public by any means that they try to use. Even flash content is
no match for this combo of content blockers. Though Opera's content-blocker is a
little limiting because it only works on a site-by-site basis. Proxomitron
filters apply to any site that you visit no matter the origin.

The last time I saw an ad online was about 12 years ago. Minus the one or two a
year that I have to set a new filter for.

Just because you aren't net-savvy doesn't mean the other 99.9999999% of the
surfers are as ignorant. Corporations have been trying to find ways for years to
beat the filters in Proxomitron, even going so far as attacking the sites that
host Proxomitron. They can't stand it that we can filter them all out. Too bad.
I see the net as the way it was intended to be in the beginning, before
corporations and capitalists tried to take control of it. It bothers them to no
end that that is impossible for them to do. The net is still free from corporate
bullshit (from my side of the net), you just have to be smart enough to know how
to filter them all out en masse.
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