Beach Camera Experiences?

[acrakes]

Seeing a phenomenal deal on a 5K monitor, but does anyone have experience ordering from them? Seeing Reddit chatter that they're a "selective scammer", so some people get orders without a problem, others get damaged goods or nothing at all.

 

[terryw1]

Seeing a phenomenal deal on a 5K monitor, but does anyone have experience ordering from them? Seeing Reddit chatter that they're a "selective scammer", so some people get orders without a problem, others get damaged goods or nothing at all.

I’ve had mixed results. Camera equipment no problem, computers and accessories another story. I would steer clear.

 

[Boyd01]

About 20 years ago Beach Camera had the lowest price on a Sony pro video camera I was shopping for. Fearing that it might be too good to be true, I drove almost 100 miles up there from my home in Southern New Jersey to see it in person. First question was... where's the beach? It was a little storefront in a strip mall on the side of a mountain, not far from New York City.

Not exactly what I expected from their ads, that little store was just overflowing with stuff. But everything was fine, I bought the camera and used it for a number of years with no problems. Now, that was 20 years ago so everything could be completely different now, they may not even be in the same location. 🙂

That was my only experience with Beach. Today, I would stick with the bigger, better-known retailers. If I just had to have something from Beach again, would do the same thing and go to the store to get it in person (if that is even possible now).

 

[acrakes]

Thanks, this all matches my impressions. Luckily Amazon dropped their price to match - 699.99 for the Samsung Viewfinity S9. The price is right, now I'm just in the overthinking phase.