SLR Hut - genuine?

[Legend83]

Anyone used this website before? The prices seem too good to be true!

http://slrhut.co.uk/

[ProSc2008]

I wouldn't risk it:
http://blog.photo3.co.uk/2011/12/is-slrhut-scam-sl...

[bicycleshorts]

Legend83 said:

Anyone used this website before? The prices seem too good to be true!

http://slrhut.co.uk/

US Imports: http://slrhut.co.uk/about-index/ . Much the same idea as Kerso/FlashCamera.

They also add on duty at checkout time.

[E55 Max]

Strange Phone number and Weird opening hours would suggest a foreign company, Not one based in SE11?

[james_tigerwoods]

On This forum this response came back from the powerfully built director:

Y'man said:

Hello fellow bloggers it is my pleasure to introduce myself.My name is Henry the Director of Business Development for SlrHut.Wanted to say we are are a small company and from time to time there may be a problem w. your order,if any issue happens to come about we promise to do everything possible to make sure our customers are happy.So skeptical about placing an order?try us you wont regret it it, with stellar customer service, fast shipping - oh yes, youll save a ton of money as well feel free to contact me at any time.If your still not comfortable you can pay more at jessops or amazon.

Best Regards,
Henry Frankel
Director of Buiness Development
SlrHut
[e-mail]

Not sure if it was tongue in cheek though.

Saying that, the D3100 price isn't way off...

Some comments on here, especially it's address makes me laugh:

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/new-camera...

I don't know that it's fake or not, but it does provide some humour

Edited by james_tigerwoods on Wednesday 14th March 15:14

[bicycleshorts]

E55 Max said:

Strange Phone number and Weird opening hours would suggest a foreign company, Not one based in SE11?

Some cities now have 02 numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_...

[E55 Max]

bicycleshorts said:

Some cities now have 02 numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_...

Yep but not South East 11, ie. London!

[bicycleshorts]

E55 Max said:

Yep but not South East 11, ie. London!

wiki said:

020 | London | formerly 0171 and 0181 (1995–2000),071 and 081 (1990–1995), 01 (1960s-1990)

[K12beano]

E55 Max said:

Strange Phone number and Weird opening hours would suggest a foreign company, Not one based in SE11?

Such handy shopping hours:




Sadly I wanted to shop while it was GMT....

[Legend83]

No, then.

[E55 Max]

bicycleshorts said:

E55 Max said:

Yep but not South East 11, ie. London!

wiki said:

020 | London | formerly 0171 and 0181 (1995–2000),071 and 081 (1990–1995), 01 (1960s-1990)

0203 is certainly not the SE11 code!

[bicycleshorts]

Some businesses would disagree with you:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=se11+0203

ETA: Not saying I do, but it would be nice to have some links back since I don't live in London...

ETA2: Does this explain it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_telephone_code_mis... (also see the 'New London numbers' section).

Edited by bicycleshorts on Wednesday 14th March 15:47

[GetCarter]

From the horses mouth

"Pay more at jessops or amazon"

[Druid]

336 Kennington Ln, London, SE11 5HY

[K12beano]

On-site parking, then!

[MonkeyHanger]

K12beano said:

yes: Such handy shopping hours:




Sadly I wanted to shop while it was GMT....

Close early on Friday, closed all day Saturday but open on Sunday. Kit is sent from the States?....that's a classic sign of a Brooklyn based Jewish owned store. There's only a couple of those i would trust and those are B&H and Adorama.

Bargepole time, imho.

[marshalla]

GetCarter said:

From the horses mouth

"Pay more at jessops or amazon"

Interesting - if you take the first line from SLRHut's "About" page and pop it into Google - it leads to this :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aag/details?ie=UTF8&amp...

[mph1977]

E55 Max said:

bicycleshorts said:

E55 Max said:

Yep but not South East 11, ie. London!

wiki said:

020 | London | formerly 0171 and 0181 (1995–2000),071 and 081 (1990–1995), 01 (1960s-1990)

0203 is certainly not the SE11 code!

'0203' is not a valid code in the UK at present

020 is the London code there are 8 digits in the 'local' London number of which the first can be 3, 7, or 8

the old 7 and 8 location discrimination no longer applies where new 7nnn nnnn and 8nnn nnnn numbers are issued - especially for 70/71nn nnnn and 80/81nn nnnn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/020

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_telephone_code_mis...

if you look at their site it appears the funny opening hours might be because calls are routed to the parent company in the US as 1400 hours in the UK = 0900 on the east coast of the USA...