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In New York, so thought that we would do the tourist thing and go up the Empire States building. Having seem and taken pictures of most of the citys we have been in by night, we wanted to do the same here and so took some tripods so that we could. Unfortunatly some selfish, greedy and idiotic American wasn't watching where they were going and tripped over a tripod a few months ago and sued. The result? No tripods allowed into the building. The wanker.
They have a huge camera and related equipment shop here, B&H. It's huge and set up like Argos, you order and then pay and collect. Its clearly an equal opportunities employer, they have a black security guard. Every other employee is Jewish. It is the worst place I have ever been for customer service. ASk a question and you can be met by an annoyed look, or be told that now is not a good time. Every staff member has an attitude, but the managers and older ones are worst. Trying to buy a second hand slr and I was ranted at because the dumb idiot behind the counter couldn't understand my accent, and mis interpreted everything I said. I have met lots of agressive sales techniques on this trip, but this place was shocking.
It's Independence day today, and New York has a famous fireworks display put on by Macy's. I was really looking forward to this, thousands of people stood by the East river. They got a boring, very long display of big expensive, unimpressive rockets. If you come to America, skip the 4th of July fireworks, see the ones at DisneyLand instead, they are far better.
Apart from all that its a nice city though, and has the world's largest internet cafe. A huge self service EasyInternet in Times Square.
They have a huge camera and related equipment shop here, B&H. It's huge and set up like Argos, you order and then pay and collect. Its clearly an equal opportunities employer, they have a black security guard. Every other employee is Jewish. It is the worst place I have ever been for customer service. ASk a question and you can be met by an annoyed look, or be told that now is not a good time. Every staff member has an attitude, but the managers and older ones are worst. Trying to buy a second hand slr and I was ranted at because the dumb idiot behind the counter couldn't understand my accent, and mis interpreted everything I said. I have met lots of agressive sales techniques on this trip, but this place was shocking.
It's Independence day today, and New York has a famous fireworks display put on by Macy's. I was really looking forward to this, thousands of people stood by the East river. They got a boring, very long display of big expensive, unimpressive rockets. If you come to America, skip the 4th of July fireworks, see the ones at DisneyLand instead, they are far better.
Apart from all that its a nice city though, and has the world's largest internet cafe. A huge self service EasyInternet in Times Square.
