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I immediately called B&H customer service, who informed me to take photos of the empty box and email them to them, which I did. I received a response the next day that they had looked at their packing video and that it showed the product being placed in the box. I informed them that they may have been looking at the first shipment being packed, but clearly not the second. I also informed them I would not pay $114.42 for an item I did not receive.

They've now stopped responding to me. I've disputed the order with my credit card company. In the last 6 months I've purchased over $7000.00 in products from B&H. I'm not a liar or a thief. If they fight my dispute, I will never order another product from this company again. They clearly don't respect their customers. I also think they're lying about watching the package video, because they would have clearly seen nothing being placed in the second box.

I will first address the Used Department, as that is how my family and I have found great prices on older electronics in general, as I am sure many of you who are reading this review are aware of. In the past, when we wanted to trade in, let's say a relatively valuable, but older PC monitor, or other similar electronic items, we would hear back from an employee from the department either with an offer, or proper explanation of them being unable to offer any trade in value (like if the monitor was just too old, like over 10 years, and they could not sell it, which is reasonable). In other words, they treated you with respect enough to be upfront and honest, which from recent experience, simply doesn't happen anymore.

One of my friends I was working with to help get rid of relatively new tech (talking barely 2 years old or so) one was a PC monitor, if you care what it was, it was a DELL UP3017. The other thing was a Vive Pro VR system that he bought and used for development until he lost his job as developer for a game publisher. I wonder if I need to copy and paste the obvious copy and paste message they tell me or any of my family and friends now, I guess I will paraphrase part of it and explain why I am offended by the callousness of it.

This is what they tell me or any of us now for pretty much anything we send a list of to trade in. "Unfortunately, we have no market for, or are currently overstocked with those items you wish to trade in. We hope you continue to shop BH...". Seems like a lot of people here get that same copy and pasted message or messages very similar to it. The reason for my personal offense, is that those two items in particular, the Vive Pro system and DELL UP3017 are in fact items being sold as of this date (February 26th, 2021) on their site, the Vive Pro is in the "on the way" status, meaning a restock is possible, and the UP3017 is in stock to purchase.

So what I am reading from the copy and pasted message, obviously the customer service was in a rush and sent me a nonsensical message rather than taking time to be reasonable and explain honestly why they cannot trade in the items I mentioned,. I ask you who are reading this, how do they state they have no market for first, the Vive Pro, which the Pro version is on order, the Pro Eye version is in stock and so are a bunch of Vive accessories (and even the slightly cheaper Vive Cosmos as an alternative to the Pro systems), and so obviously these items have a market and are selling, and second of all how can you be overstocked, when the Vive Pro is out of stock? Same thing with the UP3017, if there was no market, why is it still being sold on the site then?

It's there on the main site and I saw one in the used department too. Furthermore, There is no way they are overstocked on the UP3017, it is a special use case, 16:10 aspect ratio (uncommon now that 16:9 has a large portion of the market), wide color gamut IPS monitor used for color grading and photographer/videographer work in general. It is not a cheap, readily available monitor that they have thousands to sell, not many of them are made at all.

Sure, you could argue with me all day about their refusals being nothing more than viewing the loss of the money my friends and family spent every year in the past as a loss they are willing to take to not pay out a few hundred or one thousand for both items in question. Interesting math, as on average we've spent (individually) around 6000 dollars a year each, which is 500 a month, and if you multiple that by just 50 people in my family, that is around 300000 dollars a year, and that does not factor in my hundreds of friends who used to buy all their technology from this company.

Not to mention, my workplace used to, but our CEO already gave the order to switch our technology suppliers to competitors instead due to multiple problems trying to get proper answers and honesty. Seems to be a pattern as I see here with other people's workplaces doing the same. Bad treatment of customers has a heavy cost doesn't it? Last month, I made my final purchase from them because they were the only one who had something I critically needed for work, in stock (every other store was backordered for months) but now I am done giving them my money.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of communicating via email with B&H customer service, is that customer service sometimes will not identify themselves at all, in fact, one of the messages refusing the Vive Pro and Dell UP3017 are from a blank name, showing no willingness to take responsibility for the message being written. This message which made a lame attempt to explain their acknowledgement of the poorly written copy and pasted message about 'no market' and 'overstocked' basically said, the reason I am seeing these items in the store, is because sometimes they are used returns, interesting, so are you admitting to selling used items as new?

I know I saw a complaint here about that for an expensive order and it makes me wonder now, how many items were sold to me as 'new' for retail price over the years when they were nothing more than repackaged returns or outright used items. Of course, after this message was written, they probably realized their mistake in saying that, but it's too late now, this information is out there now, from me and everyone else here who had similar experiences.

I doubt things will change, especially if the people in charge don't change, I think the complaints will remain the same here. The inaction of these people, shows an unwillingness to fix their mistakes and makes me feel the arrogance of people in charge must think they don't make mistakes and that if taking responsibility of fixing problems like missing orders, wrong address delivery, costs too much and all these customers are worth losing, eventually you won't have a business anymore, because you will not have enough customers to sustain the business if you keep treating people badly.

I told them the 1st roll was already printed. They refused to accept my return for the $63 roll and are supposedly sending it back to me. So.. I am left holding the bag for an entire 150’ roll of media I cannot use!! This company wouldn’t take responsibility for a faulty product from their warehouse and simply either refund or credit me. I will NEVER shop there again.

The item I ordered has arrived on January but do you think B&H issued any kinda shipping refund to me. This is my first time ordering a product from there in a few years due to bad customer service before. I thought I would give them a try again and it's the same experience. I do see many people sharing the same experience as me.