I’m glad everything worked out for you!
You have now a taste of Financial Warfare… it can be most dangerous to experience.
I strongly advice you to leave that 1700 dollars in the bank ALONE, keep adding to it. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
If you put eyeballs on a camera in a store like walmart or a camera shop that you can see, feel, touch and try out before buying… examine it most closely. Try not to get sucked in by the wonderful marketing buzzwords… example.
A computer with the buzz word “Intergrated Video” That right here was a deal killer because system ram would be scavanged and forced to handover memory to put up a display that is not up to par. really bad.
You are going to get ripped off several more times in life. Hopefully you will learn and document each experience and move forward a hardened shopper who knows exactly what you want and where to find it at a price you accept.
I do hope that when you do find THE CAMERA or whatever it is you seek, you will know it right then everything will be without misgivings and regrets or whatifs. Pay cash for that item if you do find it.
If anything else, try to be cash only in today’s economy. Everything else is just a credit application carrying 30% interest, double cycle billing plus universal default which means you fail to pay ONE bill,… ANY one of your house bills, you defaulted on the credit sale.
Cash rules, Bull gets to walk home. At a young age my first car was a 400 dollar cash buy. that was great. Shop maintaince ate me alive. But that fresh shiney no shop retail 8000 dollar plymouth turned into a 16000 after capitalized interest repo monster that ate me alive for 7 years.
Lesson, dont walk into a dealer ship. You are fresh fish for the filleting. In those days interest was 16% or more with monthly payments plus warrantry etc that really, really, really allowed that
You are learning.Glad that it worked out. Remember there are a lot of good people in this world willing to do what is right.I try to buy locally.The mom and pop places that need my business.They will help you and want your repeat business.I through the years(past60)have steered away from low prices as I felt 'its to good to be true.I/WE my father and I had a construction business after many lean winters I felt it was time to surrender and geta job with benefits and some stability-at the wife’s urging.My father was 70 at the time.So my point its even harder to have a small business today,so if possible I buy from the small business.If I have a problem I want a face and a name to talk too like a friend. it seems thought that all small business’s are being pushed out by the big co’s with better buying power.Just my 2cts.