NIKON FAILS FOR THE LAST TIME

Here is a video of the second Nikon Coolpix P520 from Argos failing.

I had hoped that the failure might have been down to the battery form the FIRST camera but alas, no.

I am not prepared to go through this for a FIFTH TIME in 6 months and want a full refund. I could not put a figure on how many photos I have missed out on but even in the time I have had these artistic shots have gone out the window as I did not setup the camera how I wanted it due to not wanting to waste my time with a camera that yet again turned out to be faulty.

Once Argos HQ realise that the last email I sent to them was about the LATEST camera and NOT THE previous camera and telling me they are glad I finally sorted out my problem I will have to decide what to do.

There is no local Jessops as they went bust and I do not know of any local camera stores. There is Park Cameras, I think they are called, in Bristol that advertise in photography magazines I might try them.

But after everything I have been through I really, REALLY do not want to buy ANYTHING electrical unless I see it FIRST!!

ARGOS LATEST REPLY

 ...TO FAULTY CAMERA NUMBER FOUR.

Now this may be somewhat confusing and you will not be alone as I had to read this a second time to make sure I was reading what she said correctly?!

Does the word STALLING spring to mind when you read it?

Also and more curiously is that there has been NO reply from Nikon UK?!?!

Also note that hse is UNABLE to access YOUTUBE?!?! LMAO.

COLLECTING THE FOURTH FAULTY CAMERA FROM ARGOS

Well anyone who visits and have worked there way through the previous posts should have guessed that when I took the THIRD faulty camera back to ARGOS to exchange it for the exact same camera, but LESS FAULTY, that I would RECORD the visit.

A lady decided to deal with me and a chap that looked, dressed and acted like the manager suddenly went extremely tight lipped and did not utter a word?!

DO you think he may have been warned I had been recording my visits? LMAO!

Well he stayed tight lipped until I was leaving the store and he passed me and said 'thanks, bye' which you can probably pick up on the tape.

SO the models of camera are:

Nikon Coolpix L810

Olympus SP-820UZ

Nikon Coolpix P520

Nikon Coolpix P520

http://www.wuala.com/allnights/Evidence/Evidence%20MP3/Argos%20Part%204.WAV/

NIKON & ARGOS - I AM NUMBER FOUR

WELL WHAT CAN I SAY?! SIX MONTHS AND FOUR FAULTY CAMERAS!!!!

NO SEAL OF APPROVAL AT NIKON

Well here is a little film I did of the offending seals on the boxes no one wants to admit to!

I also did a little monologue to go with it due to being BLOCKED by Nikon UK, well I have no idea how I will get around my email being blocked....ooh wait how about using one of my other four email addresses?! Err or is it five? No SIX! LMAO!

Stupid!

Anyway I have STILL OMITTED something and like I said in the monologue as well as in emails to both Argos and Nikon....

SPOT THE DELIBERATE MISTAKE?!?!

It IS there I assure you and stares everyone right in the face, lol.

I have emailed a Nikon President and I get the impression there are many COOKS, sorry I mean PRESIDENTS at Nikon as this one is for Nikon UK?!

LMAO!

Also remember....it now seems that everywhere I look they are all at it but I would love to know how it started and why it spread to the biggest names?!

Time will inevitably tell I guess!

ARGOS STRIPPED TO PIECES

Today I got a call from a chap from Argos.

He started of with the usual three mentions of the word 'sorry' like his name is 'Jack' and he wields 'magic beans' which I will just not accept any longer.

He started off on a really long spiel which was becoming both mundane and boring until he said 'WE DO NOT SELL REFURBISHED ITEMS' and I reacted.

He then become cocky and asked in a sarcastic tone 'well how CAN YOU TELL Sir?!' so I told him and he then tried to make excuses to which he then denied doing and I simply ripped him to pieces digit by digit, toe by toe and then limb by limb!

Once again they DENY having nothing to do with the void STICKER and claimed that Nikon put it on the box and yet Nikon UK, who are now blocking my emails, have maintained for 6 months that they do NOT put stickers or seals on ANY boxes?!

Oh do not worry about the blocked email there is always a way around it and if the current one fails I will use another method, a real complicated one I will most likely get accused of being a hacker as I had done previously with Very Catalogue. It is a real complicated hacker way of getting around the blocking of your email address that will take some explaining so here goes nothing...

I WILL USE MY OTHER EMAIL ADDRESS!!!

LMAO!!

SO he can assure me that this camera is not refurbished but when I said that NIKON did not put the sticker on the box he could then not tell me who could.

He slipped up and therefore admitted that they would have to contact 'THEIR SUPPLIERS' which is obviously NOT NIKON.

They should NOT be an authorized dealer if they are going to play these games and Nikon should have stripped them of this 6 months ago and only ONE reason why not!

Argos CANNOT acquire the same and CURRENT model of camera for me which ALSO means they are not using Nikon UK for their cameras, just like B&Q are NOT USING Bionaire for Electric Fans and yet listed as an authorized dealers?!

My fiend Steve roared with laughter once I came of the phone to Argos. He could hear the guy was being cocky and whinced in agony behind his counter imagining what it was like being on the receiving end of m y tongue lashing and I removed the skin from this hapless individual little by little.

The best part is I STILL have not let on to my little OMISSION that is very key to the statements made to me by both Argos and Nikon UK. I have sent them now the details and give them an IQ test to inform me o what the omission might be. It is really simple, if they cannot tell me then they HAVE NO IQ?!

This way they have had NO RIGHT to treat me the way that they have for the last 6 months, no right t speak down to me the way that they have, no right to talk down to me the way that they have attempted to several times.

I will use this as a prime example that will garner a great deal of backing to prevent companies from ever taking the piss out of their customers EVER AGAIN!!!

Yes if someone is up to no good and trying it on I would be all in agreement with this treatment and attitude and I would be the same. But THIS is NOT THAT!

I was unable to record the call with the Customer Services manager who got ripped to pieces by me for an hour or more but after leaving mr friends store I did do a little dictation as things were FRESH in my mind!

http://www.wuala.com/allnights/Evidence/Evidence%20MP3/Argos%20CALL%20150813.mp3/

VERY LAST EMAIL TO NIKON UK

Dear Sirs

I have noted that you are blocking my emails and I have taken screen shots of that and posted all correspondence both coming and going, as you claim I am using bad language which IS HILARIOUS.

Especially as you have wasted 6 months of work and money and caused me a great deal of pain for nothing.

Tut-tut, anyway yes I am mad as hell and have every right to be but my outbursts are always controlled to illicit the correct RESPONSE.

ARGOS HQ been on the phone and they NOW CLAIM that the REFURBISHED CAMERAS come from YOU!! Oh and they claim that the stickers are NOT THEIRS meaning they are YOURS?!?!?!

I am including the blasted photos you ASKED me for and then BLOCKED ME FROM SENDING.

I can guarantee your not going to have a good Christmas anywhere in the world this year or the year after.

What with your reputation and name some form of RECOMPENSE and an APOLOGY should have been minimum, not lies, false accusations and blocking of emails?!

That is just evasive from a guilty consience and as for ARgos having someone cocky attempting to pull me to pieces I am afraid it ended up the other way araound, in fact I was in a friends store and after I came off the phone he burst out laughing at the way in which I dismembered the cocky so and so one digit and then one limb at a time!

Now as a test of intelligence there now are attached several images and some proof. You like talking down to me and making false accusations so here we go...

...within these photos is a very key point that gives the game away to who is doing what as far as refurbished equipment goes.

NOW LET US SEE IF YOU SPOT IT!?!?!?!?! CLUE.... 'VOID STICKER IS NOT YOURS'

You did not read my first email by asking for the faulty images taken, anger management not needed. Then your claimed help and support service only gets worse from here on in. Try sounding caring, sorry and compassionate in future and you will get a lot less in the way of 'BAD LANGUAGE'.

Oh and I have emailed the President of Nikon UK and I will now NOT stop there either as you blocked my emails I will send out a whole barrage of emails now!

Martin Haswell BSc

EMAIL TO THE PRESIDENT OF NIKON UK

This email is to the 'PRESIDENT' of NIKON UK, whatever that means and is this the guy in Japan that decides to screw us or a guy that is actually based here?!

TO: Michio.Miwa@nikon.co.uk

Dear Michio Miwa

REFURBISHED NIKON COOLPIX L810 & P520

I have loved the Nikon name for over thirty years and I have now ashamed to say that this love has waned.

There is a rife attitude towards selling the British Public refurbished cameras which do not even work and I have bought TWO from the Argos store both of which have been faulty out of the box and the latest with both a dirty and damaged lens as well as electronic problems.

It has become obvious to me that there is something extremely criminal and illegal going on and it was easy to spot and the cameras appear to be coming directly from Nikon UK. Whoever was behind this was not very good at doing it and it was easy for me to photograph, document and publish my findings online by way of over a dozen blogs I am author to and a YouTube account.

I have been spoken to like I am an idiot by Ian McDermott who has also accused me of using bad language as well as having no compassion whatsover towards someone with disabilities and pain being ripped off in the Nikon name and are not concerned at all that Argos, a supposedly AUTHORIZED DEALER, is selling cameras that are refurbished and faulty and despite me first telling them of this 6 months ago.

This makes them look extremely guilty.

After asking for photos of proof and the seals on the boxes which Nikon do not nor never do they have now BLOCKED me email address?!

I am publishing online all correspondences online so that the wider GLOBAL public can make up their own minds as to whether I am to blame, a disabled man who has had 6 months of his most productive photographic period WASTED, or the people who stole his money and continued to supply shoddy, after shoddy refurbished and faulty goods?!

Yours

Martin Haswell BSc

ARGOS & NIKON? THREE STRIKES AND YOU ARE OUT!

Right O then...

Out today and I tested that Nikon P520 and I am mad as hell as I love the damn camera and the pictures but its faulty as hell!!

I have now worked out it seems to have a problem with saving things and even froze up so bad TWICE I had to turn the camera off and on one time and remove and replace the battery the second time. The scond time was FILMED along with members of my family I was out with. That is now on YouTube and here is a link...

I even had time to take some pictures before I decided the only thing to do on THIS occasion is REMOVE the BATTERY?!?!

OR BETTER STILL HOW ABOUT MY VISIT TO ARGOS TO PICK UP THE CAMERA AND ME BEGGING THEM NOT TO SELL ME A THIRD REFURBISHED AND FAULTY CAMERA BECAUSE OF THE TIME WASTED AND MY DISABILITIES!!

EXCHANGING OLYMPUS FOR NIKON AT ARGOS AUDIO

With Ombudsman being shit and conmen of the public purse and other governing bodies the same, along with the Citizen's Advice helping the NHS recruit patients to full time work for £3.00 a day (YES THREE POUNDS) me and my brother just do not know what this country of ours is coming too?!

NIKON P520 UNBOX - SPOT MARKS ON LENS

Well this time I decided to RECORD myself in the store on two devices and when I got home to RECORD myself with my dodgy refurbished smart-phone!

Just as well that I did as I could not believe my eyes when I spotted...

1) Series of MARKS on the LENS of the NIKON P520?!

2) VOID STICKER that both Argos and Nikon UK swear is nothing to do with them as I had this before with a faulty Nikon!

3) After going STRAIGHT to friends pet store the camera is immediately set up but taking several seconds to focus, though this seems to settle down

4) In local nature park where I film and photo the camera refuses to focus and show any reticles on a half press and when pressed FULLY in desperation to get the shot either does NOT take picture or does so several seconds later when the camera is pointing at the FLOOR!!

I am sitting on the grass in disbelief that this has now happened for the third time in a row with Argos and the biggest names in camera manufacture?!

I TOLD YOU SO!!

THE MARK OF A GOOD LENS

Is NOT THIS...

Not when you breath on them and highlight the marks made by someone previously?!?!

This is photos of the lens on the Nikon P520 that I picked up as an exchange for a faulty Olympus Bridge Camera which was itself an exchange for a FAULTY Nikon Coolpix!!

You would think if they were going to rip off the public with refurbished goods they would at least do it well and at least clean the fecking lenses?!?!

LMAO...

FANTASTIC NIKON BUT...TROUBLE IN PARADISE

Right OK now I have been out and tested the new Nikon and guess what?

PROBLEMS!

This is really annoying as it is not MUCH of a problem but I have had enough of problems and you have to ask yourself if it will get worse?!

Sometimes I half press the SHUTTER RELEASE to focus before FRAMING and nothing happens!! I release and then try again and NOTHING HAPPENS. I get fed up and press it the whole way and NOTHING HAPPENS. Well the last one is not quite accurate as about 5 seconds or so later it then takes a photograph?!

Example ...

Here is a shot of three aircraft in the sky...

Now here is the one where I attempted to zoom in...half pressed twice...got fed up pressed to take a picture, waited for seveal seconds and dropped my arm to give up and it took a photo of the path I was walking on?!

Otherwise it makes the Olympus look like it has NOT WORKED from the first day I had it!!...

 

Now these are the first few shots and in very bad light with a camera system I am not familiar with and yet they are STUNNING. On days with light like this and when I owned the Olympus SP-820UZ I would probably not leave the house with it some days and certainly would not cycle for 20 miles getting photos...

...that will NOT be the case here.

It also took time when first set up to focus, about twice as long as the Olympus, which initially pissed me off as it meant it would have to go back....AGAIN!!!

I had the Nikon D3100 in my hands and I did tell them at the store that if I then went and bought TWO LENSES, if I even HAD THE CASH, and the camera went wrong I would be livid.

The smaller Lowepro case that fitted the Olympus like a glove, the one I now call the PUKEY camera case it I puked all over it, is too small for this camera.

I also now have no less than EIGHT Rechargeable AA Batteries and a Energizer charger I have little use for as like my other Nikons this uses its own proprietary battery! Meaning I will now have to purchase another battery which will then be a waste of cash if I change the camera again?!

Thus far there has been nothing n the way of allowances of all this extra expenditure nor the time and the photo opportunities I have lost.

I am afraid to say that this highlights exactly what is wrong with the United Kingdom as many want to cast judgement, point fingers, keep their jobs and salaries and yet there is nothing in the way of understanding nor is the any offer of something for the trouble and money spent.

In February this year of 2013 I bought a Nikon L810 Coolpix for £120. This was faulty immediately and I then changed it but had to pay an extra £110 to get something else. This turned out to be the Olympus SP-820UX I was intially over the moon with but failed to realise that THIS was faulty form day one. Early on there was a loud noise when focusing and zooming but thought it just lesser quality than the two Nikons I had previously?! Now I have paid out another £70 and have this wonderful Nikon P520 Coolpix with some fantastic features I wanted all along that will help me IMPROVE my content on all my blogs and my YouTube account no end.

As I told them in store that getting a third one would be disastrous as this would be akin to three strikes in baseball?! Don't ask it was the first thing I could think of!

I was already apprehensive about the camera because when I un-boxed it, oh yeah I forgot I did a video of that, I noticed marks on the lens looking like skin marks. As I used a micro-fibre cloth to clean the marks away I then realised that bloody VOID sticker was on the box?!

Now for those paying attention both Argos and Nikon claim that the VOID sticker is NOTHING to do with them?! I posted the email from Nikon claiming that not a single box in their entire building regardless of where in the range we are talking about, i.e. COST, not ONE box has ANY stickers over the edging on the TOP of the boxes. So not them then!

But Argos claim that this sticker has nothing to do with them either but DID lay laim to the one that covered the VOID sticker that stated Argos Quality Control on it! Well they did not have much of a choice now did they as it did say 'ARGOS' in big red letters and like I said to the chap that spent an hour on the phone stating all their goods are brand new and NOT returns or refurbished stock, yeah heard the BEFORE from Shop Direct and it was BOLLOCKS then and it is BOLLOCKS NOW!

So what is one supposed to do?

Argos are clearly selling really shoddy electrical goods, and I had a crowd of people listening in on my claims to the staff in store, as are Shop Direct and no doubt others too?!

The absolute arrogance you get when you basically tell them too and they think that as they have wasted the most productive months of someone trying to work and make a career for himself that a series of apologies is all that is needed and then go and sell me more of their CRAP!

I never thought in a million years that they would be STUPID enough to do this to the same person three times in a row?!

I feel sorry for the staff that work in store as they are totally unaware to what they are party to, not anymore I can tell you.

I can also tell you this and that is the term AUTHORISED DEALER is not worth a wet.... day out with your dog! LMAO! AS now I w8ill email NIKON UK yet again with what has just happened and I bet I get no reply whatsoever?!

LMAO!