Ok, I took the long way to get here... but PHEW! Was it ever worth it!…read more
Anyone who knows me, knows that I *LOVE* to take pictures! It's so bad that my family calls me "paparazzi!"
The one downfall in today's digital photography age is... that nobody gets to see the pictures! Seriously - when's the last time you gave someone photos? The most obvious way today is to share through an APP, like Facebook or Flickr, or Yelp for that matter - especially if it's a photo of food!
Ok, so I love taking pictures... Now I need to share them, and some things are best not shared with the whole wide world on the world wide web. Zoom in on another hobby of mine: Memories books! Ok, so the rest of the world calls it "Scrap-booking", but I don't think of my pix as scraps! So there. Recently doing a project, I ran out of 4X6 photo paper (yes, I print them at home!) So I went shopping at a local store, where a package of 100 sheets of 4X6 usually costs about $25.00. And guess what? I ran out of those too! However, I wanted the paper cheaper than usual... I had an old box at home that showed I had paid $19.00, but obviously prices have gone up!
So, thanks to a few friends who advised me to use a shopping APP called Flipp, I discovered that Best Buy had just what I wanted... for a mere $12.99 a box!! FABulous! So I ran out to my closest Best Buy... only to find out that they only had 2 boxes left! But other BBs had more on hand, although usually only 2 or 3 boxes. This store in "Farrhaven" isn't TOO too far from home, so after the shop in Kanata, I went there too, and picked up their last 2 boxes for the same price. I should be good with 400 prints - for now, anyway...
Except, then when I got to the checkout, the clerk was real savvy, and you know how the cash registers are these days - like a live computer. When I complained (ok just a little whine), she asked if I wanted any more, and suggested that we could shop on line. That surprised me for a couple of reasons. First of all, why didn't I think of that?? I could have done this from my own living room!* Secondly, why didn't any of the clerks at the other BB suggest the same thing?! What gives?! I put an asterisk (*) up there because I would not have got such a good bargain on so many boxes by shopping at home: there was a limit of 3 boxes when ordering on-line. Probably just as well; I ended up buying a total of 7 boxes. Really, that's 700 photos. Put it that way and it sounds like a lot! GULP!! However, I've got at least 2 more Memory books to do, and I will need these! Eventually... Also, don't forget that printer ink costs money too! But just in paper, I've saved a lot of money: the cost went from about .30 cents a piece at full price to .15 cents at this price - including taxes. Worth it, IMHO; so very worth it!
So I got really good customer service at this location. But LOOK what I had to do to get it!!!