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All's well that ends well
BTW...what's a "Cheque"?
My interpretation...
Wire transfer goes into Adorama account holding area. Later, a human being looks at it and for whatever reason (suspicious due to no address...or maybe they just hate money or don't like customers from your state) decides to not accept to deposit it, maybe even after input from a supervisor (ie refuses it). Then, that human being or even another person, starts the process to wire it back to your bank. This maybe takes a day or 2 or 3. When you call (angry worried upset etc), you talk to someone who doesn't have all the correct facts or doesn't explain it well to you.
Perhaps not the greatest customer service to you since they certainly didn't have answers that made you comfortable or happy. Sometimes stating something that is not correct is not lying (I see this all the time and it is usually due to ignorance).
Being one state away, I might have gotten a cashiers check and taken a one day trip to NYC.
+1
I wouldn't personally trust any bank to wire 20k+. I'd much rather go withdraw the money in non-sequential un-marked $20 bills, and go shop personally at Adorama. Think how many people would post your picture at various places as you open the brief case at the cashier and hand over sh**load of money. Your 15 minutes of fame.
LOL...I tried that once with a briefcase full of Monopoly money. My fame only lasted 15 seconds till they caught on
edit-$27,000 in $20 would be 1,350 bills; hence the cashier's check for safety and convenience
WE WANT BETTER PIXELS
NOT JUST MORE OF THEM!
I know that in my field, software development, the project invariably ends up costing twice what the experts thought, and more like 5x-10x what an non-expert would think. So i'd say to take whatever you think it cost and multiply by 4x or more, and that's probably what it actually cost. However unlikely it seems to me right now. $50,000,000 to develop a lens? That sure seems crazy to me. But if lens development is anything like software development, it's probably true.
I'm just wildly guessing here without any actual knowledge, but let's say a hypothetical project team of 4 optics designers, 4 mechanical engineers, 4 electronics engineers+programmers, 4 testers, a half-dozen managers, a dozen other misc support+manufacturing+marketing people. That's about 35 people there, for say 2 years each. Let's say average cost/year at $400K per person for salary+benefits+equipment. Now we're already at $28,000,000 development costs here. And i don't think i've even included prototype build costs.
Woo hoo, my first post!
I often hear the statement that cannon will not come out with a lower or mid range version of a product because it will cut into sales of the top of the line unit. I couldn't disagree more.... it's the millions of lower end units that keeps the lights on, not the hundreds of top-of-the-line units. If the logic were true, then Canon would only make 1Dx's and $10,000 primes.... get rid of the p/s cameras because they cut into 1DX sales....You know what I mean! A new version with exceptional sharpness (just like 200-400's sharpness in comparison to 400 f/2.8's as Roger Cicala mentioned) will affect sales of 200-400. True some determined professionals will prefer the f/4 but many may choose the new 100-400 if portability is of paramount importance (we all grow older). On the other hand I guess the new 100-400 would sell extremely well!!!
So, the one that is twice as fast and heavier with a more tank-like build won't sell as well, except to dedicated professionals - so why should Canon make the cheaper one that would sell extremely well? Remind me...why is there a 5DIII? Because my initial statement could just as well describe the 1D X.
There's a place for both...
As usual, performance increase is not proportional to price increase. Its really difficult to get a significant performance increase.
The predecessor to my 100-400 was a Sigma 150-500 which is, basically, a piece of junk
