%$!*%$!! at Adorama and the Post Office

[Igor Roshchin]

I gave up on _any_ mail-order photo printing services after
I had a piece of my film negatives lost, and when couple times
I received a piece of somebody's else negative with mine.
(the films were quite clearly different in their color gamma, 
as I liked shooting Agfa, and the other piece was Kodak).
So, I am always trying to use the local print shop.

When I lived in NYC, Adorama was within walking distance,
After trying a few other labs first,
I tried Adorama, and liked it, and then found there a master whose 
vision of printing from negatives was close to mine. 
So, I was using Adorama, and was happy with it. 
The overall customer service and the attitude was what I would call
typical for New York City: "business-tense", but living there you
get used to it, and get surprised if you get anything better then that.

Once I moved to the West Coast, I tried to continue using Adorama via
mail, but there was some type of mixup, and I stoped after couple times.
I tried a few labs locally, and found the one which does a good job
(ChromeDigital), even though the lab is not ideal: they are open
8:30am-5pm weekdays, and closed on weekends.

Igor


On Jun 15, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Bill Lawlor wrote:

> I ordered some 16X20 prints from Adoramapix for the Marin County  
> Fair Photo
> Contest. Entries were due today. Two weeks ago Adorama assured me I  
> would
> have the prints in a week. A few days ago, starting to worry, I  
> checked the
> tracking number with the post office which sai they were delivered  
> to my
> house. After calls to NY and the post office I gave up. Yesterday a  
> box
> arrived on my porch.Hurray the Prints!. When I opened it they were  
> wrecked.
> The box was VERY flimsy and somebody had stood on the box. I am  
> going back
> to Pictopia.com for prints. More expensive, but they use mailing  
> tubes.
> Bill Lawlor
>
>