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I watched last week’s Gadget Show last night (I’m a week behind), and saw their review on the Sanyo Xacti WH1 waterproof camcorder. They listed it as “from £165″ which sounded amazing value, and considered buying it. Unfortunately it looks like they made a mistake on the price, as I couldn’t find a price anywhere near it.

I did find it at £189 however on a site I’d never heard of: Electronic Megastore electronicmegastore.com. I’m not sure what first made me wary of this site. Probably the fact it was at such a great price, and I’d never heard of the site before.

A quick Google Search came up with a page of customer reviews on Shobby. Some are great, but appear to be from similar IP addresses. The rest all talk about them being a scam run from a petrol station! This could be innocent and just a disgruntled customer/employee trying to spread rumours.

I decided to do my own investigations into the site, and have concluded that in my opinion the site is a scam, for the following reasons:

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I’ve bought myself a lovely new Nikon D40 DSLR camera – it arrived on Tuesday. Unfortunately I was tight and ordered a memory card from MyMemory, which is cheaper, but it takes longer to arrive. This means I can’t use it which is really annoying!

I’ll report more on it when I can actually play with it!

Update (11:14): The memory card has arrived, I’ve had a quick play, but I must resist otherwise my customers won’t be too happy!