Keith Rock / ferndowncameras

stingOM · Expire: 2012-12-27

This guy now has his own website

http://www.rockycameras.com/index.asp

He does have some bargin lenses.

Some comments about him are not good:
http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/general-talk/73157-avoid-cowboy-ebay-seller-keith-rock-ferndowncameras-%5Bused-rockycameras%5D.html

From my own personally experience, he can be hit and miss. But if you are nice to him, any bad items usually are refunded to me via discount in my next pruchase.

peterqd · Expire: 2014-01-04

Keith Rock is a notorious bad seller Simon. We've discussed him many times, just search for Rocky. He had three different ebay IDs to keep his neg feedback looking better than it was, and now we think he has been kicked off altogether. Note there is no feedback on his website! Smile

Yes, you can sometimes get stuff from him in reasonable condition but it's pot luck as he doesn't inspect anything properly and he certainly doesn't detail defects. Just try getting an answer to emails if something goes wrong, let alone a refund!

"THIS SELLER IS A LIAR - AVOID" Smile

Mal1905 · Expire: 2011-11-18

His name is dirt around here Simon - he's burned or stung too many people over the years. He also doesn't like us too much, going so far as to call us a bunch of "self righteous arseholes with God complexes..." in one email to me...

But, revenge - as they say - is a dish best served cold, and sooner or later Keith will get his comeuppance. That's not a threat, I don't do threats. It's a fact Twisted Evil

xoxixox · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 83

nobody here have the knowledge to hack his internet site, and for example change all his prices to £0,99 I will pay for that! He! He!
this guy stole me a couple of time by the past Evil or Very Mad

mo · Expire: 2016-07-30

xoxixox · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 83

You right, but this kind of seller is(was) a very bad thing for the Ebay and Photography community. Anyway, lets the "Word of mouth" operate Wink

Fortunately there is some very great and honest sellers on the Ebay community !

pat donnelly · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:53 pm Post subject: Keith Rock

I have bought many items from "Rocky" over five or six years. Some lacked iris blades. He offered credit. I watched him sell tens of thousands of items! His feedback was a positive 60,000+ at least once. He put through so many items that only someone with impossibly high expectations could assume that everything was perfect. When asked, he was always willing to allow a credit for an item, except that the amount would be small as his postal charges from UK to Australia, were very low and he was a bulk cheap seller, so I never spent much on any item. He may have made a trading profit but it must have been a 50 hour operation at least, per week.

I have stumbled across his new site off eBay, and he has sold me a Zuiko 350mm 2.8. Paypal pending.

I will inform on how it goes.

I suggest that each of us makes up her own mind about his site and what he sells? It may be that he is selling less these days and I would expect higher prices and standards accordingly, but he is quite approachable.

One word, if you are ordering from overseas, it may be economical to buy several items together. He offers discounts. He might entertain offers on items, but the element of an auction has gone and I for one miss that! Recovering from OCD is a slow process!

cardiff_gareth · Joined: 21 Jun 2010 Posts: 136 Location: Vale of Glamorgan

Where does he get all of his gear for sale from Question

DigiChromeEd · Joined: 29 Dec 2009 Posts: 3462 Location: Northern Ireland

But, revenge - as they say - is a dish best served cold, and sooner or later Keith will get his comeuppance. That's not a threat, I don't do threats. It's a fact Twisted Evil

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Well said, bring it on! Very Happy

alex · Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 561 Location: UK

Twice bitten twice shy -- more fool me. Misrepresentation, and outright lying. Went so far as to tell me he'd tested an item on the model of camera it was sold for, and that Yashica must have changed the filter threads on the GSN midway during a production run. Indeed, they must have changed the GSN so much that it morphed into a Yashica TLR.

Eventually got a refund after a long wait, minus postage, ensuring that I paid for his mistake. Awful person to deal with, and notorious for abusive feedback, who had it in his 'terms & conditions' that he would ban from his auctions anyone who did not leave him positive feedback.

Never again.

Scheimpflug · Expire: 2011-11-18

Reading through the reviews, am I correct that a buyer can expect their items to come, it is just the condition that is suspect?

This is an important distinction for those of us scraping the bottom end... buying $5 brackets, lenses to use for the mounts, etc, etc.

DigiChromeEd · Joined: 29 Dec 2009 Posts: 3462 Location: Northern Ireland

stingOM · Expire: 2012-12-27

If you are willing to "risk" it, then you may get a bargain. I have been lucy a few times and "very unlucky" also.

alex · Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 561 Location: UK

Scheimpflug · Expire: 2011-11-18

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

I bought many times from him, I did count missing description , not as described etc. I did know he is a volume seller and impossible to sell in this volume on low price and get same quality items than more expensive ones. I remember only for one not as described item all others was bargain and good items. So based on 5-10 purchases Rocky wasn't worst than others. He has cheap offers so I not expect high class services.

pat donnelly · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:33 am Post subject:

Scheimpflug

Well said. He is acknowledged even by the most virulent, as willing to give credits. I felt this was appropriate as he certainly wasn't making much money.

I feel he might have been better off with descriptions as those of gggcam, who tells everyone who buys that the item is faulty! Not true in my experience, it is just his way of dealing with folks who expect new items at old prices!He denies all connection with Rocky... I am banned from GGGcam despite mutual good feedback, because I wanted him to combine postage, as you say, a very significant item to those of us in the "Antipodes"! He did but banned me!

We are all different and some tolerance may go a long way? I feel Rocky got his stock from local sources, but sold in $US with a view to export? He sells in sterling GBP now. Apparently he has 6,000 items on his site and 14,000 more unlisted! Cheap and cheerful?

pat donnelly · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:40 am Post subject: 350mm F 2.8 Zuiko

Well I received the cannon!! There are many technical terms for a big gun, but cannon is what it feels like! There is much to deplore about the cosmetics, but I have never worried about them, albeit I do get a thrill from gleaming metal and glass....

The glass is not perfect either, but I was aware of the blemishes to the front coating of the front lens. The heavily scratched outer front body shows where the hood has been used and this will be deep enough to protect from stray flare, but there should not be too much of an effect from the damage.

So, Rocky seems to have another satisfied customer! I will be testing it as I get the energy. It cost me $700 or so.....