ePHOTOzine Camera Strap

YoBellzaa (ePHOTOzine Staff)

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19 Nov 2010 - 1:41 PM

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Hello everyone, we have been selling the ePHOTOzine camera strap since July 2008. Sales have been very slow, yet everyone I speak to who has bought one says they are great and often say it's better than the one that came with their camera. Can anyone tell me why we might be struggling to sell them, priced at £4 inc. P&P I think they represent a bargain.

Cheers
Dan

Overread

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19 Nov 2010 - 2:04 PM

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If its compared to, say an OPTech strap (another popular design of neck strap) the EPZ lacks the release clips that let one remove the body of the strap when its not needed. Combine that with the fact that under the"Store" Tab the UK and US links are to external sites that don't sell the EPZ strap and I'd guess a lot of potential sales are simply lost because people don't know of the strap.

Overread

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19 Nov 2010 - 2:15 PM

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I don't know about sony but I know canon and nikon neck straps are - well - they are straps and they go round the neck -but I'm not sure comfort was ever a part of their design 3rd party padded straps are always superior (unless one always wears a scarf/high collared thick jumper)

Big Bri

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19 Nov 2010 - 2:21 PM

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I like a long strap (fnarr fnarr). The picture of the EPZ strap suggests that when hung round your neck it would rest about nipple height.

Kris_Dutson

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19 Nov 2010 - 2:30 PM

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Quote: If its compared to, say an OPTech strap (another popular design of neck strap) the EPZ lacks the release clips that let one remove the body of the strap when its not needed

Which is what I use as I don't want the strap dangling around when my camera's on a tripod, yet when I do use a strap I don't want to be faffing around threading one on.

chris.maddock

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19 Nov 2010 - 2:46 PM

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Quote: Combine that with the fact that under the"Store" Tab the UK and US links are to external sites that don't sell the EPZ strap and I'd guess a lot of potential sales are simply lost because people don't know of the strap.

Exactly - the ePZ shop has, to my recollection, never been in the site menus and still isn't. So how are people supposed to find it?

The obvious "shop" link for UK users in the menu shoots you off to Warehouse Express. OK, ePZ get, IIRC, a cut if people buy from there, but does that offset the cost of in-house stock (and storage) that people aren't buying - simply because they don't know about it.

I've raised the point several times, initially the reason given was, understandably, because it was being trialled - surely the trial must have finished by now?

I've bought stuff from the in-house shop but only because I knew about it, the prices were good and the service very quick - so why not publicise it properly?

Miles Herbert (e2 Member)

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19 Nov 2010 - 3:33 PM

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We used to sell personalised cheap straps like this, ours came with the quick release clips, but we stopped doing them when we found that the cheap ones use plastic "leather look" loop joints. We found that this would eventually break, causing your camera and lens to suddenly fall off your neck, which was a little disconcerting, so we stopped supplying them. It's an odd feeling when £3000 worth of gear hanging round your neck suddenly makes a dive for the floor ...

The Optech ones we have use proper leather on the loop joints and are a lot tougher, so we use those, and I simply don't trust the cheap ones any more ...

It's useful to have the quick release clips to take the strap off so it doesn't blow around in the breeze during long exposures on a tripod ... so that rules out the EPZ ones for me...

Toonman

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19 Nov 2010 - 3:51 PM

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If I hadn't have won one I would have bought one!