hi, just wondering does anyone of you guys here had sell or bought items from this shop? had a bad experience with him when selling my 3 weeks old X100F to him today.
called him last week to ask for price evaluation and he said RM3500, i dont mind losing 500 as i bought it at 4k. I bought it in brown but didnt quite like the brown and wanted to change it to black.
so today i decided to bring the cam over to him and even buy the x100f in black from him. So upon checking the cam he said the sticker (fujifilm) at the bottom of the cam doesnt look right as it doesnt look three weeks old and asked me where i bought it from. I actually bought it from Altech which is also at Times Square, he put it to me that Altech sold me a used unit as brand new even when i provided him with a receipt of purchase. I mean some dealers will bad mouth competitors but not to the extend of saying they sell second unit as brand new..wtf
so long story short as i was in a hurry he offered 3300, i agreed as already pissed off and wanna give myself a solid excuse not to buy from this Chua again... mind you it happened to me few times already..
and just now he advertised in mudah the cam that i sold to him as used 1 month unit..

https://www.mudah.my/Fujifilm+x100f+digital...y+-72225611.htm

so no harm done .. he paid me in cash for my cam and he can sell whatever price that he wants...i also wish him well in his business, just wanna share my experience only... thank you for reading

had bad experience with him as well, offered super low trade in prices for my canon lenses (24mm,50mm and 85mm prime)

i know that the 24mm had minor fungus issue but the 50mm and 85mm are easily clean enough other than some dust specks. he insisted than all of my lenses are infested by fungus and the 24mm even had to go through recalibration. Fine i did not want to argue so much as i wanted to trade them in for a Tamron 24-70mm from them and he told me he had to send them for cleaning.

and guess what, the next day i saw him advertising the lenses for sale on mudah as "good condition" "no fungus no dust" at normal prices (rm600+ for the 24mm, rm800+ for the 50mm and rm800+ for the 85mm).

very shady shop and i avoided them at all cost since this incident.

I heard from other photography thread members also got complain about him.. but one thing for sure his new prices are quite cheap I have to give him that... maybe his strategy is advertise new stuffs cheaper than competitor and when you trade in.. he tekan on your gears...I am pretty sure those that dealt with him won't deal again.. I know I won't that's for sure.. good day..

This guy has misleading ads on his page, would not buy.

I enquired for a lens worth rm900(description mentioned good condition, fungus free). Arrived at his shop and showed him the exact item he posted in mudah only to tell me that the rm900 is actually of a poorer quality(minor fungus/haze), and that the clean copy is rm1200.

wow many tricks up his sleeves... as for myself i've checked the cam so that it doesn't have scratches and that all accessories are in the box before selling to him so that i can get the price that he quoted.. cannot imagine he used the sticker worn out excuse to cut another 200 from me.. worm...

my experience with ACCE Camera for few years was good.
most of the time i go there if only
i) i pre-order stuff and confirm that stock is ready for me
a few friends did say they had issue with the shop, pre-order but lambat sampai, while other stores already has their stock.

ii) sell equipment for cash
he used to offer a price, then when inspection may reduce the buying price depend on condition & accesories that comes with it.
etc : camera set comes with box, charger, cables, etc. missing any of those will cost u moneh

know your stuff people. research for the market price & expect that shop will buy with intention to sell back at the market price. so value of ur equipment will definitely be lower than u selling it yourself.

iii) trade ins
continue from (ii), this is the best reason to buy here, he usually take higher value for trade ins than cash.

all traders are suppose to buy your items at the lowest value so they can make profits.

i sold alot gear to him

d610, body 9/10, sc36k, rm2500 (and he re-sell 3500)
nikon 24mm f2.8d, 7/10, rm500
nikon 50 1.4g, 7/10, rm700
nikon 85 1.8g, 9.9/10, use like 5 times or less, rm900
nikon 18-35 f3.5-5.6, 9/10, use less than 6 months, rm1200
samyang 85 1.5t, 9.9/10, use like 5 times or less, rm700

anyhow his price better than another shop at TSquare.

bought sony a7ii and he give best price.
a6000 used, new sigma 30mm f1.4, d800e used, a7 kitlens taken from a7iii

altech sold me faulty 50mm art at rm2700
said to be under sigma waranty but cant be use.
the focus is off both side. (left front focus, middle sharp, right back focus) wont notice so much if do portrait mode.

anyway ace camera trade in price still better than other shops despite he is making huge profit out of your gear

he is better than other shop la. now thinking to resell all sony to get z6 from his shop.

or trade in.

go go
@cypixels also doing the same today 

in head still thinking about getting high resolution bang.

since i was corrupted by d800e resolution. feeling sad with 24mp.

no need so high res
24mp is good enough for everything

why you all butthurt already then only post here? if you knew you were getting a bad deal then agree to the conditions what else is there to complain? 3-4 of you guys/girls excuse is that you are rushing so decide to close the deal... that does not even make sense and is actually financially irresponsible ... at your own expense

WTF!
how much the trader want to sell/profit has nothing to do with how much the trader buy from u.....

u agreed on the trade in price then rant here and blame the trader?
are u kidding me?

when u buy u no wan cheap? the trader buy from u, he buy also of cos wan cheap

seriously there is so many camera shop out there if the trade in price is not good just say no, not very hard wat

really dumb.. didn't read thread aah.. or blind? i think blind...

Well they are sharing their experience on the issue though

Still don't justify the occasional unethical/illegal practices of the shopkeeper as well

unethical maybe, illegal highly doubt so.
At the end of the day one party decides to walk away or take the deal. It was not like the guy held a knife to his/her neck or something like that. Maybe if I ever go to this seller i might be a little more careful, but my advise is to treat every transaction with care and dont make "I was rushing/short of time/etc" an excuse.

lol im blind?
either u contradict urself or u use sarcasm. y dun u read again wat u wrote huh?

unethical maybe, illegal highly doubt so.
At the end of the day one party decides to walk away or take the deal. It was not like the guy held a knife to his/her neck or something like that. Maybe if I ever go to this seller i might be a little more careful, but my advise is to treat every transaction with care and dont make "I was rushing/short of time/etc" an excuse.

Read above on not honouring words. It is clearly an attempt to cheat people. Say one thing, when go to shop do another.

Fyi illegal = against the law

It's illegal to cheat/mislead the customer, ie saying it's full of fungus, and then go on to sell it saying there's none.

There's a whole consumer act on this.
Need I share it again on lowyat?

Just because it's a person's mistake to accept a bad deal, doesn't make the shop keeper absolve from responsibility. The person might be foolish, but the shopkeeper just pulled an illegal act, and there's that.

Fine and dandy then. You guys will need to educate OP on consumer act and how to lodge a report then.
But before you do that think about what your argument will be at the Tribunal... nothing is stopping the shop owner from buying the lens, clean the fungus off and list as dust and fungus free next day - and there goes your argument. If you as the lens seller think that the shop owner is talking bull, just say thanks and walk off. its the same thing when someone wants to sell you ubat kuat lelaki at the back alley - you will think he is crazy and walk off right?

Regarding honouring words - in the mudah/FB marketplace/carosell listing, tell me where in the T&C  that says listings is contractually bound to be true and accurate. even the best companies will say in one legal jargon or another "to the best of effort" when it comes to listing products and services. I am sure a lot of us had this experience with sellers and not only with camera gear...

The part where I said was "not illegal" is my mistake. But what I am saying is:
Don't make an excuse that you were rushing/<any otherwise excuses > for closing a bad deal and then say that anyone cheated you - that is butthurt.

At the end of the day complain as much as you all want and the willingness for you to take this to the police/tribunal, it does take IQ and a level of intelligence to buy and sell. Even if it is illegal there will be people out there to cheat you. Because guess what; that is the reality. So save yourself the trouble and learn to avoid it in the first place. If anyone thinks the above does not make sense well I don't have anything else left to say.

Fine and dandy then. You guys will need to educate OP on consumer act and how to lodge a report then.
But before you do that think about what your argument will be at the Tribunal... nothing is stopping the shop owner from buying the lens, clean the fungus off and list as dust and fungus free next day - and there goes your argument. If you as the lens seller think that the shop owner is talking bull, just say thanks and walk off. its the same thing when someone wants to sell you ubat kuat lelaki at the back alley - you will think he is crazy and walk off right?

Regarding honouring words - in the mudah/FB marketplace/carosell listing, tell me where in the T&C  that says listings is contractually bound to be true and accurate. even the best companies will say in one legal jargon or another "to the best of effort" when it comes to listing products and services. I am sure a lot of us had this experience with sellers and not only with camera gear...

maybe i should forward this link to chua .. maybe if he wants he can defend himself here.. i mean there's always two side to a story....or if he doesn't care then so be it...

he will allways tekan when you sell your gear..
he insisted that my canon 50mm USM had haze but I'm sure there was none.
since I don't understand mandarin or hokkien or cantonese or whatever  language that they were speaking in, they pretty sure had a long one.
senang² dia jual balik 800 without cleaning after tekan 600

he will allways tekan when you sell your gear..
he insisted that my canon 50mm USM had haze but I'm sure there was none.
since I don't understand mandarin or hokkien or cantonese or whatever  language that they were speaking in, they pretty sure had a long one.
senang² dia jual balik 800 without cleaning after tekan 600

Hi. Anyone know that altech camera open ? Did anyone buy  anything from the new shop? Pls advised.

Yeah they are reliable. At least a lot better than stchua

altech and acce is different shop?
i bought from altech before, not bad lah. the boss willing to slash price for me without me asking.

Hi. Anyone know that altech camera open ? Did anyone buy  anything from the new shop? Pls advised.

I didn't know there's this Acce Camera thread. Since it existed, let me share a story of my incident.

Topic - Stchua sold a USED unit Nikon Z6 as NEW unit to me.

Yes. I knew about Stchua bullshit lies and tekan skill etc. But I've never expect he will be this daring selling a USED as NEW to me.
This happened at the end of June. I was sourcing around for New Nikon Z6 around few different camera stores and Stchua is selling at the best price of RM7400. I've contacted him and confirmed there's a last unit for RM7400. Booked it and went all the way to Time Square to get the unit.

Upon arrival, I have a feeling things not gonna be right. They took the Z6 and easily opening it up without double confirmed whether am I purchasing it. The unbox moment, I realized the plastic packaging doesn't look like out from factory, the New Z6 unit has some dust on it(weird rightttt). But I was excited for the New Z6, I just let it go, accepted the unit and tested everything fine, proceed with payment. During the testing, I borrowed a battery from them to test, hence the Z6 battery is remain unopened. Please note that all new camera comes with 5% or EMPTY battery.

Now on my way back(my gf was the one driving), i was too excited, so didn't bother about low battery left. I still loaded it into the Z6 and powered it up. GUESS WHAT, the battery was 75% charged. My mind goes like "Huh? why the hell a new unit battery is charged?". Still excited and carries on doing the setting then noticed the Z6 is running on latest firmware with Eye Auto Focus enabled(New Z6 suppose to be running on old firmware without Eye Auto Focus feature and disabled). Again "Dafuq why this unit updated huh? Well, save my job from upgrading firmware".

Gotten home, shoot shoot around but my feeling tells me something is not right. Then I noticed that Z6 battery has a custom Nikon Z6 sticker on it. This was the time in my mind "Wow since when Nikon provide a written "Nikon Z6" sticker on battery. At this point of time, I took out the XQD card, and check on the shutter count and BOOMMMMMM. My Z6 first click at Stchua shop was 764 !!!!!!

I took a short video of the shutter count check and whatsapp to Stchua. The reason he gave me was "I didn't know about that, my supplier told me is a new unit". Okay fine, he told me will meet me the next night to swap a new unit.

Next day, during the evening, I message to check with him about the meet up in Puchong as agreed, then he started giving me reason that he's very busy and can't leave the shop. At this point of time, I know his bullshit is here again. My photography circle of friends already warned me about his FFK skill. I still kinda chill to deal with him because I want back a new unit. So he proposed to meet on the next following day again in the morning.

Next following day morning, called him to meet at 930am. Here come his bullshit reason again, he told me that his wife drove his car out, can only meet in the evening, so I told him, how about I go your shop and meet you. He said in the evening 5pm, I agreed and ended the call. Then I started thinking what kind of bullshit he will do next. I went to Mudah and check on his page, realized he posted a new unit Z6 selling at RM7800. This point of time, I knew he will not swap and wanna drag till I lost patience and just use the "new" Z6. I called him and said I will go to his house and meet him, and the reason he gave "the unit is in the car and my wife drove it out".  At this point, I didn't want to tolerate further, I said I will go to his shop and change during lunch time and deal with his partner Calvin. Immediately he got triggered saying "This business is so stress that I don't want to do anymore. So hard to deal with you guys. I return you the money and you return me the unit, I come Puchong meet you now, I go borrow car from my father in law". Time set and deal. Yes he turned up and return me the cash.

I've deal a lot of used unit of lenses with him and knowing his bullshit skill well but I never expect that he's daring to do this for a New Unit Camera Body.
A very unfortunate event but also fortunate that I've experience purchasing new body to find out about this problem and get back the money.

Below are few things to take note for purchasing new unit from any store:
1. Battery comes at 5%-- or empty.
2. Camera firmware usually old version.
3. Packaging is neat and tidy

I didn't know there's this Acce Camera thread. Since it existed, let me share a story of my incident.

Topic - Stchua sold a USED unit Nikon Z6 as NEW unit to me.

Yes. I knew about Stchua bullshit lies and tekan skill etc. But I've never expect he will be this daring selling a USED as NEW to me.
This happened at the end of June. I was sourcing around for New Nikon Z6 around few different camera stores and Stchua is selling at the best price of RM7400. I've contacted him and confirmed there's a last unit for RM7400. Booked it and went all the way to Time Square to get the unit.

Upon arrival, I have a feeling things not gonna be right. They took the Z6 and easily opening it up without double confirmed whether am I purchasing it. The unbox moment, I realized the plastic packaging doesn't look like out from factory, the New Z6 unit has some dust on it(weird rightttt). But I was excited for the New Z6, I just let it go, accepted the unit and tested everything fine, proceed with payment. During the testing, I borrowed a battery from them to test, hence the Z6 battery is remain unopened. Please note that all new camera comes with 5% or EMPTY battery.

Now on my way back(my gf was the one driving), i was too excited, so didn't bother about low battery left. I still loaded it into the Z6 and powered it up. GUESS WHAT, the battery was 75% charged. My mind goes like "Huh? why the hell a new unit battery is charged?". Still excited and carries on doing the setting then noticed the Z6 is running on latest firmware with Eye Auto Focus enabled(New Z6 suppose to be running on old firmware without Eye Auto Focus feature and disabled). Again "Dafuq why this unit updated huh? Well, save my job from upgrading firmware".

Gotten home, shoot shoot around but my feeling tells me something is not right. Then I noticed that Z6 battery has a custom Nikon Z6 sticker on it. This was the time in my mind "Wow since when Nikon provide a written "Nikon Z6" sticker on battery. At this point of time, I took out the XQD card, and check on the shutter count and BOOMMMMMM. My Z6 first click at Stchua shop was 764 !!!!!!

I took a short video of the shutter count check and whatsapp to Stchua. The reason he gave me was "I didn't know about that, my supplier told me is a new unit". Okay fine, he told me will meet me the next night to swap a new unit.

Next day, during the evening, I message to check with him about the meet up in Puchong as agreed, then he started giving me reason that he's very busy and can't leave the shop. At this point of time, I know his bullshit is here again. My photography circle of friends already warned me about his FFK skill. I still kinda chill to deal with him because I want back a new unit. So he proposed to meet on the next following day again in the morning.

Next following day morning, called him to meet at 930am. Here come his bullshit reason again, he told me that his wife drove his car out, can only meet in the evening, so I told him, how about I go your shop and meet you. He said in the evening 5pm, I agreed and ended the call. Then I started thinking what kind of bullshit he will do next. I went to Mudah and check on his page, realized he posted a new unit Z6 selling at RM7800. This point of time, I knew he will not swap and wanna drag till I lost patience and just use the "new" Z6. I called him and said I will go to his house and meet him, and the reason he gave "the unit is in the car and my wife drove it out".  At this point, I didn't want to tolerate further, I said I will go to his shop and change during lunch time and deal with his partner Calvin. Immediately he got triggered saying "This business is so stress that I don't want to do anymore. So hard to deal with you guys. I return you the money and you return me the unit, I come Puchong meet you now, I go borrow car from my father in law". Time set and deal. Yes he turned up and return me the cash.

I've deal a lot of used unit of lenses with him and knowing his bullshit skill well but I never expect that he's daring to do this for a New Unit Camera Body.
A very unfortunate event but also fortunate that I've experience purchasing new body to find out about this problem and get back the money.

Below are few things to take note for purchasing new unit from any store:
1. Battery comes at 5%-- or empty.
2. Camera firmware usually old version.
3. Packaging is neat and tidy

I did report this case to Nikon Professional Service's Manager, however they can only take note of this issue but nothing much can be done. Reason is because Stchua is not Nikon Authorized Reseller. Beside that, Nikon's distributor can distribute the stock to any reseller despite authorized and non authorized as it's an open market.

Stchua business target audience are more on the secondary school student on around the city centre. Hence, he's willing to accept trade-in at higher rate(If you know how to deal with him) and resell at low value, as long as he can clear the stock fast, maybe the earning is as low as RM200 which I've witnessed before.

Selling used as new unit chances is actually very low I would say. He was lucky able to do that because the user trade in the Nikon set along with all the free gifts, hence he's able to package it back as new unit. If the user did not trade in the free gift, I'm pretty sure that he's not able to do that.

You guys should be making a report to the tribunal.. Friends have made reports on other shops and had positive results. These kind of things are unacceptable and you all should take action

https://ttpm.kpdnhep.gov.my/portal/home

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