Where to buy Canon original accessories ??

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The original boxes with some accessories of my new purchase. 7D Mk2 and 24 70 F4IS were taken by somebody from my front porch. (My bad. I put the Canon boxes inside a snow thrower box. The big box was left outside the front porch pending sorting for disposal and it was gone in an hour)

Now, I just have the camera and lens plus chargers and caps. Everything else is gone.

I am looking to buy back whatever is missing. I have emailed Canon e-store but have not received reply from them. Any suggestions where to buy back the missing cable protector, USB cable, disc, lens hood, lens pouch and others.

Thanks for any experience shared.

[ebiggs1]

"Bad experience using 3rd party ebay cheap item. Some are poor quality and won't fit very well."

Totally agree.  Most of that stuff isn't worth the shipping cost.  Certainly not worth the risk of failure when it counts most.

[Skirball]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

"Bad experience using 3rd party ebay cheap item. Some are poor quality and won't fit very well."

Certainly not worth the risk of failure when it counts most.

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Yeah, I know a guy who had lens hood failure once.  Poor guy never made it out alive.  All because he didn't want to spend $59.95 on a piece of plastic.  Poor schmuck.

[RobertTheFat]

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@Skirball wrote:

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

"Bad experience using 3rd party ebay cheap item. Some are poor quality and won't fit very well."

Certainly not worth the risk of failure when it counts most.

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Yeah, I know a guy who had lens hood failure once.  Poor guy never made it out alive.  All because he didn't want to spend $59.95 on a piece of plastic.  Poor schmuck.

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One compromise between getting your pocket picked and having a lens hood sever an artery is to order generic equipment from one of the big stores, like B&H. They may not be as cheap as E-Bay, but you can usually return anything you don't like.

[ebiggs1]

Bob from Boston,

Don't get me wrong.  I am all for saving money when I can.  And, yes, B&H is great.  I was not meaning to limit this to just lens hoods which are really not all that deadly.  But some guys are just cheap.  You are actually buying the gears for your clients.

[Skirball]

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@RobertTheFat wrote:

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@Skirball wrote:

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

"Bad experience using 3rd party ebay cheap item. Some are poor quality and won't fit very well."

Certainly not worth the risk of failure when it counts most.

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Yeah, I know a guy who had lens hood failure once.  Poor guy never made it out alive.  All because he didn't want to spend $59.95 on a piece of plastic.  Poor schmuck.

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One compromise between getting your pocket picked and having a lens hood sever an artery is to order generic equipment from one of the big stores, like B&H. They may not be as cheap as E-Bay, but you can usually return anything you don't like.

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Absolutely agree; can't remember last time I bought something off eBay.  Amazon, however, I use weekly.

I was meerly poking some fun, since Biggsy is so black and white on the generic issue.  I own and use plenty of generic equipment, and I'm 100% satisfied with it.  But I don't blindly buy it, and I don't assume all third party vendors are the same.  There are also things where I would only by big brand.  And, to be fair, there are times that the big brand fails too.  Nothing is perfect, and just because something costs more doesn't mean it's always better.

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Just an update : received an email reply from Canon today