I shouldn't even be thinking about buying a camera like this, but I'm occasionally bumping into an insanely low price, like here for $999. Other sites show the price as high as 4K. How can the price range 3K?

http://www.expresscameras.com/prodetails.asp?prodid=646745&start=1

it doesnt. it's a scam bait and switch vendor.

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