Broadway Camera & Electronics

I broke my iPhone 5 data cable (it suffered a horrible drop from my butter fingers while plugged into the phone) and I needed to buy a new one. All of the CVS stores within walking distance were sold out of cables and I didn’t feel like going all the way down to the Apple store to purchase one. So I went to the closest camera and electronics shop I could find. I walk into the store and inquired about a iPhone 5 charger. I was directed to the back where they had a cable and a power adapter for $ 49.99!!! I said I only needed the cable, well you can have that for $ 29.99! Then I asked, you got any cheaper ones? He peeled off the $ 29.99 sticker and said, yeah this one is $ 19.99. What? Did they just freaking make up prices on the spot? I guess so. I still think $ 19.99 was a little steep as I could get this on Amazon prime for half the price but given it was Time Square, I didn’t really have a choice. So I chalked over the $ 20 bucks and I will never come back.
Huuuuuuge warning based on these reviews. You better watch out because they could rip you off.

I was in New York during the weekend of Sept 13 and went into Broadway Camera and Electronics. I offer you a stern warning to avoid these conniving, lying crooked thieves. I went in to purchase a memory card for my camera. First of all, they grossly overcharged me for what I wanted but to add insult to injury, when I arrived back to my event which was NY Fashion Week to load the memory card into the camera, I found that the packaging had been tampered with. The package perforation which is normally not so easy to get into, just easily peeled open. The memory card was a Transcend 600×32gb a card which should have come with a recovery download file which had been removed.
The average cost for this disc online and in other stores was about $ 22. These thieves charged me said it was $ 199 but was selling it to me for $ 119. After taxes and all my card was charged $ 140
The second incident was them showing me a digital zoom lens which supposedly increases peripheral field of view by 48% and claimed it originally cost over $ 699 but because of 30−70% discount this lens would cost only $ 329. He showed me one for attached to a Nikon D3200 and it appeared to do as he said it would. I had informed him that I had a Nikon D600 and the salesperson told a co-​worker to pull a similar one down for my camera but then he be speaking in his native language. And the co-​worker switched the lens for yet another box which looked similar. The salesman proceeded to explain how this lens would do the same for my camera as the lens on D3200 that I tested. Long story short, once I purchased the item thinking I may have gotten something I’d been looking for but wasn’t shipping for at that moment, I arrived him to find that I had purchased a useless paper weight. This, item is not worth $ 5 much less the $ 329 I was swindled out of. People please don’t be fooled by these con artist. I felt like such a fool. I not only let them get me once but twice. I’m a novice photographer and my husband normally shops for all the electronic equipment. I’ll make sure he does so in the future.

DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM THESE CROOKS! These slime balls had the nerve to rip off my 16 year old daughter who went in to purchase an SD card for her camera. She asked to see one behind the counter and they quickly ripped the package open and installed it in her camera. She felt uneasy because she saw a sign that said opened merchandise could not be returned so she felt obligated to buy it. She asked how much, they told her $ 40. They rang up her credit card, asked her to sign the receipt with the amount covered up. She walked out of the store and immediately noticed a charge of $ 149 on the receipt and went back to tell them that they told her it was $ 40. They refused to refund her money!!! The adult who was with her went in to demand the money back and they said that they would give her a $ 30 refund or she could use the full value to exchange it for something else. My daughter called me in tears so I sent my husband to the store (we were right upstairs in the hotel) and as soon as they saw him coming they agreed to refund the full $ 149. When my husband asked them why they would charge $ 149 for a $ 19 SD card, they responded that this was Times Square so we should expect to pay more. They then tried to argue their point by asking, «how much do you pay for you hotel room on Times Square»? WTF!!! We went into many stores on Times Square (Forever 21, Toys r Us) and did not see a markup of, well I can’t even do the math it’s so high.
These people should be ashamed of themselves preying on young girls and I’m sure everybody that steps foot in their store. It makes me sick to think of all of the people who have been ripped off by these pathetic CROOKS!
STAY AWAY FROM BROADWAY CAMERA & ELECTRONICS!!!

Buyers beware!!! Like the experiences noted here by others for Broadway Cameras and Electronics, these people are thieves!!! Yesterday I stopped in to buy a Nikon chargeable battery and was ushered to the back counter and ripped off. The salesperson and entire Broadway staff work with each other and are all part of this scam. Unfortunately, I had not read the reviews otherwise, I would have never stepped one foot in their establishment as they are scam artists and have no positive feedback on any website. Its people like these that give NYC a bad name.
I have two complaints regarding Broadway Camera for misrepresentation of product and warranties, quality issues as follows:
Broadway Camera ripped me off this week and refuses to refund my money nor work with me to come to a resolution. While on vacation, I stopped in the shop to inquire about buying a replacement Nikon rechargeable battery. I asked how much and was told $ 79.00., which is not too far above the actual market value of a Nikon EN-​EL 14, so I agreed to continue our discussions. Typically one can purchase a brand new replacement NIKON battery from $ 50 — $ 70 depending on retailer. Being in Times Square, I expected to pay a little higher than market value but never expected to pay $ 50 higher and expected to receive a product that was new in package and was functional. While the salesman was installing the battery he pulls out a New in Package NIKON battery which matched my NIKON 5200 battery that needed replacement. Once he opened the package, the new NIKON battery he installed did not function, so he yells out to another salesperson «get me a charged battery for Nikon 5200.» The second salesman pulls from his drawer an unpackaged battery and quickly installs it into my camera ensuring he had shown me the battery full charge indicator. During this process, I never saw the battery he installed until later when I returned to the hotel only to discover that he had switched out the battery from NIKON name brand to an Energizer battery that did not hold its charge. Prior to the purchase I had asked him specifically about the battery brand and he deceived me. The battery installed in my camera did not hold its charge untypical for a brand new battery. I had gone to a show that afternoon and had not taken any photos and my camera was inoperable. Aside from the fact that a bait and switch occurred, the battery given to me was used and not a NIKON brand that I had requested and was quoted. He quoted me for a NIKON battery but installed a cheaper, lower quality brand and I overpaid by $ 40 — $ 50.
Once he completed the battery bait and switch, a third sales man signals him and he grabs my personal camera and says «you need this brand new lens to take pics of NYC.» Without asking permission, he takes my camera and installs a lens that he represents to be a brand new NIKON lens product that they just got into stock with a market value was $ 899. He briefly shows me the box so I could see the price and tells me that I could purchase the lens for half price and offers to sell it to me for $ 499. The entire time he represents it as a NIKON telephoto wide angle lens with macro function that could take far way photos and bring the objects very close as well as take close up photos without the need for a flash. He never deviates from the discussion that product was not a NIKON and never tells me that this so called lens was an off– brand. Additionally, he never tests the compatibility to ensure it would work with my equipment; only has me look into my lens with his attachment to try to prove to me how it might function. I trusted the fact that it was NIKON equipment so never questioned whether or not my camera auto function would read his attachment.
I tell him that I don’t have a budget to buy any lens as only need the battery so he lets up on his high pressure misleading sales presentation only to get me to the counter to be manipulated by a fourth person (ring leader). This man agrees to let me have the battery free if I buy the so-​called lens for a total of $ 381 dollars. Being that I thought I was buying NIKON equipment at this point, that price seemed fair at the time until I took my purchases to my friend (a professional photographer) who informed me that I had been taken and that I DID NOT BUY A LENS and that what I had purchased was an macro fish lens attachment that costs less than $ 50. Once I left the store I tried to take some shots and the camera auto function would not engage as it turns out that I had purchased off brand equipment that was not compatible with my NIKON camera and would not focus or operate. The photographer brought out a camera catalog to show me the true market value of the battery and also told me that I did not have NIKON equipment nor did the store sell me a lens. What they represented as a lens (which could cost $ 300 or more) was a macro fish lens attachment and NOT a tele-​photo lens. Learn from my mistake.

I am shocked by this store! Crooks, scam, catastrophe! They tried to sell me a mini USB cable in 40 $!! (Which is insane, should cost 8 $ top).
Later on I was unfortunate to hear that they sold my father (doesn’t understand a thing in tech) google chrome cast in 220 dollars! They are just thieves ! Google chrome cast cost 39 dollars! On top of this, when I turned around when he tried to sell me the usb cable he made a sour face and waved the hand «Israel. Don’t sell.» Disgusting.