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I recently had my car in the shop for an oil change and they told me I needed about $600 worth of suspension work. I took the car to a Checkbook highly rated shop much closer to my home for a a second opinion and estimate. Their estimate was about 65% of the dealers and I was very pleased in all respects with their work, courtesy and professionalism.
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Checkbook's top rating ( ) |
Firm's price index score |
What percent of customers rated firm "superior" on our survey for "overall quality" |
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Camera Clinic
518 NE 165th St Seattle, WA
206-367-2440
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55 ratings |
Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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Cameras West
17420 Southcenter Pkwy Seattle, WA
206-575-1775
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Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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Cameras West
14309 NE 20th St Bellevue, WA
425-641-6677
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14 ratings |
Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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Cameratechs
2034 NW Market St Seattle, WA
206-782-2433
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96 ratings |
Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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Glazer's Camera Supply
430 8th Ave N Seattle, WA
206-624-1100
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28 ratings |
Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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Ken's Camera
8907 Evergreen Way Everett, WA
425-353-5533
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18 ratings |
Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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Kenmore Camera
18031 67th Ave NE Kenmore, WA
425-485-7447
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24 ratings |
Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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Kits Cameras
27111 167th Pl SE #101 Kent, WA
253-638-0132
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Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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Kits Cameras
3803 S Meridian #B Puyallup, WA
253-841-1454
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Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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Kits Cameras & One Hour
5500 Olympic Dr #A107 Gig Harbor, WA
253-858-5367
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Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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Kits Cameras One Hour Photo
12816 SE 38th St Bellevue, WA
425-641-6224
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13 ratings |
Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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Northwest Camera Repair
5130 Evergreen Way #105 Everett, WA
425-252-0932
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19 ratings |
Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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Omega Photo
1100 Bellevue Way NE #6 Bellevue, WA
425-455-2126
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19 ratings |
Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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Photo-Tronics
513 Dexter Ave N Seattle, WA
206-682-2646
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146 ratings |
Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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Rainier Photographic Supply
15421 1st Ave S Burien, WA
206-244-1101
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Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK has ratings of 10 local camera repair shops.
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CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).
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As You Can See Below, Some Camera Repair Shops Get High Praise from Their Customers. Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.
Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Camera Repair Shops.
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Subscriber from BELLEVUE, WA wrote about a local photo equipment repair shop:
Best in the West........
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Subscriber from SHORELINE, WA wrote about a local photo equipment repair shop:
Excellent work, quick service, very pleasant staff.......
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Subscriber from MILL CREEK, WA wrote about a local photo equipment repair shop:
Didnt have any camera repair work done, but purchased some linear polarizing filters. Was pleasantly..........
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Subscriber from SEATTLE, WA wrote about a local photo equipment repair shop:
These guys really know what theyre doing, and can turn around repairs really quickly. Theyre..........
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Subscriber from SEATTLE, WA wrote about a local photo equipment repair shop:
Not cheap but without doubt the most knowledgeable, careful and best-trained local camera technicians........
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Subscriber from KIRKLAND, WA wrote about a local photo equipment repair shop:
Very good, and also very expensive........
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