I finally decided to buy a film camera after years...

I finally decided to buy a film camera after years of deliberation. I thought Precision Camera would be the best place, hearing many great reviews. A salesman approached me and helped me locate the camera I wanted, he seemed to be quite arrogant and wasn't very helpful either - not even answering my questions clearly. I decided to buy the camera anyways since I had done some research and saw that Precision had the one I wanted at a decent price (Canon AE-1 $149.95). As I said I wanted to purchase the camera it was brought to my attention that there was no lens cap on the camera, so the guy gave me a random Sigma lens cap instead (it all fits the same anyways but this just adds to the list of things that didn't go right). I also purchased a battery ($12.99) for my camera, the arrogant salesman didn't even know what battery to put into the camera, so I had look it up on my phone. I also decided to ask about returns (14 days from date of purchase) since I kept in mind that used cameras have the possibility of having problems - maybe I jinxed myself. Excited to finally have my own film camera I loaded my film in and began shooting some pictures just hours after I buying it. I noticed that the advance dial was unresponsive, I kept testing shots and it stayed unresponsive. I bought the camera on a Friday and went back to get it fixed the following Monday. I waited in line for about 20 minutes before I was actually helped, but this time all the employees were very nice and helpful. At first they were about to charge me for the repair but I was not about to pay for a repair on a camera that I just bought days ago that I didn t even break. After letting the employee know that I only purchased it on Friday he waived the fee. This is so minuscule but at this point I'm already annoyed, so the employee who was helping me this time told me the guy who first sold me the camera apparently misspelled my name as well, who spells Tiffany with three Fs? The repair was only supposed to take 25min but apparently it was taking them a lot longer to figure out what was even wrong with it, so I decided to pick it up on Tuesday. Now here we are, back at home and I m about to load my film in and it won t work so I check the battery.... BIG SURPRISE MY NEW BATTERY I BOUGHT 4 DAYS AGO IS DEAD (keep in mind I only had the camera with me for 3 days and the other 2 days it was at Precision). OKAY NOW AS I'M SITTING HERE WITH MY CAMERA AND MY DEAD BATTERY THAT I JUST BOUGHT, I NOTICE A CRACK ON THE BATTERY COVER - not even possible for me to have broken in the less than 3 days I had it especially since the employee put in the battery FOR ME when I first bought it. Precision Camera should REALLY quality check and test their used cameras before selling them. I ll be going back to return my camera at Precision and finding a different seller to buy another film camera. I hope everyone else has better luck shopping at Precision Camera than I did.