What is the best place to rent Lenses?

[glen]

There seem to be a number of places with fairly competative prices.
Does anyone have any actual experience with them?

 

[Dubb]

I get the best deals from my local place. Selection isn't great, prices are.

Lensrentals seems to have the best selection+price combo, but in three attempts to do business with them, they've screwed up every time. They're always apologetic and quick to refund, but I'm pretty much done with them.

My next rental that I can't get from the local place will be through borrowlenses.

 

[glen]

I get the best deals from my local place. Selection isn't great, prices are.

Lensrentals seems to have the best selection+price combo, but in three attempts to do business with them, they've screwed up every time. They're always apologetic and quick to refund, but I'm pretty much done with them.

My next rental that I can't get from the local place will be through borrowlenses.

I just rented from them.
How did they screw it up?
Their price was pretty good.

 

[Dubb]

I just rented from them.
How did they screw it up?
Their price was pretty good.

Incident #1, I needed AM delivery. I called, they said just place a note in the web order form and they'll take care of it. They didn't. That resulted in a hurried run to the local shop just have something close to what I needed and still make it to the site on time.

Incident #2, placed order, then the day it was supposed to ship they called to say they actually wouldn't have one of the things I ordered. Another short notice scramble to plan B.

Incident #3, I bought some of their used gear, which the listing said would have a $10 fee to activate a new software key. Turned out to be $80, and the software company told me they had notified LR weeks prior that their listing was wrong. LR refunded the difference.

 

[glen]

Wow.
I just rented a lens, which I bet is pretty popular, 85mm 1.2.
According to them, they will ship it to me on May 24, and it should arrive by May 30.
I have to drop it in the mail Monday June 3.
Cost under $100. Worth it if it works. Not worth it if they tell me at teh last min that they dont have one.

 

[Eruditass]

Never had problems with LensRentals or BorrowLenses.

LensRental's blog is awesome, by the way.

http://www.lensrentals.com/blog

 

[mchammer187]

Incident #1, I needed AM delivery. I called, they said just place a note in the web order form and they'll take care of it. They didn't. That resulted in a hurried run to the local shop just have something close to what I needed and still make it to the site on time.

Incident #2, placed order, then the day it was supposed to ship they called to say they actually wouldn't have one of the things I ordered. Another short notice scramble to plan B.

Incident #3, I bought some of their used gear, which the listing said would have a $10 fee to activate a new software key. Turned out to be $80, and the software company told me they had notified LR weeks prior that their listing was wrong. LR refunded the difference.

That's crazy bad luck. I only rented from them one time and it was relatively cheap and easy.

 

[tenthumbs]

I've rented from cameralensrentals.com at least 6 times over the past two years. Never had a problem with them. They only rent Canon, Nikon and Pentax though.

 

[ElectricD]

I've also never had any issues with lensrentals.com. You can also usually find some discount codes floating around on the web for your order.

 

[Silenus]

I rented from Lensrentals.com three times myself, and every one has been a good experience.