B&H Photo Video is responding to the recent Amazon price drops: they have the Canon EOS 5D Mark III for $2899.00, and the Canon EOS 6D for $1599.00.
You get the discount at checkout.
While not a full price match (Amazon still has the 5D Mark III for $2799), it is a good sign of possibly more deals to come!
Both deals come with 2% rewards, and free bonuses, such as SanDisk SD cards, batteries, a monopod, and a Canon bag.
I’m seeing the 24-105mm kit being sold for $3349. What’s the lowest price on the kit for a sale that doesn’t include MIRs? (in other words, ignoring the $3299 Adorama deal is achieved through a big MIR and saddles you with a printer you’ll never be able to resell on eBay.) Basically for non-MIR, is $3349 a historically low price, or only so-so?
For non-MIR 5D Mark III kit, the historic low price was $3299 which was a 10-hour sale by Amazon on December 1st, 2012 (coincidentally, exactly one yeaer ago today).
So $3349 is a pretty good price historically, but note: last year, the 24-105L market wasn’t as saturated and that lens was worth around $850 split from a kit.
You can check out the graph on our price comparison page for the kit:
http://www.canonpricewatch.com/product/03870/Canon-EOS-5D-Mark-III-with-EF-24-105-IS-Kit-price.html
Thanks for the quick reply. I wonder how likely it is B&H will drop below $3349 (non-MIR) in the next month or two. Do you know how many days after a purchase B&H will price-match, if the price drops before the 30-day return period?
B&H has a history of being good with price adjustments while in a return period, and they’re in a special extended holiday return period — untli January 17th, 2014.
You’d have to ask B&H to be 100% certain (as I can’t speak for them), but I’d hope they’d honor price adjustments until that extended return date, which would protect you against any price drops for seven weeks.
Kim Gunter Vine