Happy New Year! The Canon Store posted what appears to be a new rebate form on their website — it shows the current rebates being extended at the same values until January 31st.

This is great news, as we now have four more weeks to take advantage of the excellent Holiday prices and street prices. You also now have until March 2nd to submit the form for the current rebate — but don’t wait until the last minute.

Please note that this is actually a rebate extension, where they’ve changed the end-date, not a brand new rebate. This means you are still subject to the one-copy per item limit during the period (November 23rd – January 31st). For example, you can get a rebate on two different lenses, but you cannot get two rebates on the same lens, or do two printer bundles.

This is also a good time to remind our readers to check on the status of your recent rebate submission. Most readers have gotten rebates approved from Thanksgiving sales already.

Yesterday, we posted leaked rebate values (from a reliable source) for the next Canon mail-in rebate. Those leaked values indicated a significant rebate drop (and thus effective price increase) after January 3rd, 2015.

After that post, we’ve had several other reliable sources contact us with conflicting information. Everyone has heard something different. One source explained the likely cause of confusion:

“The January rebate values aren’t final yet. It will either be the lowered rebate values that you posted, or something similar to the current rebate. A decision probably won’t be reached until Friday.”

We’ve modified our previous post to strike-through the previously leaked values, as we are no longer certain that they are correct. We think this is good news, as there is a chance the rebate values will be renewed at the current, we’ll update when more is known.

One thing we know for sure: the current exellent mail-in rebates expire on January 3rd. If you want to ensure you don’t miss out (in case there is no rebate renewal), please check out the street prices.

UPDATE: We’ve had a few other reliable sources step forward to give conflicting information. It sounds like it’s still up in the air on what the next Canon rebates will be. Thus we are retracting our previous statement on the new rebate values. The only thing we are sure of at this time is the current rebates are scheduled to end on January 3rd, 2015. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

The current Canon mail-in rebates expire on January 3rd, 2015. We now have more info on the Canon rebates that will begin on January 4th. We are told the most popular items will see a significant drop in rebate (and thus an effective price increase):

We are told almost all items will have their rebates slashed or eliminated altogether.

Historically, the November/December timeframe has been the best time to buy Canon, as we see the largest rebates of the year. True to our predictions the Canon Minimum Advertised Price remains strongly enforced and we don’t expect prices to change in the next week. Check out our great street prices.

• Current $150 Rebate on EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM II: Street price of $1849 AR
• Current $150 Rebate on EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM: Street price of $1699 AR
• Current $300 Rebate on EOS 5D Mark III: Street price of $2469 AR
• Current $300 Rebate on EOS 5D Mark III with EF 24-105L IS Kit: Street price of $2999 AR
• Current $300 Rebate on EOS 6D: Street price of $1339 AR
• Current $300 Rebate on EOS 6D with 24-105mm Kit: Street price of $1829 AR
• See all the street prices…

To be eligible for the current mail-in rebate, purchases must be made before January 3rd, 2015. You don’t need to receive your purchase by then, it just has to be ordered by that date. You have until February 3rd, 2015, to mail your rebate claim form.