Canon Refurb Store: 15%-Off Lenses, Speedlites, Starting Tonight!

We’re told the Canon Direct Store will be starting a refurbished sale tonight: 15%-off Lenses and Speedlites. The sale runs for two weeks, until December 20th.

The catch is: absolutely nothing good is in-stock, having been picked clean during the Thanksgiving week sale. As with previous sales, we do expect one or two great restocks during the sale, but they will sell out within minutes.

This is a good time to remind you about our e-mail notification system, which e-mails you the instant an item is in-stock below your target price (you can choose either brand new, or used/refurbished). We put together a new notification management page where you can see all your active notifications (and manage them from one convenient page).

You can also set notifications on out-of-stock refurbished items from our refurbished stock tracker.




Still Live, Positive Stories: 5D Mark III + 24-105L (Import) $2699 at 6ave


This hot deal on an import 5D Mark III + 24-105L is still live, but not for long: 6th Ave via eBay has the Canon EOS 5D Mark III with EF 24-105L IS Kit for $2699.99. This is the lowest price we’ve ever seen for this kit (by $200), and is $500 lower than our street price. This was a Cyber Monday deal.

It is an import (read our FAQ about that), and judging by some of the comments on our previous post, some readers are still a bit uncomfortable with that. We think this is an excellent, legitimate deal, and positive reports from all around are starting to come in:

  • Some customers have started to receive their purchases, and positive feedback for the retailer on this specific item is coming in on eBay.

  • One member of the popular (and newly re-designed) Photography-On-The.Net forums shared photos of their unboxing of this purchase — a brand new 5D Mark III and lens, in a regular 5D Mark III + 24-105L kit box, and accessories looks intact.

(Photos courtesy of sschaef1 on Photography-On-The.Net)

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7D Mark II Street Price Live Again at $1639, Plus Doorbusters


The street price on the 7D Mark II is live again at $1639.99 from authorized Canon USA dealers with full Canon USA warranty. We also have a few other configurations (please add a comment to the form if you’re interested in the other packages.)

DOORBUSTER! We had a doorbuster offer for the first 10 readers to order each of the below bundles, but those doorbuster offers are all sold out now. Sorry! You can still order the bundles below at the stated price.



Live Again at Adorama: 6D + PRO-10 for $1249 AR, +24-105 $1849 AR


UPDATE: Deal has been sweetened: you get a free Lexar 64GB 600x SDHC card ($52), a free LP-E6 ($57), and a Lowepro bag. Quite incredible!

Back for a third time, if you missed the previous two:

Adorama has the EOS 6D, PIXMA PRO-10, and LP-E6 Battery for $1249.00, after ADD TO CART and a $650 mail-in rebate.

Click here and then ADD TO CART to see the deal at Adorama; also check out a bundle that includes the 24-105mm f/4L IS USM for $1849.00, after a $650 mail-in rebate.

Note this is the pigment-based PIXMA PRO-10, not the usual dye-based PIXMA PRO-100 printer normally included in these deals. The PIXMA PRO-10 regularly goes for $699.00.

These are the lowest prices we’ve ever seen on the EOS 6D from an authorized dealer. Yes, you can stack the $300 + $350 rebates. Read our Canon rebates FAQ for more details.



Full Frame Deals Wrap-Up — Black Friday / Cyber Week 2014

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you will have noticed: this year was the best year ever for deals on full-frame Canon bodies, namely the EOS 5D Mark III and the EOS 6D.

This post serves as one final summary to organize all the deals over the last few days, and also for future reference — I expect we’ll be referring back to this table when we talk about “those deals during Thanksgiving 2014”.

Some of these deals are still active — we’ll give a green background so you know. We don’t know how long they’ll last, but we can’t imagine they’ll be around for much longer. Other deals are long expired.

If you were waiting for lenses: we didn’t see any deals on L lenses. Other than our street prices, that is.

What did you end up buying this Thanksgiving week, if anything? Share your story!

Full-Frame Camera Deals, Thanksgiving 2014
  6D 6D
+ 24-105L
5D Mark III 5D Mark III
+ 24-105L
Canon MAP
(a.k.a. Full Price)
$300 MIR

All

All

All

All

Authorized Dealer
PRO-10 Bundle
$650 MIR

B&H, Adorama

B&H, Adorama

B&H, Adorama

B&H, Adorama

Unauthorized Dealer
Import via eBay

6ave

6ave

BigValueInc

6ave

Authorized Dealer
Street Price
$300 MIR

Secret

Secret

Secret

Secret

Refurbished

Canon Store

 

Canon Store

 

P.S. We were 3 for 4 on the eBay price predictions. The only one we missed was the 5D Mark III + 24-105L which came in a whopping $150 under prediction.



Cyber Monday Street Price Lenses, Special EF 16-35mm f/4L IS $999


Many body deals last weekend but no lens deals, let’s make one!

We’re pleased to announce a Cyber Monday street price special on the EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM of $999.99 after the $100 mail-in rebate. This is $50 lower than our regular street price for this lens, and this price is only valid for the next 12 hours.

This ultra-wide angle zoom has been touted to be extraordinarily sharp in the corners, and is a great pair to a brand new full-frame body, if you picked one up recently.

We also have great street prices (but not specials) on other very popular lenses. We don’t expect any changes to the following prices today or this week.

Many other sites are posting a “deal” of the 70-200mm II for $1899 from an unauthorized eBay dealer. We have the same price of $1899 from a reputable authorized dealer after the Canon rebate!



Super Hot eBay Frenzy: 5D Mark III + 24-105L (Import) for $2699


An insanely hot Cyber Monday eBay Frenzy Deal saved for last:

6th Ave via eBay has the Canon EOS 5D Mark III with EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM (import) for $2699.99. This is the new lowest-ever price for the 5D Mark III + 24-105L kit. The previous low was $2899 from the same dealer, on eBay.

This is a really hot deal because the lens (brand new, white-box) typically goes for about $600 — netting you a brand new 5D Mark III for only $2099.

This is for an import model, where the store provides a 1-year store warranty — read our FAQ about imports models for answers to the usual questions about imports, warranty, and unauthorized dealers.

Another argument for how hot this deal is: it’s $500 less than our already low street price and a full $1000 less Canon’s MAP of $3699 AR for this camera + lens combo.