Thanks for your interest in street prices — please note, both we and the street price retailers are experiencing extreme volume right now, as this is the busiest retail week of the year, plus the new rebates. As a result, there may be extra delays to get through the street price process and to ship the orders. Thanks for your continued patience.

The new rebate has brought renewed interest in the street prices, mostly because savvy readers recognize that this is the best possible mail-in rebate this year. The mail-in rebate is scheduled to last until January 3rd, 2015, and purchases at street price are fully eligible for the mail-in rebate.

The 6D, 6D 24-105L Kit, and 5D Mark III have been flying off the shelves as the mail-in rebate was increased to $300:

• EOS 6D street price of $1359 AR
• EOS 6D + 24-105L street price of $1939 AR
• EOS 5D Mark III street price of $2599 AR

Some of the lenses are at great prices and extremely popular.

• EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM II for $1899 Street Price (vs. $2149 MAP)
• EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM for $1749 Street Price (vs. $1949 MAP)
• EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM for $989 Street Price (vs. $1099 MAP)
• EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM for $1759 Street Price (vs. $1999 MAP)
• EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM for $1319 Street Price (vs. $1499 MAP)
• EF 50mm f/1.2L USM for $1239 Street Price (vs. $1399 MAP)
• See all the street prices…

About one week ago we published eBay Holiday Canon deal predictions. We’re pleased to see that eBay has now released an “ad scan” of some of the key deals, and it looks like we got some of our predictions exactly spot on.

eBay doesn’t tell us when during the day these deals will be, just that there is a new deal every hour. As you probably don’t want to be watching eBay all day (where as we will be), please set a notification on a specific item you’re interested in, as well as for new blog posts (in the yellow box on our main page). This ensures you get e-mailed as soon as they deals go live, as they do sell out very quickly — generally within hours.

During the Black Friday Deal Frenzy

• An import EOS 6D for $1299 (set notification)
  • compare vs. $1339 AR authorized dealer street price

• An import EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II for $1949 (set notification)
  • higher than our $1899 AR authorized dealer street price!

• An import T5 with 18-55 IS for $299 (set notification)

During the Cyber Monday Deal Frenzy

• An import EOS 6D with 24-105mm Kit for $1799 (set notification)
  • compare vs. $1939 AR authorized dealer street price

An important thing to note is, these prices are good, but not great compared to our authorized dealer (Canon USA model with Canon USA warranty) street prices. In most cases, the prices are very close to, or sometimes even above our authorized dealer street price. The one upside is you won’t have to do a mail-in rebate to get these prices if you buy an import model from an unauthorized dealer, but the downside is a Canon USA warranty is not guaranteed. We also expect you’d get better customer service from the authorized dealer.

Finally, we were totally correct in our EOS 6D price predictions. The second half of our prophecy, the elusive 5D Mark III prices, are not confirmed. It looks like we’ll have to wait until the actual day-of to see if our predictions come true.

You can read more to see the full ad-scans.

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No surprise, as the rebate form was accidentally posted by a retailer two days early: the end-of-year Canon mail-in rebates have started. They run until January 3rd, so they are the last mail-in rebates of the year, and thus we shouldn’t expect any more rebate increases.

Notable changes since the previous rebate are an increase in the rebate on the full-frame bodies to $300 each, and also a new rebate initiated on a few lenses:

• $300 Rebate (was $200) on EOS 6D
• $300 Rebate (was $200) on EOS 6D + 24-105L IS
• $300 Rebate (was $200) on EOS 5D Mark III
• $300 Rebate (was $200) on EOS 5D Mark III + 24-105L IS
• $300 Rebate (was $200) on EOS 5D Mark III + 24-70mm f/4L IS
• New $200 Rebate on EF 24-70mm f/4L IS USM
• New $50 Rebate on EF 28mm f/2.8 IS USM
• New $50 Rebate on EF 100mm f/2 USM
• New $50 Rebate on EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

As usual, these rebates stack with our street prices as our street prices are from authorized Canon dealers. You can rest assured that you are getting the maximum possible rebate this year if you buy now. Read more to see the full, lengthy, list of items on rebate: pretty much everything (except super-telephotos).

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