{"id":1035,"date":"2013-10-24T20:10:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T01:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2013-10-25T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T13:42:50","slug":"ef-24-105mm-f4l-is-usm-now-699-brand-new-from-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/ef-24-105mm-f4l-is-usm-now-699-brand-new-from-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"EF 24-105mm f\/4L IS USM Now $699 Brand New from Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/EF-24-105mm-f4L-IS-USM\/p=47&#038;m=20\">Amazon<\/a> has made the next move in this veritable Canon price war &#8212; they have the <a href=\"\/product\/00047\/Canon-EF-24-105mm-f4L-IS-USM-price.html\">Canon EF 24-105mm f\/4L IS USM<\/a> for <a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/EF-24-105mm-f4L-IS-USM\/p=47&#038;m=20\">$699.99<\/a>. This is the absolute cheapest price we&#8217;ve seen the lens-only from an authorized retailer &#8212; a <i>$400 price drop<\/i>. (Even the unauthorized dealers are only selling for slightly below this, and they sell split kits!)<\/p>\n<p>What is going on with all of these deals? We&#8217;ve been studying Canon prices for six years now and have never seen this many deals. Has Canon abandoned price control?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a graph of the <a href=\"\/product\/00047\/Canon-EF-24-105mm-f4L-IS-USM-price.html\">EF 24-105mm f\/4L IS USM<\/a> price history from authorized dealers. Notice how extreme Amazon&#8217;s latest price drop is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/00047\/Canon-EF-24-105mm-f4L-IS-USM-price.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/00047-Canon-EF-24-105mm-f4L-IS-USM-price-graph.png\" alt=\"00047-Canon-EF-24-105mm-f4L-IS-USM-price-graph\" width=\"660\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/00047-Canon-EF-24-105mm-f4L-IS-USM-price-graph.png 660w, https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/00047-Canon-EF-24-105mm-f4L-IS-USM-price-graph-240x66.png 240w, https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/00047-Canon-EF-24-105mm-f4L-IS-USM-price-graph-624x173.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has made the next move in this veritable Canon price war &#8212; they have the Canon EF 24-105mm f\/4L IS USM for $699.99. This is the absolute cheapest price we&#8217;ve seen the lens-only from an authorized retailer &#8212; a $400 price drop. (Even the unauthorized dealers are only selling for slightly below this, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canon-ef-24-105mm-f4l-is-usm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}