{"id":1145,"date":"2013-10-30T11:16:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2013-10-30T17:37:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T21:37:01","slug":"sigma-17-50mm-f2-8-ex-dc-os-hsm-for-429-from-roberts-via-ebay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/sigma-17-50mm-f2-8-ex-dc-os-hsm-for-429-from-roberts-via-ebay-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigma 17-50mm f2.8 EX DC OS HSM for $429 from Roberts via eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This deal is back: <a href=\"\/go\/Roberts-via-eBay\/17-50mm-F2.8-EX-DC-OS-HSM-for-Canon\/p=3387&#038;m=92\">Roberts Camera via eBay<\/a> has the optically-stabilized <a href=\"\/product\/03387\/Sigma-17-50mm-F2.8-EX-DC-OS-HSM-for-Canon-price.html\">Sigma 17-50mm F2.8 EX DC OS HSM for Canon<\/a> for <a href=\"\/go\/Roberts-via-eBay\/17-50mm-F2.8-EX-DC-OS-HSM-for-Canon\/p=3387&#038;m=92\">$429.99<\/a>. They&#8217;re an authorized Sigma retailer, and this ties for the cheapest price from an authorized dealer that we&#8217;ve seen since tracking this lens in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Compare with other authorized retailers who are currently asking <a href=\"\/product\/03387\/Sigma-17-50mm-F2.8-EX-DC-OS-HSM-for-Canon-price.html\">$569<\/a> for this lens. This lens was due for a price-drop as the Canon equivalent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/00040\/Canon-EF-S-17-55mm-f2.8-IS-USM-price.html\">EF-S 17-55mm f\/2.8 IS<\/a> saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/price-drop-ef-35mm-f2-is-usm-for-599\/\">price drop<\/a> from $1059 to $829 over the last few months. At a little more than half the price, this Sigma version is a fantastic deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This deal is back: Roberts Camera via eBay has the optically-stabilized Sigma 17-50mm F2.8 EX DC OS HSM for Canon for $429.99. They&#8217;re an authorized Sigma retailer, and this ties for the cheapest price from an authorized dealer that we&#8217;ve seen since tracking this lens in 2011. Compare with other authorized retailers who are currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[590],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sigma-17-50mm-f2-8-ex-dc-os-hsm-for-canon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","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=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}