{"id":1279,"date":"2013-11-10T12:34:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T16:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2013-11-11T08:39:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T13:39:08","slug":"hot-double-dip-ef-70-200mm-f2-8-is-usm-ii-for-1899-at-buydig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/hot-double-dip-ef-70-200mm-f2-8-is-usm-ii-for-1899-at-buydig\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Double Dip: EF 70-200mm f\/2.8 IS USM II for $1899 at BuyDig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorized dealer <a href=\"\/go\/BuyDig-via-eBay\/EF-70-200mm-f2.8L-IS-USM-II\/p=2968&#038;m=54\">BuyDig via eBay<\/a> has the <a href=\"\/product\/02968\/Canon-EF-70-200mm-f2.8L-IS-USM-II-price.html\">Canon EF 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS USM II<\/a> for <a href=\"\/go\/BuyDig-via-eBay\/EF-70-200mm-f2.8L-IS-USM-II\/p=2968&#038;m=54\">$1899.00<\/a> (after a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/images\/010414_CANO_American.pdf\">$300 mail-in rebate<\/a>). This is the cheapest price that we&#8217;ve ever seen for this lens!<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"redtext\">UPDATE:<\/span><\/b> This deal is expired. It is still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/go\/BH-Photo-Video\/EF-70-200mm-f2.8L-IS-USM-II\/p=2968&#038;m=5\">live at B&#038;H<\/a> (discount at checkout), but probably will not last long there either.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, this is the double-dip on the 70-200 II that we&#8217;ve been waiting for! <b>As with all previous double-dip deals this price is only temporary &#8212; we expect it to be sold out by tonight or early tomorrow.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Double-dip deals are ones where the stores discount by the amount of the mail-in rebate (in this case, $300), effectively doubling the value. BuyDig is an authorized dealer and eligible for the $300 rebate. They also had a sale on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/hot-double-dip-100l-macro-for-749-at-buydig-via-ebay\/\">100L Macro<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re afraid about the mail-in rebate &#8212; we&#8217;ve heard from many readers that they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/canon-mail-in-rebates-received-in-less-than-3-weeks\/\">received their rebates less than 3 weeks after making the claim<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorized dealer BuyDig via eBay has the Canon EF 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS USM II for $1899.00 (after a $300 mail-in rebate). This is the cheapest price that we&#8217;ve ever seen for this lens! UPDATE: This deal is expired. It is still live at B&#038;H (discount at checkout), but probably will not last long there either. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1244,406],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canon-ef-70-200mm-f2-8l-is-ii-usm","tag-canon-ef-70-200mm-f2-8l-is-usm-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","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=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}