{"id":2969,"date":"2014-04-14T01:06:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T05:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2014-04-26T22:22:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T02:22:01","slug":"price-mistake-manfrotto-502hd-pro-video-head-for-85-ar-at-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/price-mistake-manfrotto-502hd-pro-video-head-for-85-ar-at-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Price Mistake: Manfrotto 502HD Pro Video Head for $85 AR at Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This appears to be a price-mistake; <a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/502HD-Pro-Video-Head-with-Flat-Base\/p=5419&#038;m=20\">Amazon<\/a> is double-dipping on the <a href=\"\/product\/05419\/Manfrotto-502HD-Pro-Video-Head-with-Flat-Base-price.html\">Manfrotto 502HD Pro Video Head with Flat Base<\/a> for <a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/502HD-Pro-Video-Head-with-Flat-Base\/p=5419&#038;m=20\">$85.89<\/a> after a $50 mail-in rebate.<\/p>\n<p>The regular price for this head is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/05419\/Manfrotto-Manfrotto-502HD-Pro-Video-Head-with-Flat-Base-price.html\">$185.89<\/a>; there&#8217;s currently a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/images\/063014_manf25_Video.pdf\">$50 mail-in rebate<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manfrotto.us\/dealers?country=US&#038;keyword=amazon&#038;search=&#038;zip=&#038;radius=&#038;state=\">Amazon is an authorized dealer<\/a>), but it looks like <a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/502HD-Pro-Video-Head-with-Flat-Base\/p=5419&#038;m=20\">Amazon<\/a> is mistakenly applying it as an instant-rebate. You should be eligible for the rebate after the Amazon $135 price, for a net price of $85. This is a steal at less than half price!<\/p>\n<p><b>Note: Amazon is currently out-of-stock but they honor back-orders. They currently state a wait of 2-4 weeks, but knowing Amazon it is typically less than what they advertise.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>[UPDATE:<\/b> Amazon jacked the price up $50 to $185. I think this is them acknowledging it was a price mistake. \ud83d\ude42 They seem to still be honoring any orders.<b>]<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This appears to be a price-mistake; Amazon is double-dipping on the Manfrotto 502HD Pro Video Head with Flat Base for $85.89 after a $50 mail-in rebate. The regular price for this head is $185.89; there&#8217;s currently a $50 mail-in rebate (Amazon is an authorized dealer), but it looks like Amazon is mistakenly applying it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[766],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-manfrotto-502hd-pro-video-head-with-flat-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","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=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3103,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/3103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}