Several CPW readers have written in to ask questions about the Canon price increase, so here’s an impromptu Q&A session!<\/p>\n
Q: When will refurbished prices go up? [Another website] mentioned that future refurbished prices will also go up as a result of the price increase. Do you know when this will happen and how much they will go up?<\/b><\/p>\n
A: Those other websites are unfortunately inaccurate. Refurbished prices have already gone up.<\/b> Typically, “regular price” for refurbished is is pegged to either 80% (historically) or 90% (all recent arrivals, including RF lenses) of the pre-rebate MAP price. With a $100 increase, we see a $80 or $90 increase to the refurbished price:<\/p>\n Q: Do you think this is a temporary price increase? Will we ever see prices come back down again?<\/b><\/p>\n A: This is speculation on my part, but the various price increases we’ve seen in the last years are probably the “new base” price for these lenses going forward. It’s likely costing Canon more to procure inputs, manufacture, and distribute these lenses at the moment. While some of the extra cost (e.g. premiums due to chip shortage, container shipping<\/a>) may diminish after the pandemic, I would guess that the bulk of the increase — and thus, these prices, will remain.<\/p>\n I’m sure there will be future deals and rebates once supply improves, but it will take some patience to get there. I’m hoping, but not too optimistic that there will be an end-of-2022 deal season. If you see yourself getting good value from a recently released camera or lens over the next 12-18 months, you may as well buy now, as I really don’t think we’re going to see stellar deals over that time period.<\/p>\n Q: How can I buy at the old price?<\/b><\/p>\n A: Amazon is still listing some items at the old price (for now). They’ve already increased the price on the RF 100-500L, unfortunately.<\/p>\n Several CPW readers have written in to ask questions about the Canon price increase, so here’s an impromptu Q&A session! Q: When will refurbished prices go up? [Another website] mentioned that future refurbished prices will also go up as a result of the price increase. Do you know when this will happen and how much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37975","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=37975"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37991,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37975\/revisions\/37991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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