{"id":4272,"date":"2014-06-30T16:51:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2014-07-01T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T20:38:38","slug":"canon-rebates-end-this-week-rebate-values-will-be-lowered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/canon-rebates-end-this-week-rebate-values-will-be-lowered\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon Rebates End This Week &#8212; Lens Prices Going Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/new-canon-mail-in-rebate-on-5d-iii-and-lenses-april-27th-july-5th\/\">Canon Mail-in Rebates<\/a> are set to end this week; they&#8217;re only valid for purchases through Saturday, July 5th, at US Canon authorized dealers.<\/p>\n<p>We can confirm that a new set of mail-in rebates will begin on Sunday &#8212; however, <b>most lens rebate values will be lowered<\/b>, and some rebates eliminated altogether, which will <span class=\"redtext\"><b>effectively increase the final price<\/b><\/span>. Specifically, some of the most popular items will see a significant change to the rebate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/02968\/Canon-EF-70-200mm-f2.8L-IS-USM-II-price.html?streetprice\">70-200mm f\/2.8 IS II<\/a> rebate goes from $300 to $200 (current street price is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/02968\/Canon-EF-70-200mm-f2.8L-IS-USM-II-price.html?streetprice\">$1999 AR<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/03850\/Canon-EF-24-70mm-f2.8L-II-USM-price.html?streetprice\">24-70mm f\/2.8 II<\/a> rebate goes from $300 to $200 (current street price is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/03850\/Canon-EF-24-70mm-f2.8L-II-USM-price.html?streetprice\">$1799 AR<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/04043\/Canon-EOS-6D-with-24-105-Kit-price.html?streetprice\">6D + 24-105<\/a> $200 instant rebate becomes a $200 mail-in rebate (street price is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/04043\/Canon-EOS-6D-with-24-105-Kit-price.html?streetprice\">$2099 AR<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In summary, if you are considering a purchase in the short term, now would be the time (take a look at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/street-prices\/\">street prices<\/a>). Based on historical data, we expect the next opportunity for large rebates will be in the fall, the ramp-up to the Holiday season. We must caution that given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/warning-canon-to-enforce-minimum-advertised-price-beginning-april\/\">Canon&#8217;s success in strictly enforcing MAP<\/a> for three months now, we think it&#8217;s unlikely to see a repeat of last year&#8217;s double-dip frenzy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current Canon Mail-in Rebates are set to end this week; they&#8217;re only valid for purchases through Saturday, July 5th, at US Canon authorized dealers. We can confirm that a new set of mail-in rebates will begin on Sunday &#8212; however, most lens rebate values will be lowered, and some rebates eliminated altogether, which will [&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":[407,1244,406],"class_list":["post-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canon-ef-24-70mm-f2-8l-ii-usm","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\/4272","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=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4295,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions\/4295"}],"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=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}