{"id":4346,"date":"2014-07-05T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T16:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=4346"},"modified":"2014-07-05T12:22:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T16:22:51","slug":"ef-85mm-f1-8-usm-for-299-buydig-ebay-likely-not-refurbished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/ef-85mm-f1-8-usm-for-299-buydig-ebay-likely-not-refurbished\/","title":{"rendered":"EF 85mm f\/1.8 USM for $299 BuyDig eBay (Likely Not &#8220;Refurbished&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another sneaky listing from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/used\/112203\">BuyDig via eBay<\/a>? They have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/00009\/Canon-EF-85mm-f1.8-USM-price.html\">EF 85mm f\/1.8 USM<\/a> &#8220;manufacturer refurbished&#8221; for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/used\/112203\">$299.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the listing details give the catalog number as CN85USM, and the part number as 2519A003. The catalog number matches the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/go\/BuyDig\/EF-85mm-f1.8-USM\/p=9&#038;m=29\">brand new item on BuyDig&#8217;s site<\/a>, and the part number is also the brand new part number (refurbished part is 2519A007, for your reference).<\/p>\n<p>We think this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/eos-6d-24-105mm-refurbished-for-1899-at-buydig-ebay\/\">yet another &#8220;refurbished&#8221; sale where they are shipping new items<\/a> &#8212; $299 would be the lowest price ever seen for a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/00009\/Canon-EF-85mm-f1.8-USM-price.html\">EF 85mm f\/1.8 USM<\/a> from an authorized dealer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/used\/112203\">BuyDig<\/a> only collects sales tax to NJ. The $50 instant rebate on the lens is likely converted to a mail-in rebate tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another sneaky listing from BuyDig via eBay? They have the EF 85mm f\/1.8 USM &#8220;manufacturer refurbished&#8221; for $299.99. But the listing details give the catalog number as CN85USM, and the part number as 2519A003. The catalog number matches the brand new item on BuyDig&#8217;s site, and the part number is also the brand new part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[425],"class_list":["post-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canon-ef-85mm-f1-8-usm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346","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=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}