{"id":4870,"date":"2014-08-21T09:34:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T13:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2014-08-21T09:45:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T13:45:44","slug":"using-ebay-add-to-cart-discount-to-bypass-canons-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/using-ebay-add-to-cart-discount-to-bypass-canons-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Using eBay &#8220;Add to Cart&#8221; Discount to Bypass Canon&#8217;s MAP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/click.cgi?u=116883\">one Canon authorized dealer<\/a> instituted an &#8220;add to cart&#8221; discount via eBay. They&#8217;re offering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/click.cgi?u=116883\">$10 off per every $150 spent on Canon lenses<\/a> when added to cart, for example, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/go\/focuscamera-via-eBay\/EF-24-70mm-f2.8L-II-USM\/p=3850&#038;m=106\">24-70mm II is $1949<\/a> after $200 rebate and $150 discount. We&#8217;re wondering if this will be allowed (since it&#8217;s via eBay) or if we&#8217;ll see this quickly shutdown. It&#8217;s always good to see more price competition in the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>For this &#8220;deal&#8221;, the $10 per $150 spent discount is only an average 6% discount. On all items it is <b>not as good<\/b> as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/street-prices\/\">average 10% discount available through our very popular street prices program<\/a>, from authorized Canon dealers. We&#8217;ll be writing more about Street Prices soon but for now you can browse the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/street-price-testimonials\/\">testimonials<\/a> as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/faq-street-prices\/\">frequently asked questions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now see that one Canon authorized dealer instituted an &#8220;add to cart&#8221; discount via eBay. They&#8217;re offering $10 off per every $150 spent on Canon lenses when added to cart, for example, the 24-70mm II is $1949 after $200 rebate and $150 discount. We&#8217;re wondering if this will be allowed (since it&#8217;s via eBay) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4870","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\/4870","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=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4885,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions\/4885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}