{"id":690,"date":"2013-10-03T23:36:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T04:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=690"},"modified":"2013-10-03T23:37:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T04:37:54","slug":"best-buy-and-the-canon-rebate-double-dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/best-buy-and-the-canon-rebate-double-dip\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy and the Canon Rebate Double-Dip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/go\/Best-Buy\/EF-24-70mm-f2.8L-II-USM\/p=3850&#038;m=49\"><b>Best Buy<\/b><\/a> returned their prices to &#8220;normal&#8221; today &#8212; they&#8217;re now featuring the same pre-rebate price as all other stores. We interpret this as confirmation that the low pricing we saw earlier this week was unintended &#8212; an accident on Best Buy&#8217;s part.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also hearing from our readers that Best Buy has shipped all their orders at the low prices, and the rebate pre-submissions are being accepted on <a href=\"http:\/\/rebates.usa.canon.com\/\">Canon&#8217;s rebate portal<\/a>. Given the approved pre-submissions as well as all the clarifications from Canon&#8217;s hotline, we now have pretty good confidence that the double-dip will work out (as long as Canon does their part). <b>Congrats to all who got in on the deal!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, with the price increase, the opportunity to get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/massive-l-lenses-price-drops-24-70-ii-for-1999-and-more\/\">24-70 II for $1699<\/a> is over for now. We&#8217;re always on the lookout for the next big deal so please subscribe if you haven&#8217;t (use the notify button on the main page, or <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CanonPriceWatch\">follow us on twitter<\/a>) and we&#8217;ll e-mail you as soon deals happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Buy returned their prices to &#8220;normal&#8221; today &#8212; they&#8217;re now featuring the same pre-rebate price as all other stores. We interpret this as confirmation that the low pricing we saw earlier this week was unintended &#8212; an accident on Best Buy&#8217;s part. We&#8217;re also hearing from our readers that Best Buy has shipped all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","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\/690","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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}