{"id":728,"date":"2013-10-06T19:29:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T00:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2013-10-07T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T21:05:07","slug":"amazons-rebate-double-dip-17-40l-for-639-135l-for-889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/amazons-rebate-double-dip-17-40l-for-639-135l-for-889\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s Rebate Double Dip: 17-40L for $639, 135L for $889"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/EF-17-40mm-f4L-USM\/p=31&#038;m=20\">Amazon<\/a> is creating a double dip of their own: they have the <a href=\"\/product\/00031\/Canon-EF-17-40mm-f4L-USM-price.html\">Canon EF 17-40mm f\/4L USM<\/a> for <a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/EF-17-40mm-f4L-USM\/p=31&#038;m=20\">$639.00<\/a>, and the <a href=\"\/product\/00011\/Canon-EF-135mm-f2.0L-USM-price.html\">Canon EF 135mm f\/2.0L USM<\/a> for <a href=\"\/go\/Amazon\/EF-135mm-f2.0L-USM\/p=11&#038;m=20\">$889.00<\/a>, after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/images\/010414_CANO_American.pdf\">$100 mail-in rebate<\/a>. This is after a price drop equal to the value of the rebate ($100), effectively creating a double dip for you. This is the lowest price we&#8217;ve seen for both these two lenses in four or five years.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that last week they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/ef-35mm-f1-4l-for-1179-after-rebate-at-amazon\/\">discounted the 35L by $150<\/a> for one day, the amount of the rebate. It seems like they&#8217;re going through the lenses one by one and applying the discount. Here&#8217;s to hoping that a $300 double-dip on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/03850\/Canon-EF-24-70mm-f2.8L-II-USM-price.html\">24-70 II<\/a> is next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is creating a double dip of their own: they have the Canon EF 17-40mm f\/4L USM for $639.00, and the Canon EF 135mm f\/2.0L USM for $889.00, after $100 mail-in rebate. This is after a price drop equal to the value of the rebate ($100), effectively creating a double dip for you. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[560,417],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canon-ef-135mm-f2-0l-usm","tag-canon-ef-17-40mm-f4l-usm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}