Archives for December 24, 2016

GoPRO5 Hero Black + $60 Gift Card + 64GB Sandisk EXtReMe microSDXC for $400

The GoPRO HERO5 Black black-friday offer was $400 with a $60 gift card (gift card of each particular seller), but now Best Buy is adding an additional freebie. In addition to getting a $60 Best Buy gift card, you also get a 64GB Sandisk Extreme PLUS microSDXC for FREE. Free shipping or free store pickup.

Gift Emergencies and/or Simplicity: Online Emailable or Printable Gift Cards

It is almost too late to buy physical gifts, you either have to fight last minute stressed out crowds at shopping centers, or hope PrimeNOW doesn’t screw up with a last minute order (Amazon delivery drivers on average are not as seasoned as UPS and FedEx drivers). At this point in time, the safer and least stressful solution is online gift cards delivered by email or printable with your own printer.

At Amazon’s Gift Cards, you can send them by e-mail (they usually arrive within a couple of minutes), or you can print them with your own printer (they offer a variety of designs including uploading your own photo, which would make it a personal gift), and for the younger generation, they even have delivery via a text message (because email and reading from paper is hard!). You can enter any amount from $1 to $2000. If you want to test the delivery speed, you can send yourself an email gift card and see how fast it arrives. You can even send it to the same email address. You can also select the delivery date (but not the delivery time). Amazon sends you emails after it is sent and after the email with the gift card is opened (or something like that, I forgot what’s the exact trigger point), so you’ll know it was not lost in the cybersphere.

At B&H Photo, you can send them via e-mail with a few premade templates to chose from. Amounts range from $20 to $250. For larger amounts, send multiple cards. TIP: if sending multiple e-gift cards to the same person, maybe send different amounts so they don’t get confused and think it’s a duplicate 🙂

At Adorama, you have preset options ranging from $10 to $1000, delivered by e-mail.

75% off Amazon Photo Prints, Books, Cards, Calendars with coupon

Amazon does photo prints too now, and coupon code NEWYEAR gets you 75% off custom photo prints, books, calendars and cards at the Amazon Prints website. This is linked to the Cloud Drive and Prime Photos. Prime members get free shipping for any order, and free expedited shipping for $15+ orders.

PS: this should not be confused with the previously launched “Amazon Prints”, which sells Fine Art prints – a potential place to sell your own photography and artwork.

Hardcover: used National Geographic Rarely Seen: Photographs of the Extraordinary for $12.50 w/free S&H

UPDATE: the new condition price jumped to $27… As far as I can tell the undying Amazon book coupon GIFTBOOK finally expired, but it doesn’t hurt to type it in just in case 🙂 Regardless, the October 2015 hardcover of National Geographic Rarely Seen: Photographs of the Extraordinary is on sale for $21.75 with the usual free shipping terms (Prime or $25+ in books or $49+ in general; of items shipped by Amazon).

It is currently the best seller among Photojournalism Books.

On the other hand, if you are comfortable with used photography books (a bigger risk than text-only books since pristine photography is the raison d^etre of a photography books) you can get it for $12.50 with free slow shipping by eBay seller “BookOutlet2” (99.4%, New Jersey zipcode).

(ENDED) Heads Up: Amazon declared December 30 Digital Day

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(ENDED) Sunday: Bower 500mm f/6.3 Manual Focus Telephoto T-Mount Lens for $90, Etc

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(ENDED) Corel PaintShop Pro X9 Ultimate for $30 (PC, download)

This sale ended… The Windows version of Corel PaintShop Pro X9 Ultimate is on sale for $30 as a digital download at Amazon. This is not a lightning deal. The physical media version is not on sale.

(ENDED) Magazine Sale: Pop Photo + Outdoor Photo for $8 per year for both and other offers

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(ENDED) International version of Tamron 16-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD MACRO (Nikon) for $401

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(ENDED) Canon PIXMA MG2520 Inkjet AiO Photo Printer for $18 with free shipping [ink IS included]

This daily deal expired… How low can you go with printers? We are finding out! Adorama is offering the new condition Canon PIXMA MG2520 Inkjet Photo All-in-One Printer for $18 with free shipping. This is the standard kit, INK is included! Offer ends by Sunday 12pm ET (or earlier if sold out; or later if it gets extended)…