Archives for November 2017

The Quick Jump Links are back in the BF 2017 Situation Room

The “Quick Jump Links” are back in our on-going Black Friday 2017 Camera & Photo Situation Room. As the post grows longer and longer, these help in quickly jumping to the main areas of interest. The last one (Accessories) takes you quickly to the bottom, while the other links are self-explanatory. I am keeping Lenses as one mega category because a lot of sales are a mix of DSLR and mirrorless lenses.

Here’s a screenshot crop of this new section over there:

YMMV PayPal Coupon: $10 off a $50+ eBay order

If you are subscribed to PayPal offers by email (I think this is on by default, you’d have to manually turn it on their settings), they have sent today personalized email coupon codes for $10 off an eBay order of $50+ that is paid with PayPal (is there any other way to pay these days?). The coupon is a long mess of characters and numbers, which means it is unique for each customer, that’s why I’m not posting it here.

Coupon expires 11/22/17, and has the usual coupon exclusions.

IF you are eligible for this, it can be a perfect couponing storm, because running until Thursday night is a 8% eBay Bucks promotion (YMMV on who’s eligible) and running until Monday AM is a 20% off eBay coupon promotion.

I believe all three should be stackable because the PayPal coupon is a payment coupon (PayPal checkout coupon), while the eBay coupon is a purchase (eBay shopping cart) coupon. The rewards happen regardless of whether you use any coupons as long as you activate them before making purchases.

Olympus f1.8 M43rds Portrait (75mm and 45mm) for $900

We already mentioned the $700 Olympus Travel Lens Kit (17/1.8 and 14-150/4-5.6 II), but Olympus also has another official lens kit, this one goes for $900 and it is the Portrait Kit, it bundles two f1.8 primes, the 75mm f1.8 and the 45mm f1.8.

The $900 Portrait Kit is currently available at Adorama and B&H Photo (with $36~ promotional rewards) and by various at Amazon ($45 statement credit if paid with Prime VISA).

Individually, the 45mm f1.8 goes for $300 at authorized dealers (eg Amazon), or you can get it as low as $174 refurbished.

Individually, the 75mm f1.8 goes for $900 at authorized dealers, eg B&H Photo (with $36~ promotional rewards).

So with this promotion, based on the current prices, you are essentially getting the 45mm f1.8. The Portrait Kit also includes matching barrel lens cases and hoods for the two lenses. The lenses are obviously of different size, and so are their cases and hoods.

Refurbished Olympus 25mm f1.8 for $200 [update: 45/1.8 sold out]

Refils are not free at the Olympus Outlet store but they can be discounted. As of this recheck, the following refurbished products with 90-day Olympus USA warranty have been re-added:

+ refurbished black M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm f4.0-5.6 R for $60
+ the silver was already there

+ refurbished M.Zuiko ED 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 EZ for $150 in black or silver but not in Las Vegas Raiders edition

+ refurbished M.Zuiko 25mm f1.8 Black for $200, while the silver goes for $230
+ in new condition these go for $300

+ SOLD OUT: refurbished M. Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f1.8 (Silver) for $174
+ goes for $300 in new condition, eg Adorama
+ it is also included in the 75mm and 45mm f1.8 kit for $900

Vello FreeWave Fusion Basic 2.4 GHz Wireless Trigger System (C/N/A) for $28 w/free S&H [and more]

These offers expired but for more action, check the B&H Featured Sales

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Thursday: Usual Camera/Photo accessories, Etc

There are over 50 items listed in the Camera & Photo lightning deals of the Amazon Gold Box.

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Panasonic Leica 42.5mm f1.2 OIS with lots of extras for $1398

The Panasonic Leica 42.5mm f1.2 OIS micro four thirds lens is on sale for $1398 with a boatload of free lens-y accessories at Adorama: 67mm filter kit, Corel software bundle, FocusShifter DSLR Follow Focus & Rack Focus, lens wrap, lens shade, and cleaning kit.

If you don’t need the extra accessories, you can instead get 4% promotional rewards ($56~ to be used in future purchases) at B&H Photo or if you pay with a Prime VISA, you can get 5% statement credit by Amazon itself.

1-Year Dropbox Plus Subscription + $25 Promo eGift Card for $60

Dell Small Business is off to the Black Friday races with a cloud-busting deal. They are offering 1-Year Annual Dropbox PLUS subscription for $60 and with that you also receive a $25 promotional Dell e-Gift Card within 20 days after purchasing.

Dropbox Plus gets you 1TB of storage for one year for one user. They support all the major platforms including Linux. I do not know if this offer can be appended to an existing Dropbox paid subscription.

The $25 promo e-gift card can only be spent at Dell, and usually within 90 days upon receipt. That’s why it’s a promotional e-gift card instead of a regular gift card.

PS: speaking of clouds, Stacksocial offers the 2TB Lifetime Zoolz Cloud Storage for $40 instead of its usual price of $50. The 2TB are broken into 1TB of Instant Storage and 1TB of Cold Storage. It includes access to two machines for backups. This is for new customers only and cannot be “stacked” for more space. This is a lifetime service, not an annual subscription!

NewEgg Pre Black Friday Sale with 1000+ items

NewEgg launched a new Pre-Black Friday sale with over 1000 items participating. Use the various tabs up top and the left sidebar over there to filter them by products or areas of interest. I will try to digest these later today! If only I was IBM’s Watson I would have done so already in the time it took to write this sentence 🙂

Tamrac Tradewind Backpack 24 for $40 w/free S&H

Cameras have their early adopters, and so do camera bag fans 🙂 The new condition Tamrac Tradewind Backpack 24 in the Slate color scheme is on sale for $40 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo… For more offers, check their Featured Deals

Dell Black Friday Doorbusters begin Wednesday 11am ET

Get ready! The Dell Black Friday Doorbusters begin today (Wednesday 11/15/17) at 11am eastern!

According to the teasers, among the featured items they will have:

+ Inspiron 15 3000 for $200 (Celeron, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 15.6″ HD)
+ Dell 27 Gaming Monitor model S2716DG for $400
+ Dell Essential Backpack 15 for $15
+ supplies are limited on the doorbusters, so YMMV

Steadicam Merlin 2 Camera Stabilizing System for $249

The new condition Steadicam Merlin 2 Camera Stabilizing System is currently on sale for $249 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo as a limited time promotion… For more offers, check their Featured Deals

LED Light Bulb Sale: 16pk Philips 60W-eq for $20+, 6pk AB 100W-eq for $20+

Light is light! On the budget side of lighting, a number of LED light bulbs are on sale:

+ 16 pack of Philips LED A19 (2700 Kelvin Soft White, 8.5W = 60W equivalent, E26 base) for $20~
+ limit five per customer

+ 16 pack of Philips LED A19 (5000 Kelvin Daylight, 8W = 60W equivalent, E26 base) for $21~
+ limit five per customer

+ 6 pack of AmazonBasics LED A21 (5000 Kelvin Daylight, 14W = 100W equivalent, 1400 lumens) for $20

+ 6 pack of AmazonBasics LED A21 (2700 Kelvin Soft White, 14W = 100W equivalent, 1300 lumens) for $22

+ the Philips are currently the Top Sellers at Amazon, while the Daylight AmazonBasics (AB) is in the Top 10

Tripods: Vanguard 264AB-100 for $170, Manfortto 190Go! for $190

A new 2-Day Sale at Adorama features a couple of name brand tripods with free shipping as follows:

+ Vanguard 264AB-100 4-Section Aluminum Alloy Alta Pro 264-AT Tripod Legs with SBH-100 QR Ballhead, Maximum Height 64″, Supports 15.4 lbs for $170

+ Manfrotto 190Go! 4-Section Aluminum Tripod Kit with Center Ball Head, 61.4″ Max Height for $190

+ no coupons, no rebates, just add to cart and proceed to checkout

(ENDED) The Dell Laptop Lightning Deals are here: Dell XPS 15, Inspiron 21.5″ AiO, Etc

These semi-hidden Dell laptop lightning deals expired…

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(ENDED) Thursday: Impact 3 Light Kit for $180, 27″ LG Monitor $280, LensCoat Sleeves $28+

These expired but for more action, check the B&H Featured Sales

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(ENDED) Thursday coupon: $10 off $50+ orders at Rakuten

This 1-day coupon expired…

For Thursday 11/16/17 until 11:59pm pacific time, coupon code GIFT10 gets you $10 off a purchase of $50+ at the Rakuten website. The usual coupon restrictions apply.

(ENDED) YI 42.5mm F1.8 Lens with Macro Mode for $100 [m43]

As of a 11/22/17 recheck, the price went back up to $200… I will be monitoring the situation to see if the discount returns in the next few days…

YI is back with another doorbuster, this time it is not an action camera, but a Micro Four Thirds lens! The silver color scheme of the YI 42.5mm F1.8 Lens with Macro Mode is on sale at the moment for $100 with free shipping by YI with the orders fulfilled by Amazon. You can buy as many as you like. This is an old fashioned sale, not a lightning deal.

Optionally if buy the lens together with the YI M1 Battery and Charger, you can use coupon code WCRQLY4P to get 20% off the price of the charger/battery (20% off $20 = $16). The lens does not use the battery, it is used in the YI M1 camera 🙂

(ENDED) Refurbished Olympus 12mm f2 silver for $429 [m43]

As of a 11/17/17 AM recheck, this sold out… Prime fans scooped it up at almost half the current price of the new condition… For the latest refurbished options, check the Olympus Outlet store

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(ENDED) Insignia Extension Tube Kit for Canon EOS Lenses for $17

This lightning deal expired…

There’s not a lot of time left on this, good until 10:05pm ET today, the Insignia Extension Tube Kit for Canon EOS Lenses is a lightning deal for the very specific price of $16.76 with free 2-day shipping for Prime members or with a $25+ order. The price before the sale was $21 last night when I posted the schedule.

(NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED) Heads Up: lots of Dell computers go live at Amazon Gold Box on Thursday at 3am ET

UPDATE 11/16/17 at 9am ET I’m not sure what happened to these. They are nowhere to be found. I didn’t save the individually links of the laptops for forensic analysis… Unfortunately these type of alerts are only as good as the Gold Box Lightning Deals Upcoming schedule is accurate…

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(ENDED) Trade In Your Gear at KEH Camera for a Gift Card (instead of cash), And Receive Coupon for Future Purchase ($100 off $500+ future purchase)

This promotion expired…

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4-Day Computer Sale at B&H Photo

B&H Photo just launched a 4-Day Computer Sale featuring a variety of laptops and desktops and AiOs. You can use the various product type and price range tabs up top (over there) to filter them by your interest. You can also filter by brand on the right hand side. This is based on a desktop. The page layout may be different on mobile or laptop. More on these tomorrow… For more B&H offers, check their Featured Deals

Panasonic G9 returns to Amazon

A few days ago the option to pre-order the Panasonic G9 at Amazon disappeared, but as of the time of writing, the option to pre-order this for $1700 has returned at Amazon. I have no clue why it disappeared. AI Bots Gone Wild? 🙂

You can see how it stacks up price-wise with other mirrorless camera in last week’s Mirrorless Price Chart. Its announcement came just as I was preparing the charts. If I was a day early, it wouldn’t have made it. So sometimes being late pays off 🙂

Speaking of Panasonic, a number of their M43rds cameras, lenses and fixed lens cameras are on sale. You can find them all under the Panasonic category, or under the Mirrorless section of the Black Friday 2017 Situation Room. It looks like mayhaps they are trying to steal a march on the other camera manufacturers by rolling out their sales earlier.

Wednesday: Usual Camera/Photo accessories, Etc

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Canon PIXMA PRO 100 Printer with 50pk SG-201 paper for $80 after $250 MIR (prepaid AMEX Gift Card)

If you are not afraid of mail-in rebates and prepaid AMEX gift cards, for a limited time, B&H Photo is offering the new condition Canon PIXMA PRO 100 Printer with the 50pk Canon SG-201 13×19 inch photo paper for $80 after a $250 mail-in rebate (prepaid AMEX gift card). This is a limited time offer.

YMMV: 8% back in eBay Bucks [no minimum]

It’s the Union of the Two Towers ~ in a good way ~ if you are an eBay shopper.

As previously mentioned, running until next Monday morning is a big 20% off coupon promotion for all.

And here comes the second, stackable offer: IF you are participating in the eBay Rewards program, you may have also been invited to participate in another Bonus Bucks promotion, you get 8% eBay Bucks without a minimum purchase amount until Thursday 11/16/17 at 11:59pm pacific time.

First you have to manually activate the offer from the eBay email or your eBay messages (if invited/selected to participate). Some exclusions apply as usual and the maximum rewards you can earn is $100 per transaction, and $500 during the promotional period.

A good place to look for ideas are the eBay Deals along with the Trending Deals (shows only 100 trending deals, less overwhelming to look at than their main deals page). There’s also a dedicated search box there that searches only the Deals, not everything else on eBay.

Another way to look for ideas is our eBay Category posts here…

More Black Friday Ads Digested

Another buffet of BF ads has been digested in our Black Friday Ads Digest of 2017 with another handful of stores including Overstock, Microsoft and more. The new additions have been integrated to the various categories as usual. The biggest addition with this group was a mystery GoPRO HERO5 bundle at Overstock with lots of accessories but no price given 🙁

Here’s an example of the breakdown by category. As you can see, by grouping them together, the Nikon D3400 two lens kit that is offered at many places only appears once in the list, making it easier to skim and scan:

As usual, most of these will be price-matched by the internet sellers by (or often before) the actual Black Friday.

Still available: Pentax K-1 Silver Limited Edition

The Pentax K-1 Silver Limited Edition (body only with official battery grip) is out of stock and cannot be ordered at Amazon and B&H Photo, but hope is not lost!

Adorama comes to the rescue. As of the time of writing it remains in-stock and shipping for $2200 with free expedited shipping over there. Optional financing offers are available with the new Adorama Credit Card.

Yes, Adorama has an official credit card, offered by Comenity Capital Bank per the listing over there.

40% off SmugMug subscriptions

Good until 11/27/17, you can get 40% off on SmugMug subscriptions. There is no coupon code to enter, the promotion is factored in at their website.