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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
These semi-hidden Dell laptop lightning deals expired…
These expired but for more action, check the B&H Featured Sales
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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.
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 🙂
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…
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.
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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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…
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.
There are over 50 items listed in the Camera & Photo lightning deals of the Amazon Gold Box.
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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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
We have an in-stock alert of a different kind! Version 57 of Firefox for Windows is now out, and it’s a blazer. This time for real! This was a long-planned version to de-slugfest-ify Firefox and it’s working so far. Very noticeable difference in speed! Only issue is that the “New Tab” page is pre-populated with crap, but you can quickly remove them by clicking on the Settings Wheel (from the New Tab page) and unclicking the five things that are defaulted on).
More details on the new release via Techmeme including a profile of the new developments at C|Net.
CreativeLIVE is going to be running a variety of specials during this season as well. At the moment, their featured promotion is 50% off Photography Bootcamps, among which:
+ Portrait Photography Bootcamp for $74
+ Boudoir Photography Bootcamp for $74
+ Adobe Lightroom CC Photo Editing: The Complete Guide for $99
+ Newborn Photography Bootcamp for $149
+ 28 Days of Portrait Photography for $149
+ Master the Business of Photography for $149
No coupon is needed, the sale price is reflected on their website while this promotion is running. This is a sale on existing classes, they are not airing for free promotionally.
PS: Clarifcation ~ the Newborn Photography class is photography of newborns, not teaching newborns about photography 🙂
Make your own deal! Groupon is having a NewEgg Gift Card Promotion. You buy a NewEgg gift card, and receive 10% off that amount as a promotional NewEgg gift card. The options are $50 (get $5 bonus) or $100 (get $10 bonus) or $200 (get $20 bonus). This is a limited time offer.
The middle two models of the four Sony RX10 series cameras have dropped $100 since last week when we posted the Fixed Lens Camera Charts last week as follows:
+ RX10 II for $1100 at Adorama (with freebies) and B&H Photo (with freebies) and Amazon
+ RX10 III for $1300 at Adorama (with freebies) and B&H Photo (with freebies) and Amazon
This is the first time I noticed this is in-stock, I’m not sure when it became in-stock in the first place. It is Sony’s RX0, an elementproof action camera with a 1-inch sensor and RAW support. It is in-stock at its starting price of $700 at Adorama and B&H Photo and Amazon where a 3rd-party seller (K&M Camera Store) is offering a bundle for the same price with various free accessories (64GB SD, case, etc) with the orders fulfilled by Amazon.
We have yet another Panasonic camera that got discounted since last week. The Panasonic ZS100 superzom went for $700 last week when I posted the Fixed Lens Cameras price chart but now it is down t o $598 at authorized dealers which also include free accessories or promotional rewards such as Adorama and B&H Photo and various at Amazon.
Amazon has revealed teasers for their Black Friday Ads via press release. Of camera and photo interest:
+ Save up to 35% on select SanDisk memory products
+ Save up to 25% on select Seagate hard drives
+ Save on Bushnell Binoculars
+ Save up to 25% on Nikon Coolshot 80 Rangefinder
+ Amazon Prints: holiday cards are 50% off (starting 11/19)
+ various discounts on Amazon’s own hardware devices, HDTVs, etc
+ sales begin November 17 (this Friday)
These too have been integrated into our Black Friday 2017 Ads Digest.
Official manufacturer created two-lens bundles are all the rage these days. Olympus too has joined the party with the official Olympus Travel Lens Kit with the 14-150mm f4-5.6 II and 17mm f1.8 micro four thirds lenses. It is currently on sale for $699 at Adorama (with $28 rewards) and at B&H Photo (with $28 rewards) and at Amazon itself (5% rewards with PRIME VISA) and Get Olympus. The kit also includes a lens pouch and a lens hood for each one of the lenses (they are of very different size obviously).
On their own, the 14-150mm II goes for $600 while the 17/1.8 goes for $400. So that’s a $300 combined purchase discount.
More eBayLandia action, the official BuyDig eBay store is offering the new condition LG 27″ Full HD IPS Dual HDMI Gaming Monitor, model 27MP59HT-P, for $148 with free shipping. Limit up to three units per buyer. Over 680 units have been sold so far from this listing. This is 1080p with HDMI and VGA inputs.
More monitor action, BuyDig directly is offering the new condition 29-inch LG UltraWide Freesync IPS LED Monitor (2017 Model 29UM59A-P, 2560×1080) for $200 after coupon code c1178118222 until 11/20/17.
Also at BuyDig, good until 11/15/17, coupon code BCD71071 gets you the Samsung 28″ 16:9 UH750 QLED 4K Ultra HD Monitor for $389.
Then to Adorama’s eBay store we go where they have a couple of monitor offers as well:
+ Acer 24″ K242HL BD 1080p Full HD Widescreen LED Display for $99
+ Dell S2718H 27″ Infinity Edge Full HD IPS LED Monitor for $210
The Sony RX1 and RX1R 35mm full frame fixed lens cameras are starting to disappear from retailers. Both are gone from Adorama (RX1R and RX1R), while at B&H Photo both cameras are marked as “Special Order” (2-4 weeks) for both the RX1 and the RX1R.
As of the time of writing, both the RX1 and the RX1R remain readily available at Amazon but each camera has a limit of up to three per customer. The price remains at $2400 as you can see at the Fixed Lens Cameras charts of last week.
Of course the used cameras won’t magically disappear. You can get it used for less than half the price, it is available in “USED – Bargain” condition for $1199 at KEH Camera with a 180-day warranty from KEH Camera.
The Canon 5DS R body only goes for $3699 at authorized Canon dealers in new condition (eg Adorama), but if you are comfortable with mail-in rebates and prepaid AMEX gift cards, just like the 5D Mark IV, you can get the 5DS R body only with the PIXMA PRO 100 printer and 50pk SG-201 paper for $20 less after mail-in rebate.
Let’s start from the beginning. You pay $4029 at B&H Photo and receive the Canon 5DS R body only, the Pixma PRO 100 printer and the 50pk SG-201 photo paper. After you receive it all, and you file the mail-in rebate, a few weeks later, you receive a prepaid $350 AMEX gift card by mail, making it a $3679 after MIR.
The Canon 5D Mark IV goes for $3300 in new condition at various authorized dealers. But if you are not afraid of mail in-rebates and prepaid AMEX gift cards, you can actually pay slightly less (after rebate) and get the Pixma PRO 100 printer and 50pk SG-201 paper as well! Let’s start from the beginning…
At B&H Photo you buy the bundle that consists of the Canon 5D Mark IV body only, the PIXMA PRO 100 printer, and the 50pk Canon SG-201 photo paper for $3629 with free shipping. After you receive the order, make sure all is well, and submit the mail-in rebate, a few weeks later, you will receive a $350 prepaid AMEX gift card by mail. This will make it $3279 after rebate. That’s $20 less than the camera without the printer.
A similar offer is available for the with the 24-70mm and also with the 24-105mm.
Cloud action now! Stacksocial has a new limited time doorbuster, they are offering 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!
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