Dell’s “Black Friday in July” sale-a-bration

It’s only July, many months until Black Friday 2019, but nothing can stop retailers from launching “early” Black Friday sales. Even if it’s not a Friday 🙂 To sale-a-brate the 4th of July, Dell Home is running an early Black Friday sale featuring doorbusters launching at 11am eastern every day, along with various other offers on their laptops (regular and gaming) and their AiOs and 2-in-1s and computer monitors and TVs and various electronics and accessories and such…

But wait, there’s more. They are also running an MPP sale; no not a sale for MPs or of MPs, but it’s their Membership Purchase Plan or something like that 🙂

UPDATE: speaking of Dell, they are having a Dell Outlet sale as well, with special promotions on select Inspirons and Alienware among others….

July 4, 2019 Filed Under: technology deals Tagged With: ,

50% off sitewide at CreativeLIVE (no coupon)

Yesterday’s offer was a coupon promotion bu the 4th of July offer at Creative LIVE is a site-wide 50% off sale, no coupon code to enter. The price you see is the price you pay on their website while this promotion is running….

July 4, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

DiscountMags offers on the four photography magazines

All apologies for the delay in posting 4th of July deals. This has been one of those “technology bad hair days” where things that could go wrong did go wrong. Even the mouse ran out of batteries!

But we are baaaack and we have a 4th of July edition of the DiscountMags offers that includes the usual quartet of photography magazine offers:

+ Outdoor Photographer for $4.86 per year
+ Digital Photo for $4.55/yr
+ digital Photo PRO for $6.61 per year
+ VideoMaker for $6.81/yr

As usual, these are printed magazines delivered physically to US addresses. No auto-renewal. You can individually select up to three years per magazine and whether it’s a renewal of an existing subscription or a brand new one.

July 4, 2019 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With:

Prime Only (EU): 20% off select AmazonBasics products

Prime members have shopping benefits on the other side of the pond as well. Amazon Germany is offering Prime members of Amazon Germany a 20% off discount on select AmazonBasics products which includes over 300 eligible products, among which 400+ are in the Electronics product category, which is where the camera gear, batteries, cables and such can be found…

July 4, 2019 Filed Under: technology deals Tagged With:

Mirrorless Lenses under $500 (500+ options)

Among the latest action at Adorama (sales, instant savings, clearance, new arrivals, etc) they have a featured sale on Mirrorless Lenses under $500 with a staggering over 500 options available. OF course there are not 500+ individual/unique lenses, because most of the mirrorless lenses are available in multiple mirrorless systems. Participating in this sale are the camera manufacturers making lenses (Canon, Fuji, Sony, Panasonica, Olympus) , along with various 3rd party makers (Shiguma, Rokinon, Samyang, Meike, 7Artisans, HandEvision, etc)… There’s even two lenses for the good old adorkable Pentax Q system…

You can use the left hand side of the aforelinked pages to filter the results by manufacturer or “Lens Mount” or zoom ratio and so forth. Lots of filtering options.

PS: more posts with the various 4th of July sales in a few hours…

July 4, 2019 Filed Under: mirrorless deals Tagged With:

Thursday: Explorer Cases, Luxli, Goal Zero, Vinyl player

It’s music and lights in the Thursday quartet of B&H Photo daily deals running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Explorer Cases Medium Hard IATA Case 5221 with Foam & Wheels for $150

+ Luxli CNS-20D Constructor Medium Block On-Camera Daylight Balanced LED Light for $35

+ Goal Zero Light-A-Life Mini Quad LED Light Set for $50
+ not sure what it is, but it looks adorable!

+ Audio Technical AT-LP60BK-BT Turntable with Bluetooth Speaker Bundle for $99 together

July 3, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

YMMV: Send $50+ Amazon eGift Card via SMS, Get $5 promotional store credit

This is a YMMV as you would have to have been preselected for this offer by Amazon’s all-knowing and soon all-powerful AI. The gift card offer is this: send a $50+ Amazon e-Gift card via SMS using coupon code SMS2019 and you will receive a $5 promotional Amazon store credit.

You can obviously send the gift card to yourself as it is often the case with these type of promotions. The offer runs until late December 2019 so there’s no hurry to get it done right now ~ unless you want to that is 🙂

You may be able to see this type of an Amazon on-site banner follow you around [screenshot crop below]:

The terms and conditions and to find out whether you are eligible can be found at the aforelinked page. You have to be logged on to your Amazon account in order to find out if you are eligible since it is a YMMV / by-invitation type of offering…

July 3, 2019 Filed Under: gifts and gadgets Tagged With:

15% off site-wide at Stacksocial w/coupon

You can make your own type of deal with this limited time coupon promotion, coupon FIREWORK15 (not plural) gets you 15% off sitewide at Stacksocial…

For ideas on what to get, browser around over there, and/or check our previous Stacksocial posts…

July 3, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

50% off site-wide with CreativeLIVE coupon

For a limited time only, CreativeLIVE is offering you 50% off sitewide using coupon code EARLY4 entered in their shopping cart.

As you can guess, the parade of 4th of July deals and coupons has already began!

July 3, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

25% off select AmazonBasics SU batteries (AA, C, D, 9V, etc) with coupon

Here’s something rare, an Amazon itself coupon! For a limited time, coupon code POWER25 gets you 25% off the listed prices of select AmazonBasics batteries of the single use (SU) kind. Click on the banner over there for the terms and conditions of the offer…

There is a 48-pack of AA going for $14 before the coupon, along with C and D and 9V packs, and AAAA (yes, four As, not a typo), CR2032 (3V), hearing aid batteries, and other more rare batteries (23A, CR2 3V, CR123a 3V, etc)…

July 3, 2019 Filed Under: camera accessories Tagged With: , ,

Sigma ART Lenses Instant Savings (ends AUG-07-2019)

Sigma ART lens fans, unite (your wallets?) and take over! B&H Photo is having an instant savings promotion on select Sigma ART lenses until August 7 in 2019:

+ 35mm f1.4 DG HSM ART for $649
+ Canon EF, Nikon F, Sonya (okay, Sony A)

+ 70mm f2.8 DG Macro ART for $469
+ Canon EF, Sigma SA

+ 35mm f1.4 DG HSM ART for $649
+ Pentax K, Sigma SA

July 3, 2019 Filed Under: dslr deals, sigma Tagged With: ,

Wednesday: 3pk of 64GB Samsung microSDXC for $30

I am mostly using Samsung microSD cards these days, I have had zero issues with them ~ the same cannot be said with other brands I had previously used (Lexar, PNY, etc). Of course I am not a consumer reports test lab, so it’s only a small data point…

Which brings us to the Wednesday Woot Computers deal of the day a 3pk of 64GB Samsung microSDXC memory cards o the EVO Select kind (UHS-I, U3, C10, 4K UHD video, up to 100MB/sec read and up to 60MB/sec write) for $30 with free shipping for Prime members or $6 flat for non-members. It comes out to *calculating* *calculating* $10 per card 🙂

You can buy up to ten 3-packs per customer at the sale price. They come with a 10-year Samsung warranty. These are the 4-Proof kind (water, extreme temperatures, X-Ray, magnetic fields).

MEANWHILE at the main Woot, their deal du jour is a sale on various iPad PROs: the 12.9″ 2017 and 2018 models, and the 11″ 2018 model. Prices range from $570 to $1060… And at “Electronics” there’s the refurbished scratch&dent LG V20 former-flagship Android smartphone going for $100 with a 3-month Woot warranty…

July 3, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals, memory cards and storage, samsung Tagged With:

Zhongyi Mitakon 85mm f1.2 MF for $649 (Canon, Sony E), $699 (Nikon F), $749 (Pentax K), $849 (Sony A), $899 (Fuji GF)

Do you like fast primes, and manual focus? If so, there is a sale on the Zhongyi Mitakon Speedmaster 85mm f1.2 manual focus lens as follows:

+ at B&H Photo the Canon EF and Sony E go for $650, the Nikon F for $700, the Sony A for $800, and the Fuji GF for $850

+ at Adorama.com the Sony E and Canon EF go for $649, while the Nikon F goes for $700
+ the Pentax K and Sony A are special orders and go for $750 and $800 respectively
+ the Fuji GF (not X) goes for $849

+ if you prefer to shop through Amazon (eg the 5% cashback rewards), the above price are available by various sellers (including Adorama) through amazon.com…

July 2, 2019 Filed Under: dslr deals, mirrorless deals Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

Wednesday: Marcus VT-3000 Tripod w/FH for $90 (or w/Dolly for $122), FotorGear Wand, Etc

It’s a Trio but it doesn’t sing “Da Da Da”. It’s not a bird, nor a plane, it’s the Wednesday B&H Photo daily deals running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if any sells out during Hump Day):

+ Magnus VT-3000 Tripod System with Fluid Head for $90
+ or with Magnus Dolly for $122

+ FotorGear Magilight LED Light Painting Stick / Wand for $199

+ Jarv Mobile 20W Dual Wireless Charging Pad for Qi-Enabled Devices for $15
+ looking at the screen from afar this may look like something DJs use 🙂
+ no relation to DA Jarvis or Bixby

Meanwhile on the other side of the pond, among the Amazon Germany daily deals, there is a PacSafe sale featuring 14 items with prices ranging from 36 to 108 euro…

July 2, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Complete Photography Bundle for $35 [Stacksocial]

Stacksocial is offering for a limited time this $35 Complete Photography Professional Bundle that includes eight courses with a combined 250+ courses. You will find a detailed list of the classes further down the page over there. They include Wedding, Mac-related, candid moments, finding great light, perspective and some “getting started” type of classes for DSLRs and photography in general.

These are online streaming courses with lifetime access. There are deadlines on redemption. Unredeemed licenses can be returned for Stacksocial store credit within 15 days of purchases.

July 2, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

128GB Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Type A for $17 [limit 4]

If you need USB 3.1 Type A flash storage of the compact kind and don’t want to wait for the next big Sandisk sale, at the moment, Amazon itself is offering the new condition 128GB Sandisk Ultra Fit flash drive, model SDCZ430-128G-G46, for $17 with up to four per customer at the sale price. Free shipping for Prime members or with a $25+ order (eg two of these).

I had one of these (not sure if it is this exact model) that I was using as storage for one of those small OTA Antenna budget-chinese DVR boxes and it worked without missing a beat. Problem was that the budget DVR recorded things at MPEG2, so you’d use about 4GB per hour (depending on how it was transmitted, 1080i? 720? etc?)…

PS: “Fit” is the name Sandisk uses to describes the small USB flash drives. It is a bit longer but decidedly thicker than a microSD memory card. You can even forget you have them in your laptop’s or desktop’s USB port.

July 2, 2019 Filed Under: Uncategorized

AMEX Membership Points on Amazon: $30 off on $60+ purchases

This is a YMMV promotion ~ if you are eligible it will appear in your shopping cart or follow you around as you visit various Amazon pages…

The offer is this: if you make a purchase with an American Express credit card at Amazon over $60, you will receive a $30 off discount in the shopping cart. To get this discount, you must pay at least partially for the purchase using American Express Membership Rewards points. But first, you must manually activate the offer for your account ~ eg at the aforelinked page…

You typically have an option how much to pay with AMEX Membership Rewards points, and this is good because it is not a favorable ratio. So you could pay $2 worth with the AMEX points and the rest with your credit card.

The offer works only on products sold and shipped by Amazon itself, not by 3rd-party sellers. Digital content purchases are not eligible. You can find all the terms/conditions over there…

July 2, 2019 Filed Under: financial

Tuesday: Dracast LED, 5″ SmallHD, InFocus DLP, Etc

Tuesday is here and with it we have another new quartet of B&H dailies running until 11:59pm ET today (or earlier for anything that manages to sell out ahead of its designated expiration time):

+ DraCast 728 RGBW LED Panel for $189

+ SmallHD FOCUS 5″ Base HDMI On-Camera Monitor for $279
+ bundle with NP-FZ100 for $399

+ InFocus IN2138HD 4500-Lumen Full HD DLP Projector for $499

+ Lorex DVR for $250

July 1, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Monday: Canon XF300 PRO camcorder, LEGGo, CoreSWX, 6TB LaCie

Monday is upon us with the start of another (work)week and this quartet of B&H daily offers runs until 11:59pm ET on said day (or earlier if sold out):

+ Canon XF300 Professional Camcorder for $1999

+ LEDGo Bi-Color Flood Shoot-Through LED Ring Light for $119

+ Core SJW Nano 2-Battery Kit with X2S Vertical Charger (V-Mount) for $449

+ LaCie 6TB Porsche Design USB Type-C Desktop Drive for $115

June 30, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Sunday: Sigma 100-400/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemp (C/N) for $549, AquaTech, SpyPoint, Acorn, Etc

It’s a bird, it’s a lens! Among the Sunday quartet of B&H Photo daily deals, the headliner is a Shiguma zoom lens of the CaNiKon kind:

+ Sigma 100-400mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary for $549 in Canon EF or Nikon F

+ AquaTech AxisGO Water Housing for iPhone 7 or 8 (Seashell White) for $79

+ SpyPoint LINK-DARK Cellular Trail Camera (Verizon Data Plan) for $250

+ Acorn Masterkey 25 – USB MIDI Controller for $35

June 30, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals, dslr deals, sigma Tagged With: , , ,

Fri/Sat: $35 Meade bino, $80AR Lowepro PS RL150 Roller, Etc

FriYAY is here and with it we have the 48-hour long B&H daily deals good until Saturday 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out. As usual, B&H does not accept orders between Friday PM and Saturday PM because of the Sabbath, thus the 48-hour cycle instead of the 24-hour cycle.

The four offers are:

+ Lowepro PhotoStream RL 150 Roller (Black) for $80 after a $50 mail-in rebate

+ Marantz AVS Audio-Video Streamer All-In-One Broadcasting System for $120

+ Meade 10×42 RidgeWay Binocular for $35

+ Wooden Camera Hot Shoe Camera Handle for $90
+ confusing things, the hot shoe handle is NOT made of wood ^_^

June 27, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Double the Rewards with Adorama CustApp sale

For a limited time, Adorama is offering double rewards during their customer appreciation sale. This happens automatically while this promotion is running ~ no need to enter a coupon code…

June 27, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With:

Thursday: 10% off EX+ and EX used gear at KEH w/coupon

It’s Flash (no, not Flash Gordon) but a flash coupon sale running until Thursday at 11:59pm eastern time at KEH Camera. Using coupon code EXP6A you can get 10% off on camera gear in used “EX+” and “EX” conditions. “EX” of course being “excellent”.

As usual exclusions and restrictions apply, eg no Leica branded products…

June 27, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: , ,

Thursday: 512GB Centon USB 3.0 Stick for $40, Acer Computers and Monitors sale

One of the Woot daily deals for Thursday is the new condition 512GB Centon Datastick PRO USB 3.0 flash drive offered for $40 with free shipping for Prime members or $6 flat calendar-day shipping. Limit up to ten units per customer at the sale price. It comes with a 5-year Centon warranty. Sale ends, as usual, at 11:59pm central time or earlier if it sells out…

Meanwhile another variant of the Computers and Accessories sale is running at the Amazon USA Gold Beaux for Thursday, the theme of today’s offerings is ACER. Products with an Acer brand that include a $240 15.6″ Chromebook (4GB RAM of course, ChromeOS is bloating too), Windows laptops and desktops and AiOs (general purpose, gaming, budget, ranging from $550 to $2000), along with a variety of computer monitors ($110 to $640) and various other computer and gaming accessories (keyboards/mice, backpacks, etc). Limit two of each item per Amazon account during this sale which ends, as usual, at 11:59pm pacific ~ or earlier for anything that manages to sell out…

Speaking of the Gold Box, as a warm up to the upcoming Prime Day 2019, Amazon is offering for Prime members only, the new condition Toshiba 43LF421U19 43-inch 1080p Smart LED TV, the Fire TV Edition, for $180 with free shipping. Limit one per customer. There’s no rush to get it, this sale lasts for four days (unless it sells out ~ but I’m guessing they wouldn’t have put it up for four days if they knew it had reasonable chances of selling out faster)…

June 27, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals, technology deals Tagged With: , , ,

Thursday: Vello Timer Remote Switch, LG Q7+ BTS, Syrp Genie

Thursday brings in another quartet of B&H Photo daily deals running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out) as follows:

+ Vello ShutterBoss II Timer Remote Switch for for $70 in seven system options

+ LG Q7+ BTS Edition (Unlocked)
+ 5.5″ FHD+, Snapdragon 450, 4GB RAM, 64GB storage, microSD, BT 5.0, etc
+ North American Variant, 3-months prepaid Mint Mobile included
+ yes BTS the boy band

+ SYRP Genie Mini Panning Motion Control System for $169

PS: not a daily deal, but if you need some wireless name-brand headphones at a good price, Amazon itself is offering the new condition V-MODA CrossFade WireLess for $100 with up to three per customer. This is not a lightning deal, so expiration date/time unknown…

June 26, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

1-Year Prepaid CreativeLIVE Creator PASS for $199 after coupon

The coupon promotion is back. This time around coupon code 100VIPGIFT drops $100 off the $299 standard price of the Creative LIVE Season Pass, making it a prepaid $199 purchase for the first 12 months of your subscription.

With this, you can watch almost all the classes (present and future) Netflix-style, but once the subscription is over, you do not own any of them [unless you had previously purchased them digitally]. There are however some exceptions due to prior agreements with a few content creators: the excluded classes are listed at the Exclusions page…

Having said that, if you have a more flexible schedule, there are LOTS of classes you can watch for FREE when you follow the free limited-time showings at the ON-AIR Schedule page. This is also when brand new classes premiere as they are live-recorded at their studios in Seattle. Being in pacific time, expect classes to start at noon if you are in the Big East [now with UConn once again???] / Eastern time zone…

June 25, 2019 Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: ,

Wednesday: Vanguard Sedona 43 DSLR sling for $30, 1TD WD $40, ASUS 15.6″ RoG, Etc

Hump day is here once again, as it often does every seven days and with it we can haz a new 4-pack of B&H daily deals good until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):

+ Vanguard Sedona 43 DSLR Sling Bag for $30 each in three color options

+ WD 1TB Elements Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive for $40

+ ASUS 15.6″ Republic of Gamers GL503GE Strix Scar Edition Gaming Laptop for $799
+ 2.2 GHz i7-8750H Six-Core, 8GB DDR4, 1TB FireCuda SSHD, 15.6″ 1920 x 1080 120 Hz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4GB GDDR5), etc

+ TP-Link bulbs / smart home things for $25 to $40

June 25, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Save the Date: Woot Turns 15 on July 12

Save the date for potential Woot-OFFs and other sales and giveaways. Woot is turning 15 years old on July 12 in 2019 per their latest email, so stay tuned for promotions around that date… Here’s the teaser from their email:

June 25, 2019 Filed Under: shopping news Tagged With:

Corel Aftershot PRO 3 software [digital] for $30

For a limited time, Stacksocial is offering the Corel Aftershot PRO 3 software on sale for $30 as a digital download…

PS: don’t forget to use any store credits and/or coupons you may have to drop the price further down [if eligible]… This applies to all Stacksocial offerings, not just this one…

June 25, 2019 Filed Under: apps and software Tagged With: ,

Monoprice USB Type-C to SD 4.0 Card Reader for $12 w/FS

Monoprice is having an End of Quarter sale (yes, the 2nd quarter is also over, the time is almost ripe for yet another round of “Earnings Season” and subsequent stock market “excitement”) that includes over 150 items, including…

… the Monoprice USB Type-C to SD 4.0 Card Reader for the very specific price of $12.35 with free US shipping. It averages 4.7 out of 5 based on 11 customer reviews over there…

June 25, 2019 Filed Under: camera accessories Tagged With: