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Full frame action now, B&H Photo is including two $150 B&H Photo gift cards (total of $300) with the purchase of the Sony a7S II body only at its authorized dealer price of $2998 with free expedited shipping.
PS: silver lining of getting $300 in two gift cards is that they can make two separate holiday gifts 🙂
In addition to the previously mentioned Canon G5 X getting a free white box 90EX flash, the Canon G1 X II is also getting the same flash for free for a limited time at B&H Photo, going all together for $649 with free shipping. It also receives 2% promotional rewards, about $13 to be used in future B&H purchases.
A new shopping week is here and Walgreens Photo has a new coupon, code PHOTODEAL50 gets you 50% on “Everything Photo” which covers most of the photo-related print offers they have. The usual terms apply, The coupon expires on Wednesday 12/7/16 at 11:59pm Central (unless it gets extended to Saturday same time – sometimes they get extended, sometimes they don’t).
Brunch is synonymous with Sundays, but pancakes are not served this Sunday. Instead it is the Panasonic 25mm f1.7 micro four thirds lens going for $148 with free shipping with $6 promotional rewards at Adorama and B&H Photo… Optionally you can extend the warranty via a Panasonic mail-in rebate (PDF with instructions are available at the aforelinked retailers)…
This offer expired… The current flash sale at the B&H Photo Daily Deals, good until 11:59pm ET tonight (Sunday) is the ExpoImaging 58mm ExpoCap Digital White Balance Filter going for $18 with free shipping. Both this and the daily deals expire at 11:59pm ET tonight.
It’s coupon time on Sunday, coupon code WINTER gets you 15% off almost everything at the Monoprice website. The usual terms and restrictions apply. You can “test” the coupon by entering the coupon in the shopping cart and clicking on the coupon “details” to see exclusions, or you can put the items of interest in the cart and enter the coupon and see the discounting.
This flash sale ended… In addition to the day-long deals, the B&H Photo Daily Deals also include flash sales, offers that only run a few hours each (instead of the full 24 hours). Currently running until 9am ET on Monday is the Vivitar 1.4x Teleconverter for $70 with free shipping in either Canon or Nikon.
These daily deals expired… [Read more…]
These lighting deals expired… For future ones in the future, check the Amazon Gold Box and Camera & Photo page…
The Polaroid Cube+ 1440p Mini Lifestyle Action Camera with Wi-fi is on sale in the red and cyan-blue color schemes for $100 each, in new condition, by various at Amazon. The red is only available from third-parties, while the blue is available from both third-parties and Amazon itself.
The latest email from the Adorama emailing list has a new promotion, a Secret Holiday Sale. If you make purchase at certain levels, you receive promotional gift cards. For example, a $200+ purchase gets you a $20 promotional gift card, a $500+ gets a $50 promotional gift card, and a $1000+ gets a $100 promotional gift card. The promotional gift cards must be spent between December 12-31 in 2016. The offer ends on Sunday December 4 at 11:59pm eastern.
The terms are outlined at the bottom of their email:
“Promotion ends 12/4/16 at 11:59 PM. Eligible purchases must be made via Holiday Secret Sale email promotion only. Secret Sale coupon codes will be emailed to customers, who have made an eligible purchase through our email-only Holiday Secret Sale promotion, in the form of a redeemable coupon code sent on 12/12/16. Offer valid for in-stock items only. Not valid for orders placed by phone. Not valid for previous purchases. Returns on purchases made through the holiday Secret Sale promotion, are subject to a deduction in the equal amount of the coupon received. Secret Sale coupon codes are good for purchases made between 12/12/16 and December 31st, 2016.”
This promotion is a bit confusing. Here’s the TL;DR: you can make a $3 profit by loading $10+ each on three Amazon gift cards sold together as a 3-pack that includes three holiday greeting cards. You invest $33 and make a $3 profit. The profit is a promotional credit that must be spent by 3/31/17. So let’s start from the beginning…
… Amazon launched new awkwardly named Anytime Greeting Card Gift Cards, sold as a 3-pack with a current price of $3 per 3-pack. Despite the hints of the name, these are not reloadable gift cards. You can only load them once per the lifetime of the card. I have no clue why they call them “Anytime” which hints of reusability and reloadability. Just like regular Amazon gift cards, the “Anytime gift card” don’t expire and they don’t have inactivity or other fees.
Free shipping on the cards for Prime members or the usual $49+ (or $25+ in books). You could stack this offer with the Book Coupon offer to get free shipping with a smaller order total.
A promotion is running on these until 12/31/16 that gets you a $2 promotional credit when you load $10 or more on a single Anytime gift card. Since these are sold as a 3-pack, you have to load $10 on each of them, and you get $6 total in promotional credits. So you spend $30 (three $10 loads) plus $3 for the gift cards, and you receive a $6 promotional credit.
I should point out that these are not just physical gift cards, they also include printed holiday greeting cards. They have two designs, a blue general holiday theme and a red Christmas theme. So technically you make a $3 profit and you also get three free holiday greeting cards 🙂
PS: I haven’t done this offer yet, so I can’t tell you the Xs and Os, but there are currently 7 reviews and 6 answered questions about them on the gift card listing that may answer your potential questions.
On the single-use battery front, if you are near a Home Depot store or if you are planning an order that gets free shipping, they are offering a 60-pack of Rayovac AA single-use alkalines for $10. That’s six batteries per $1, which is not a bad price for name-brand batteries. Their website has detailed inventory updates per store location.
PS: also on the single-use batteries front, Office Depot-Max are running weekly 1c After Rewards promotions on Duracell 16-packs of AA or AAA.
Store cards are one of the staples of established brick and mortar chain stores, so it’s not a surprise the practice is spreading more and more online. For a limited time, NewEgg is offering $25 off an order of $200+ with coupon code TECHMAS16 when you pay using the NewEgg Store Credit Card. You may see banners like this on their website and apps:
These offers expired… The teasers in the Amazon Gold Box lightning deals, which can also filter them at the Camera and Photo page and the Electronics page, are filed under “more of the same” for Sunday, the usual brands of studio/lighting kits and tripods and such. Due to time constraints I cannot produce a detailed schedule for this tonight.
This particular sale ended, but this refurbished critter is frequently discounted across the interwebs… Another Gold Box lightning deal, good until Sunday at 1:20am eastern, is the certified refurbished Nikon WU-1a Wireless Mobile Adapter for $21.56. This is sold by Beach Camera with the order fulfilled by Amazon, so it gets free 2-day Prime shipping, or the usual $25+/$49+ terms for non-Prime members.
This lightning deal expired, and from the looks of it, it didn’t last the full six hours…
The Canon PIXMA MX922 Wireless All-in-One Printer is on sale as a limited time 2-day sale for $55 with free shipping at Adorama… For more action check the Adorama Cyber Week Specials and Clearance and Sales pages…
The Canon PowerShot G5 X is bundled with a white box Canon Speedlite 90EX (a free accessories) for its standard price of $699 with free shipping at B&H Photo. Checkout will be available there again after Saturday 5:45pm ET.
Back to the eBay Deals where the official DJI eBay store is offering the manufacturer refurbished DJI Phantom 3 Professional with 4K Video for $599 with free shipping, with a one year warranty. Limit five per customer.
A Twitter question got my looking, and it looks like as of the time of writing, there is a general promotion at Moosejaw (they have B&M stores in Michigan, and a trio of other states), you get a $50 promotional gift card (must be used by 1/31/17) with purchases of $250+, which includes the GoPro HERO5 Black which goes for $400. If your order total there is $499+, your promotional gift card is $100.
Use coupon code MJCard16 to get the promotional gift card. Doing the time math, the promotion expires (if my time-math is correct) at 12/5/16 at 11:59pm ET. Here’s an annotated screenshot of their storewide promo gift card promotion:
The Black Friday offers were $60 store gift cards at Target and Amazon from what I recall.
So many GoPros, so little time, this one is back with a gift card promotion, it is the GoPro HERO5 Session (the tiny one) bundled with a $45 plastic Amazon gift card, all together for $300 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon itself with a limit of bundles units per customer.
PS: with a lot of the camera gear, there’s also a two-step Shutterfly promotion running, check the ”
Special Offers and Product Promotions” section of products of interest to see if they are eligible for this.
This weekend’s sale at Discount Mags is a Top 100 Best Prices of the Year type of a promotion, featuring two photography magazines among the many others. Both are printed glossy magazines delivered to US addresses, without auto-renewal. You pay $4 per magazine per year for Outdoor Photographer or Popular Photography. You can sign-up for up to three years per individual magazine, and individually select whether it’s a gift or new-subscription or a renewal. Offer ends Monday night.
The Canon 18-135mm is more versatile as a beginner lens than the 18-55mm and in this case the versatility costs $100 more, which for many, it may be well worth the 20 extra PSLs 🙂 But as always, we blog, you decide!
Adorama is having another round of Canon Pixma AMEX mail-in rebate bundles, good until Sunday night (or earlier if sold out, or later if extended).
The bundles center on the Canon D-Rebel T5i with two lenses, the Pixma PRO 100 printer, its 50pk 13×19″ photo paper sidekick, and a Canon shoulder bag. Both options get the 75-300mm f4-5.6 III non-USM lens. The difference between the two kits is that one comes with the 18-55mm IS STM lens, while the other kit for $100 more gets the 18-135mm IS STM lens.
Good lord this is a long winded post, so here are the links before I continue for another ten paragraphs:
+ D-Rebel T5i w/18-55 & 75-300 & Pixma PRO 100 printer + 50pk 13×19″ + Bag for $430 after $350 mail-in rebate (prepaid AMEX gift card)
+ D-Rebel T5i w/18-135 & 75-300 & Pixma PRO 100 printer + 50pk 13×19″ + Bag for $530 after $350 mail-in rebate (prepaid AMEX gift card)
Details on the rebate promotion in the PDF file.
Pentax does not have a monopoly on pancakes, Canon photographers can now have pancakes and have enough money left for some maple syrup too 🙂 The manufacturer refurbished Canon 40mm f2.8 STM EF with a 1-year warranty is offered for $100 at the official Canon USA store.
Speaking of USB 3.0 flash drives, the 64GB Centon Electronics model S1-U3P6-64GB is on sale for $13.49 with a limit of up to three per customer at Amazon by Amazon actual. The usual free shipping terms apply.
Speaking of Amazon and storage, this 8TB Seagate Expansion Desktop External Hard Drive (USB 3.0, model STEB8000100) goes for $170 with free shipping with a limit of up to five per customer. This is not color-coded, but you can add round sticky labels (such as these) on them to color code them on the fly 🙂
This is turning into a battery blog 🙂 Good until the end of the year (12/31/16), Office Depot and Office max brick and mortar stores and their website are offering the 1c Duracell Batteries after Office Depot Rewards. The limit is two per customer per week across all purchasing platforms (online, in-store, by phone or fax or telegram or raven). The week is defined as Sunday AM until Saturday PM. If you are buying online avoid the overlap between late Saturday PM to early Sunday AM to prevent time-change and website maintenance issues.
You can find these online as well, shown at the Office Depot Rewards page. Page towards the bottom to see the terms and conditions (or use your browser’s in-page search feature to search for “Duracell”). Per the terms these will be issued separately from the monthly rewards, which is a very good thing (the monthly rewards are only issued in $10 increments so you typically don’t get all your rewards [sneaky way to avoid paying the full amount of rewards earned).
This is a screenshot, View Larger, since the rewards page is not a very responsive design.
The terms are the same as before, you buy a 16-pack of single-use Duracell AA or AAA battery. You pay full price ($13.99) plus sales-tax (if collected in your store/state) and you make sure your Office Depot rewards number is on the receipt (or if buying online in your account profile) because that’s how their computer will know to send you your rewards. You don’t need to mail anything or use a coupon. About three weeks later (give or take), you will find $13.98 of Office Depot rewards in your Office Depot rewards account. You may not get an email alert, so don’t forget to check there. This is limit two for the week.
This also may appear in the weekly ads, this is the December 4-10 (2016) ad:
NOTE that the new-era Office Depot/Max rewards do NOT roll over. If you pay for a rewards-earning item with rewards, you will NOT earn new rewards. You can’t roll them over. The rewards have expiration dates, so if you want to max out, make sure you also plan how to spend all those rewards in the future before they expire. Office Depot-Max carries all kinds of things, so it shouldn’t be hard – as long as you need it that is. Or you can always buy supplies on clearance/sale, and donate them to local schools and charities and non-profits 🙂
The longer-running Woot Electronics deals feature a Sony Stamina Plus single-use battery sale featuring 72pks of AA or AAA for $19 each, with a limit of up to three per option. The sale also includes C, D, and V packs (of different sizes and prices). The AA + AAA is sold out but the rest are in-stock. Shipping is the usual $5 flat for everything you buy at Woot during a calendar day in the Central time zone. The sale ends 12/31/16, so one could wait until they find something else to buy from Woot (eg daily deals or future Woot-Off), so they can pay shipping only once.
And now a flash drive doorbuster at the eBay Deals, eBay seller “Refurb for Less” (98.8%, California) is offering the new condition [PRO TIP: choose your eBay names carefully!] 32GB Toshiba USB 3.0 Flash Drive (model PFU032U-1BRG) for $11 with free shipping, with a limit of five per customer.
This is a retractable flash drive, not a detachable. The one picture there is confusing, you may think it’s a tiny thing like the Sandisk Ultra Fit, but it’s not. Look at the pictures further down the description at Amazon to get a better feel of its size and shape and usage.
The Nikon D750 body only goes for $1800 at authorized dealers who include various free accessories (eg Adorama) but if you are comfortable with higher-risk imported items…
… among the Trending eBay Deals, eBay seller Red Tag Camera (99.9%, Brooklyn) is offering the new condition imported grey-market Nikon D750 body only for $1299 with free shipping with a limit of five per customer. Nearly 1700 units got sold from this eBay listing so far. This only comes with a 30-day seller warranty, no warranty from Nikon USA, so this is for the higher-risk-taking shoppers.
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