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The Fuji X-T2 body only goes for $1600 in new condition at authorized Fuji USA dealers as you can see at the Stock Status Tracker but if you are comfortable with imported grey-market cameras…
… to the eBay Deals we go, where eBay seller “Deals All Year” (99.9%, New Jersey) is offering the new condition imported grey-market Fuji X-T2 Body Only for $1355 with free shipping and a 1-year warranty from the seller (not Fuji USA).
To the eBay Deals we go where the official DJI eBay store is offering the manufacturer refurbished DJI Phantom 3 Professional with 4K Video for $569 with free shipping and a one year warranty from DJI. Limit five per customer.
As you may recall from our recent 35mm Full Frame Cameras Price Chart, the Nikon D750 body only goes for $1800 at authorized dealers, which are allowed to bundle it with free items, eg free 1-Year Photographers Cloud at B&H Photo.
But if you want to pay less, and you are comfortable with refurbished, you can get it in refurbished condition with a 90-day warranty for $1399 at B&H Photo.
On the other hand, if you are comfortable with imported/grey-market cameras, then to the eBay Deals we boldly go (where a CBS All Access subscription is not necessary) where eBay seller “6ave” (99.1%, New Jersey) is offering the new condition imported/grey-market Nikon D750 body only for $1290 with free shipping. Limit three per buyer. It comes with a 1-year warranty from the seller “6ave”, not Nikon USA.
As you can see, there are options, and that’s before you factor in the used market. It is good to have options ~ just ask anyone without options 🙂
If you live in the iTunes ecosystem and don’t want to wait for better discounts to appear, then to the eBay Deals we go where the PayPal’s official online gift card e-store (aka PayPal Digital Gifts) is offering $100 iTunes email Gift Cards for $85. Free online delivery. Limit up to four per customer during the sale.
Of camera and photo interest, there’s a variety of camera/photo iOS apps, and a variety of photography e-books and camera guides in the iBooks store. Note that iBooks e-books can only be read on Apple hardware, the biggest difference between iBooks and the other major online e-book stores.
Speaking of emailable gift cards, if you are a fan of Staples, PayPal Digital Gifts has a promotion for them too, buy a $100 Staples Gift Card via email and receive a $15 bonus eBay code via email. So you end up with a $100 Staples e-gift card and a $15 eBay promotional e-gift card.
NOTE: PayPal Digital Gifts only sells emailable/digital gift cards, so if you are looking for plastic/physical gift cards and you see PayPal Digital Gifts as the seller, they won’t have them.
The official DJI eBay store is one of the eBay store participating in the 20% off coupon promotion using coupon code PBACK2SCHOOL20 by 7/16/17 at 11:59pm pacific time.
One of the items eligible for the coupon, shown at the very top of the Camera Drones listing is the manufacturer refurbished DJI Phantom 3 4K WiFi Quadcopter 4K Video going for $439 with free shipping and a 1-year DJI warranty. The price before the coupon is $479, the coupon drops it to $439 as the maximum discount with this coupon is $50.
This coupon expired, but if you missed it, fear not! eBay is running coupons on a regular basis these days…
This is a PSA! The eBay Bucks rewards you may have earned for the month of June are now ready to spend! Check your eBay emails or eBay messages or the relevant part of the eBay website that shows the eBay Bucks. Thanks to the new terms of the program, you don’t have to earn at least $5 per month to spend your rewards. Now any amount is good. The downside of the changes is that they lowered the default earning percentage from 2% to 1%, but they have recurring “Bonus Bucks” promotions.
The new reward certificate expires 8/2/17. If you are looking for ideas on how to spend it, check the eBay Deals along with the Top 100 Trending Deals.
As you can see below, I have a big shopping spree to plan 🙂 Even if the exclamation point I added somehow becomes factorial, it’s still a very small amount 🙂
eBay is back again with another coupon. Coupon code P20JULY4TH gets you $20 off a purchase of $100+ from the 61 participating retailers. You can find the list and terms and conditions at the Coupon Promotional Page which runs until 3am ET on July 5 in 2017.
Some of the sellers have technology items, including VM Innovations, Gear XS, Tech Rabbit, Samsonite, eBags, etc.
There are plenty of Nikon APS-C dSLRs floating in the camera in new, refurbished and used conditions, so you have plenty of choices for a “take pictures with” kit. One of these choices is buzzing around in the eBay Deals, offered by Beach Camera. It is the manufacturer refurbished Nikon D3400 Two Lens DX Kit with the 18-55mm f3.5-5.6G VR and 70-300mm f4.5-6.3G ED non-VR lenses. Both are DX lenses. They all come with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty and they are all manufacturer refurbished. Limit five per customer.
NOTE: if you are eligible, don’t forget to activate and use the 8% eBay Bucks promotion before buying. The 8% promotion expires Friday at 3am ET.
This is YMMV ~ I do not know if eBay offers this to everyone or a subset of their registered users. Good until Friday 3am eastern (6/30/17), you earn 8% eBay Bucks on your purchases This particular promotion has no minimum purchase price, so even a $1 item will get you bonus bucks.
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. The email title announcing this promotion is not as clear as previous ones, but it has “eBay Bucks” in it, so look for that if you are skimming or filtering eBay emails.
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 Archive posts.
As of 6/27/17 PM recheck, this sold out with exactly 4000 units sold..
Back to the eBay Deals, where PayPal Digital Gifts is offering a $100 eBay Gift Card (email delivery) for $95 with free email delivery. Limit one per customer. This is essentially a 5% discount on everything you buy with this gift card.
Back again to the eBay Deals, where the official DJI store is offering a DJI Mavic PRO Drone bundle that includes two extras, an Extra Battery and the Car Charger Bundle included automatically, for $999 with free shipping. Since it is sold by the DJI store, you get the manufacturer warranty. Limit five bundles per customer.
Back to the eBay Deals where the Cameta Camera eBay store is offering the manufacturer refurbished Nikon 55-200mm f4-5.6G DX VR II for $100 with free shipping. As usual with refurbished Nikon gear at Cameta, they come with a 1-year warranty from Cameta, not a 90-day warranty from Nikon.
This surprise 6-hour flash coupon expired…
It looks like we may have a pattern here. The ebay coupon expired last night, and lo and behold, a new eBay Bucks promotion is running today. So they may be alternating? I’ll pay attention to see if this is an on-going pattern…
This is YMMV ~ I do not know if eBay offers this to everyone or a subset of their registered users. Good until Friday 3am eastern (6/23/17), you earn eBay Bucks on your purchases depending on the item purchase price. Items over $50 get 10% eBay Bucks, items between $25 to $50 get 8%, and items under $25 get 6%.
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.
One great way to take advantage of this promotion is the new condition factory unlocked Samsung Galaxy S8+ (Midnight Black) offered for $700 with free shipping by Samsung’s official eBay store. No contract, no obligation to any carrier, and you can use it on all four major US carriers (Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon) and their assorted sub-carriers (MetroPCS, Cricket, etc) and MVNOs (Page, Republic, TPO, etc). 10% of $700 = $70 in eBay Bucks to be spent in future eBay purchases!
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 Archive posts.
Back to the eBay Deals with a de-UPC printer. That’s a printer whose UPC was removed from the box but it is otherwise unused/unopened. Most likely printers purchased using the Canon PIXMA mail-in rebates but not needed by their original owners and sold to others.
So if you don’t want to deal with the Canon PIXMA mail-in rebates and AMEX gift cards, you can get a new condition de-UPC’ed Canon Pixma PRO 10 printer for $340 with free shipping by eBay seller “Electronic City Inc” (99.3%, New York). Limit five per buyer.
This is a higher risk than buying new condition with UPC intact from authorized dealers, so it’s up to you to decide where you draw the line on risk and convenience (not having to deal with mail-in rebates (MIR) and/or gift cards). But if you prefer the lower risk approach, you can get it for $450 after a $250 MIR (prepaid AMEX GC) at B&H Photo.
To the eBay Deals we go where the official Best Buy eBay store is offering the new condition Olympus TG-870 waterproof P&S camera for $250 with free shipping with a limit of up to three per customer. Its regular price is $280.
Speaking of eBay, continuing is the 8GB Sandisk Ultra Class 10 SDHC card, model SDSDUN-008G-G46, for $7 with free shipping from Ritz Camera’s eBay store (98.9%, New Jersey).
UPDATE: speaking of eBay also, the official NewEgg eBay store is offering the new condition Playstation PS4 PlayStation VR – Standalone for $300 with free shipping when you do the “add to cart” song and dance.
UPDATE: OOPS! This expires Tuesday night, not Monday 🙂
eBay is back with another coupon promotion and this new one is running until June 20 at 11:59pm pacific time. Coupon code PSUMMER20 gets you 20% off select products priced $25+ individually from 40 different eBay sellers, including Beach Camera, Ritz Cameras, eBags, Sky Mall, Samsonite, and more. You can find details on the promotion and eligible sellers at the Promotional page over there.
The maximum discount with the coupon is $50, meaning items priced over $250 will get a flat $50 off discount (20% of $250) instead of 20% off the total amount. You can use the categories on the left hand side over there to filter by categories.
PS: CORRECTED: the coupon expires June 20, not June 209 🙂
More developments since the previous time we updated the Stock Status Tracker, the new condition imported grey-market Panasonic GH5 body with a 1-year seller warranty is down from $1883 to $1839 by eBay seller “6ave” (99%, New Jersey).
Storage and options are increasing in desktop external hard drives, and if you prefer the 6TB size, the new condition Western Digital MyBook Desktop External Hard Drive (USB 3, model WDBBGB0060HBK-NESN) is on sale for $150 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon itself and by Best Buy on eBay (limit three as well).
As I am preaching the importance of backups, I am realizing that I am behind on my backups too 🙂 Which brings us to an external desktop USB 3.0 hard drive sale, it is the new condition 4TB Seagate Expansion Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB4000100) on sale for $100 with free shipping by NewEgg on eBay (limit five per customer) and at Amazon by Amazon itself.
PS: if buying on eBay, don’t forget the 10% eBay Bucks promotion if you are eligible. It expires at 3am ET on Saturday.
This is YMMV ~ I do not know if eBay offers this to everyone or a subset of their registered users. Good until Saturday 3am eastern (6/17/17), you earn 10% eBay Bucks on your purchases. This time around there is no minimum purchase price per item. Even $1 items earn the bonus. 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.
One great way to take advantage of this promotion is the new condition factory unlocked Samsung Galaxy S8+ (Midnight Black) offered for $700 with free shipping by Samsung’s official eBay store. No contract, no obligation to any carrier, and you can use it on all four major US carriers (Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon) and their assorted sub-carriers (MetroPCS, Cricket, etc) and MVNOs (Page, Republic, TPO, etc). 10% of $700 = $70 in eBay Bucks to be spent in future eBay purchases!
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 Archive posts.
To the eBay Deals we go where the Ritz Cameras eBay store is offering the new condition 8GB Sandisk Ultra Class 10 SDHC card, model SDSDUN-008G-G46, for $7 with free shipping (from New Jersey). You can buy as many as you like. You get free shipping whether you buy one memory card or a trillion.
Speaking of eBay, if you want baseball caps to color match your shooting location, a variety of colors is offered for $6 with free shipping each. They ship from New Jersey. They have almost 30 different color schemes. They are the typical one size fits all. Details and size charts further down the product description.
Meanwhile the official Google eBay store is offering new condition Chromecast devices for $30 with free shipping, with a limit of up to five units per customer.
The official Samsung eBay store (yes, almost everyone is on eBay these days), is offering the factory unlocked new condition Samsung Galaxy S8+ (Plus; the larger model), model SM-G955U, in the Midnight Black color scheme, with 64GB on-board storage, for $700 with free shipping and a Samsung USA warranty. Limit up to five per customer.
You own the phone and you can use it on any carrier, it is one of only a few smartphones that are what I call “uber carrier”, they work with all four major USA carriers (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile) and their various MVNOs. There are many benefits to getting an unlocked no-contract phone, but historically Samsung has not been giving their previous unlocked flagship phones OS updates as fast as they did the carrier-branded ones. There’s only one unlocked color at the moment.
On the other hand, if you want an “uber carrier” phone without breaking the bank, B&H Photo comes to the rescue! They offer the Motorola Moto G (4th Generation) for $160 in the 2GB RAM / 16 GB storage) option, or for $200 you can get a better value/performance combo with the 4GB / 64 GB storage. RAM being the more important factor as you have a lot more flexibility in terms of multi-tasking and using big apps.
Various options are available for the Fuji X-T2 body only during this update of the Stock Tracker.
On the USED front, the price seems to have settled at $1400
+ OneCal (OPEN BOX)
+ Adorama (USED)
+ eBay (USED)
+ Amazon Waerehouse Deals (USED)
New Condition remains $1600
+ Adorama
+ Amazon (various)
+ OneCall
This is YMMV ~ I do not know if eBay offers this to everyone or a subset of their registered users. Good until Sunday 3am eastern (6/11/17), you earn 8% eBat Bucks on items individually priced $50+. You have to manually activate the offer first 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 Archive posts.
eBay hearts coupon promotions these days and a new one is running until June 9 at 11:59pm pacific time. Coupon code PJUNESAVINGS10 gets you 10% off select products priced $25+ individually from 37 different eBay sellers, including Ritz Cameras, VM Innovations, 47th Street Photo, Red Tag Camera and more. You can find details on the promotion and eligible sellers at the Promotional page over there.
The maximum discount with the coupon is $100, meaning items priced over $1000 will get a flat $100 off discount (10% of $1000) instead of 10% off the total amount.
The new Nikon D7500 APS-C DSLR is now in-stock and shipping for $1250 as a body-only, but if you prefer to pay half of that and get a previous generation model, then to the eBay Deals we go…
… where the Buydig eBay store (99%, New Jersey) is offering the manufacturer refurbished Nikon D7200 body only for $650 with free shipping and a 90-day Nikon USA warranty. Limit five units per customer.
Strategically, this is not an unreasonable strategy. Once a model is no longer “the latest model”, going for a manufacturer refurbished ~ as long as it has a solid discount over the new-condition ~ is a good way to make the most of your $$$. As long as you are comfortable with refurbished and such.
The Canon 5D Mark IV body only goes for $3300 at authorized dealers which are allowed to offer a variety of free accessories, for example, various sellers at Amazon or B&H Photo (4TB HDD, 64GB SDXC), but if you are comfortable with imported grey-market DSLRs…
… to the eBay Deals we go where eBay seller “Electronics Valley” (99.7%, New Jersey) is offering an imported grey-market Canon 5D Mark IV body only with a 1-year seller warranty (not Canon USA) for $2800 with free shipping. Limit three units per buyer.
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