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I just updated the Stock Status Tracker. On the Fuji X-T2 body, an eBay Auction is currently in progress with a current price of $1250 and 6 bids but the auction ends on Tuesday at 12:42pm eastern, which is an eternity for auctions. This is described as “New Other” with the original box not included. This is by an individual eBay seller with 100% feedback.
Meanwhile the Olympus E-M1 II body only is on track for a December 12 release, with pre-orders accepted at Amazon and B&H Photo and Adorama.
This offer expired too… To the Trending eBay Deals where the official DJI store is offering the manufacturer-refurbished with 1-year warranty DJI Phantom 3 Standard with 2.7K Video for $349 with free shipping with a limit of up to five units per customer.
Storage time! The new condition 8TB G-Technology G-RAID External Dual-Drive Storage System is currently on sale for $400 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo, one of their latest Featured Sales.
On the other hand, if you are comfortable with used storage, you can get this in used condition for $279 plus shipping (under $15 for most zipcodes) at Adorama.
Speaking of storage, the NewEgg eBay store is offering the new condition 3TB TOSHIBA Canvio Basics Portable Hard Drive (USB 3.0 Model HDTB330XK3CA Black) for $100 with free shipping with a limit of five per customer.
Speaking of external HDDs, Adorama is offering the Adorama is offering the 1.5TB Seagate Expansion 2.5″ Portable External USB 3.0 Hard Drive for $60 with free shipping.
Among the top shelf of the eBay Deals, the official GoPRO eBay store is offering the manufacturer refurbished GoPro HERO4 Black Edition Camera with a 1-year warranty for $299 with free shipping with a limit of five per customer. Over 2000 units got sold so far.
Speaking of the GoPro official eBay store, they are also offering the manufacturer refurbished GoPro HERO4 Silver Edition Camera with a 1-year warranty for $219 with free shipping.
Back to the eBay Deals where batteries are included! The official Best Buy eBay store is offering new condition 24-packs of Rayovac AA single use batteries for $5.89 with free shipping or free store pickup. Limit up to thirty 24-packs per customer. This averages to around 4 batteries per $1.
There are many other battery promotions in progress, including the 1c Duracell Rewards offer at Office Max/Depot, a 60pk of Rayovacs for $10 at Home Depot stores and 72pks of Sony Stamina at Woot, and such.
All the batteries above are single-use, but on the rechargeable front, the newer precharged 8-pack of AA AmazonBasics continues to go for $16.89. Meanwhile the previous generation (from the looks of it) 12pk of AAA rechargeables goes for $13.
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.
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.
The updating of the Holiday Shopping 2016 Situation Room continues, and one offer I forgot to post here is among the latest eBay Deals, eBay seller “voodublu”(99%) is offering the new condition Lytro Illum light field camera (the “normal size”, not the PEZ dispenser one) for $249 with free shipping with a limit of five per customer. Over 400 units got sold from this listing so far per the eBay data over there. Note that Lytro is out of the consumer camera business!
Another eBay Bucks promotion was rolled out earlier today by eBay. As usual with these, they are YMMV because I don’t know if they sent this to everyone or a subset of the eBay users. This current iteration is 8% eBay Bucks with no minimum purchase required. The standard eBay Bucks percentage is 2%. As usual, you have to manually activate the offer (press a button in the email or eBay message/app), and you are good to go. The offer ends on Wednesday at 11:59pm Pacific time. The usual restrictions apply.
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 printer is making the rounds at the eBay deals, it is the new condition Canon Pixma MG3620 Wireless Inkjet All-In-One offered for $26 with free shipping with a limit of five units per customer by BuyDig on eBay.
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The Nikon D750 body only full framer goes for $1800 in new condition at authorized dealers that are bundling various free accessories with it, eg Adorama and B&H Photo…
However, if you are comfortable with manufacturer refurbished DSLRs, the Buydig eBay store is offering the manufacturer refurbished Nikon D750 body only with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty for $1250 with free shipping with a limit of up to five per customer. Nearly 250 units got sold so far from this listing. This is among the buzzworthy Trending eBay Deals.
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The Trending eBay Deals have their doorbusters too, the official GoPro eBay store is offering the manufacturer refurbished GoPro HERO3+ Silver Edition with a 1-year manufacturer warranty, sealed in factory packaging, for $117 with free shipping with a limit of two units per eBay buyer.
PS: I have now separated action cameras, drones, 360 cameras and such from the Fixed Lens Cameras category which is now only including conventional P&S digital cameras. The rest of them (GoPros, DJIs, 360-cameras, etc) go under the all-encompassing Other Cameras category.
As of a 9:37pm ET recheck, this sold out: The eBay Deals have their own Black Friday sales, in a herding cats type of a fashion, and among them, there’s a 4TB external hard drive for $90! The BuyDig eBay store is offering the new condition 4TB Seagate Expansion USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive, model STEB4000100, for $90 with free shipping, with a limit of five per buyer. Nearly 500 units have been sold in the last 24 hours per the statistics-in-red-ink over there.
Speaking of storage, the fish-stick or fries equivalent in storage these days are the USB flash drives, so if you want some more fries, the Thursday Lexar and Crucial storage has the following:
+ 256GB Lexar JumpDrive S75 USB 3.0 Flash Drive (model LJDS75-256ABNL, White) for $36.75
+ 128GB Lexar JumpDrive S75 USB 3.0 Flash Drive (model LJDS75-128ABNL) for $19
+ 128GB Lexar JumpDrive P20 USB 3.0 Flash Drive (model LJDP20-128CRBNA) for $37.49
+ limit three of each; ends by Fri 3am ET
Off to the Trending eBay Deals where authorized DJI dealer “DroneSuperstore” (100%, New York) is offering the new condition DJI Phantom 3 Standard edition with a $45 eBay Gift Card for $399 with free shipping, with a limit of five per customer… The lowest Black Friday Ad is $370 but without a gift card, so if you are a frequent eBay shopper, the $45 gift card can win you over…
This offer among the latest eBay Deals has batteries included – that’s because the offer itself is batteries 🙂 Lame joke aside, the official Best Buy eBay store is offering their house brand 48pk Insignia AA single-use batteries for $10 with free shipping or free store pickup (where available/possible). Limit up to 30 per customer… The same offer is available for the AAA 48-pack with the same limit of up to 30 packs per customer.
As of 11/25/16 recheck, this sold out with nearly 2500 units sold from this eBay listing…
Plum cameras are all the rage at the eBay Deals, the Buydig eBay store is offering the manufacturer refurbished Nikon Coolpix L840 superzoom (38x optical, AA power) in the plum color scheme for $119 with free shipping with a limit of two units per customer. It comes with a 90-day Nikon USA warranty. The other two colors (black, red) are sold out.
Back to the eBay Deals, where NewEgg’s eBay store is back with yet another promotion, the new condition 3TB Toshiba Canvio Basics Portable Hard Drive (USB 3.0, Model HDTB330XK3CA) is on sale for $80 with free shipping with a limit of five units per customer during this promotion, which sold over 1300 units so far.
UPDATE: speaking of eBay, as one of the Trending Deals, ANTonline is offering the new condition 1TB Sony PlayStation 4 Pro for $370 with free shipping and a limit of five per buyer. They are authorized dealers with a Sony warranty. Over 1850 units sold so far.
To the latest eBay deals we check-upon where we find the imported grey-market new condition Canon 5D Mark III body only offered for $1800 with free shipping and a 1-year warranty by the seller (not Canon USA). The seller is “Electronics Valley” (99.7%, New Jersey, limit 3 per customer)… For price research, check the 35mm Full Frame Price Charts…
UPDATE 11/22/16: the price dropped from $1850 to $1800
Nikon is slowly trying to bring the price of their APS-C flagship closer to earth, it is more expensive than the entry-point 35mm full frame DSLRs of the three major systems [see 35mm FF Price Chart], and now they are bundling it with the official Nikon MB-D17 battery grip along with other assorted accessories at authorized dealer discretion…
At Adorama you additional get the Corel Software Bundle (including Aftershot PRO X2, PSP X8), a 32GB Sandisk SDHC, a 24/7 holster, and three small accessories (cleaning kit, memory card wallet, table-top mini tripod)… At B&H Photo, you additionally receive a 64GB Sandisk EXTreMe PRO SDXC, a Lowepro hatchback (not a car, a camera bag), and 2% promotional rewards ($36~ to be used in future purchases at B&H)…
On the other hand, if you want to optimize for a lower price, and you don’t want/need the battery grip or the other extra accessories, then to the eBay Deals we go, where the new condition imported grey-market Nikon D500 body only is offered for $1450 with free shipping by eBay seller Electronics Valley (99.7%, New Jersey) with a 1-year warranty from the seller (not Nikon USA). Limit five per customer.
The Nikon D810 body only is bundled with the official battery grip and other accessories at authorized dealers for $2500. However, if you don’t want/need the grip and the free accessories, and you want to optimize for a lower price, and you are comfortable with imported grey-market camera gear…
… among the latest eBay Deals, you can get the new condition imported grey-market with a 1-year seller warranty (not Nikon USA) Nikon D810 body only for $1999 with free shipping by eBay seller “Department_Store_NYC” (99.3%, New York) with a limit of five units per buyer.
eBay is back with another Bonus Bucks promotion, you earn 8% eBay Bucks on individual items priced at $50 or higher (that’s the item price, before taxes or shipping). As usual, you have to manually opt-in to the offer before you get the bonus. Also note that this may be offered to a subset of eBay users, either on a rotating basis or a “big data” basis, so that’s why I say YMMV since I have no way of knowing what percentage of eBay users is being offered this which expires Tuesday November 22 at 11:59pm pacific time.
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.
As of a 11/20/16 AM re-check, this eBay listing ended…
While surfing around the eBay Deals, this surfaced, in USED good condition, you can get the Pentax 50mm f2 SMC A K-Mount lens for $15 with free shipping, sold by Roberts Camera (99.5%, Indianapolis)… You can also try to officially negotiate a lower price using eBay’s “Best Offer” feature.
UPDATE the auction for this eBay-user-owned Fuji X-T2 body only ended at $1575 with 8 bids.
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To the Trending eBay Deals we go where the razor/cartridge strategy is in full display. NewEgg is offering the manufacturer refurbished Canon PIXMA MG2520 Inkjet All-In-One Color Printer for $13 with free shipping with a limit of five per customer. Free shipping is nice considering the price. However, this comes without ink. So you are buying the razor, but you can’t shave or print 🙂
Speaking of eBay and printers, the Ritz Cameras eBay store (ships from New Jersey) is offering the new condition HP Envy 5540 Wireless All-in-One Photo Printer for $60 with free S&H with a limit of five units per customer.
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