Hmmm this sounds too good to be true. I ran across an ad from Rogerscamera.com showing the Canon eos 5D Mark II for 1399.00 Body only
Any ideas what is up with this price, Has the economy gotten this bad.
dwile38 wrote:
Hmmm this sounds too good to be true. I ran across an ad from Rogerscamera.com showing the Canon eos 5D Mark II for 1399.00 Body only
Any ideas what is up with this price, Has the economy gotten this bad.
you need to pay $1500 for the markii battery kit that turns the 5dmki into a 5dmkii though
I ran across one of those sweet sounding deals but I did not bite. I'd rather spend the money to get a quality product. Now if you had cash in hand and can walk into the establishment to conduct business face to face, then that's another story as long as it's legit.
In the case of most of these places - which for some reason seem to like to base themselves in Brooklyn, NY - there is no "establishment" to walk into. (There's a website set up by a guy who tracked down the addresses of these places & went around taking photo's of their registered storefronts which makes for entertaining viewing) Typically, they don't have the product you order anyway, & the name of the game is to sell you something else (that they make a big profit on).
trumpet_guy wrote:
This general advice should be a sticky for each gear board:
"If the price is too good to be true, assume it is not true,
and look elsewhere."
For sure that is good general advice in life, yet cheap people are attracted to a scam like a moth to a light.
I think the best way to avoid this stuff is to really just know the market on the item you are trying to buy. The retail of the 5d Mk II right now is $2699. If someone is selling a used one, probably the best you could do is $2400 or thereabouts (given locality, seller's circumstances, etc. - surely urgency or cash sale will maybe bring it down, but like $100, not $1000). Even the most "used" MkII right now is still pretty new.
So when junk like that comes around, i.e., a half price situation on the hottest Canon product ... I just roll my eyes. It's not worth the time and anguish to ferret out whether it is real or not. It probably is not.
