I got this message today from a friend of a friend:
FYI... If you plan on purchasing any Canon camera -- You will need to do so in the next couple of days. As of Nov 1st. NO retail sales of Canon products will be allowed to sell the product for a discount. (Same online)
What this means is many dealers are going to try and sell down stock. So the sales are going to be the lowest right now.
Has anyone heard about this? I can't find anything online to back it up, but I did notice today that the 5dmkiii is under 3k now on Amazon.
The 5d3 is on sale for $2994 at B&H. I'm going to BB tomorrow to see if they will honor my price match as I bought it less than a month ago for $3500. If they don't, I'm returning it and getting it from either B&H or Amazon.
With their economics crashing, why on Earth would such a rumor be true. That'd send everyone running to Nikon. My guess is their sales are also slow because of the blast of different releases with half-ass quality. Also, they're confusing the hell out of everyone with the bazillion different offerings. If I were buying my first camera, I'd hesitate too.
lilyphoto wrote:
NO retail sales of Canon products will be allowed to sell the product for a discount. (Same online)
I heard about this recently. I don't know the exact details but B&H was affirming it's true. Canon will be following along with Nikon in enforcing uniform pricing with stiff penalties for those dealers who don't comply.
amonline wrote:
With their economics crashing, why on Earth would such a rumor be true. That'd send everyone running to Nikon. My guess is their sales are also slow because of the blast of different releases with half-ass quality. Also, they're confusing the hell out of everyone with the bazillion different offerings. If I were buying my first camera, I'd hesitate too.
Canon makes a lot of other products other than cameras. Just because profits are down, doesn't mean that Canon is going out of business, nor does stiffening its pricing policies mean anything but positive.
Yeah, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. But Canon does need to drop the price of their gear to normal levels. That's the thing that's going to hurt them the most.
