5D-III $2,899 /Authorized dealer

sapearl wrote in post #15163417
You see - here's the thing. I honestly don't know anything about these folks. They could be quite reputable for most things. But again this is an "in demand" item at a hot price. No thanks. When I get my MKIII it will be either locally or from BH, Adorama or one of a couple other proven, reliable dealers. Just my opinion

ditto. I keep looking at the best buy and wal mart coupon sites for the larger 20% off anything deals. Right now the 5dmk3 is $3100 there. I"m hoping it gets around 2800.. since that's what I have saved to buy it

Gaarryy wrote in post #15163538
ditto. I keep looking at the best buy and wal mart coupon sites for the larger 20% off anything deals. Right now the 5dmk3 is $3100 there. I"m hoping it gets around 2800.. since that's what I have saved to buy it

That won't be $3100 if you buy it from BB or Walmart. Tax will add around $200 on top of it.

You guys are too paranoid about getting it on B&H or not. If it has valid US warranty then I'm pretty sure you will be dealing with Canon anyway.

Sold! I can't keep waiting to save ~$150 for a deal that is not available at the present time. They are an Ebay Top Seller + an authorized Canon dealer. Looks like I'll have a 5D Markii for sale...

Interesting. Recently, we've seen a string of companies that have a long-standing, documented history of shady practices and bad reviews...but they're doing business on eBay with relatively decent reviews. For example, Big Value Inc has an absolutely horrible background and years of documented scams, but they're track record on eBay is really good and everyone that recently ordered a Canon 5D Mark III during the recent eBay deal received a good 5D MIII in a very timely manner. The only potential issue was that it may be a grey market item...but that wasn't entirely clear...and Canon USA may service them anyway if there was an issue.

Now here's this company. DataVision. Selling the 5D Mark III on eBay for a good price. They have about the worse ratings you could possibly imagine on Reseller Ratings, but they're eBay rating is relatively decent. (A close look at their eBay track record shows a bad rating about 1.5% of the time over the last year.) Again, the store itself gets terrible reviews, but they seem to do business fairly well on eBay.

What gives? If you're going to serve customers well on eBay, why not do the same with your regular internet store front?

Bryan

Black Friday is around the corner, I am holding my breath for it...

Canon 5DIII, comes to papa....

Gaarryy wrote in post #15163538
ditto. I keep looking at the best buy and wal mart coupon sites for the larger 20% off anything deals. Right now the 5dmk3 is $3100 there. I"m hoping it gets around 2800.. since that's what I have saved to buy it

How do you get the 20% off any deals from walmart?

bps wrote in post #15163640
What gives? If you're going to serve customers well on eBay, why not do the same with your regular internet store front?

because people takes effort and energy to complain about stuff on sites like reseller ratings, while good experiences usually go silent. check out dell's, target's and walmart's for example.

gpswiz wrote in post #15163690
Black Friday is around the corner, I am holding my breath for it...

Canon 5DIII, comes to papa....

As a heads-up, there hasn't been a really good Black Friday deal in years on the higher end Canon bodies. If anything, they usually target the entry-level consumer and you'll occasional see a deal on a Canon Rebel.

For the most part, the really good Canon 5D Mark III deals have only been through eBay and that's it. I would keep my eBay account up to date, and remain ready to pounce when a good deal pops up. And the best deals we've seen are in the $2,700-$2,900 range (there's only been a few) and if you're willing to go to the trouble of selling items, there's been quite a few good bundle deals where the final price of the camera body (after selling all of the other items) is in the $2,650-$2,750 range.

Good luck and happy hunting -- I hope you score one soon!

Bryan

vaflower wrote in post #15163402
This seller had a serious debacle on the sale of the 100$ HP touch pad a few year ago. They must have like a few hundred 1 star for that instance.

+1

during that time, absolutely NO reseller came out looking nice. people just complained every site selling it, and newegg did the wisest thing (not selling it).

HyperYagami wrote in post #15163735
because people takes effort and energy to complain about stuff on sites like reseller ratings, while good experiences usually go silent. check out dell's, target's and walmart's for example.

Very good point!

Bryan

I bit the bullet and placed an order.

I bought one as well.

bps wrote in post #15163640
Interesting. Recently, we've seen a string of companies that have a long-standing, documented history of shady practices and bad reviews...but they're doing business on eBay with relatively decent reviews. For example, Big Value Inc has an absolutely horrible background and years of documented scams, but they're track record on eBay is really good and everyone that recently ordered a Canon 5D Mark III during the recent eBay deal received a good 5D MIII in a very timely manner. The only potential issue was that it may be a grey market item...but that wasn't entirely clear...and Canon USA may service them anyway if there was an issue.

Now here's this company. DataVision. Selling the 5D Mark III on eBay for a good price. They have about the worse ratings you could possibly imagine on Reseller Ratings, but they're eBay rating is relatively decent. (A close look at their eBay track record shows a bad rating about 1.5% of the time over the last year.) Again, the store itself gets terrible reviews, but they seem to do business fairly well on eBay.

What gives? If you're going to serve customers well on eBay, why not do the same with your regular internet store front?

Bryan

Don't forget, these review sites like Reseller Ratings, anyone can leave ratings so as long they sign up.

With eBay, in order to leave feedback you have to purchase something. So with Reseller Ratings, if someone didn't like 1 little thing, they'll go and complain on those type of sites. I try not to believe what the negative have to say about it. If say for instance, they were out of stock the moment they ordered or it was cancelled because its not in stock, they'll go and give them negative remarks.

As we all know B&H and Adorama are reputable sites. If you go on their, I'm sure you'll find disgruntled buyers leave negative reviews.

They dropped the price to $2,799. Great thing is, they even refunded the $100 difference.

Price dropped to 2799