Canon Instant Rebates : May 3 - July 11, 2009

[Mark Elberson]

This is from a popular rumor site. I couldn't verify this promotion on Canon's site but I'll admit that I didn't look very hard []


CANON INSTANT REBATES: May 3 - July 11, 2009


Camera Bodies


EOS 50D Kit + EF-S 18–200mm f/3.5–5.6 IS - $300
EOS 50D EF-S 18–200mm IS Kit - $300
EOS 50D EF 28–135mm IS Kit + EF-S 18–200mm f/3.5–5.6 IS - $300
EOS 50D Kit + EF 70–300mm f/4–5.6 IS USM - $150
EOS 50D EF 28–135mm IS Kit + EF 70–300mm f/4–5.6 IS USM - $150
EOS Rebel XSi EF-S 18–55mm IS Kit (B) + EF-S 55–250mm f/4–5.6 IS - $200
EOS Rebel XSi EF-S 18–55mm IS Kit (S) + EF-S 55–250mm f/4–5.6 IS - $200
EOS Rebel XS EF-S 18–55mm IS Kit (B) + EF 75–300mm f/4.5–5.6 III - $100
EOS Rebel XS EF-S 18–55mm IS Kit (S) + EF 75–300mm f/4.5–5.6 III - $100


Lenses


EF 200mm f/2L IS USM - $500
EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM - $130
EF 70–200mm f/2.8L IS USM - $200
EF 100–400mm f/4.5–5.6L IS USM - $100
EF 16–35mm f/2.8L II USM - $100
EF 50mm f/1.2L USM - $100
EF 24–70mm f/2.8L USM - $80
EF 70–200mm f/4L IS USM - $75
EF-S 17–55mm f/2.8 IS USM - $70
EF-S 10–22mm f/3.5–4.5 USM - $50
EF 17–40mm f/4L USM - $50
EF 70–200mm f/4L USM - $40
EF-S 17–85mm f/4–5.6 IS USM - $50
EF 100mm f/2.8 MACRO USM - $35
EF-S 60mm f/2.8 MACRO USM - $30
EF 28–200mm f/3.5–5.6 USM - $30
EF 28–105mm f/3.5–4.5 II USM - $20
EF-S 18–55mm f/3.5–5.6 IS - $15


Flash Units


SPEEDLITE 580EX II - $50
SPEEDLITE 430EX II - $30
SPEEDLITE 220EX - $30
MACRO TWIN LITE MT-24EX - $70
MACRO RING LITE MR-14EX - $50

[Oren]

Edit: never mind

[Desslok]

Heh - typical! I go an buy a lens and not buy TWO days later, rumors of rebates start popping up. Fortunatly (or unfortunatly) the 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS EF USM doesnt appear to be on the list, so I'm not too badly screwed. Still, I'll have to come up with a couple extra bucks to get the ring flash I was waiting on now. . . .

[Erich Anderson]

EF 200mm f/2L IS USM - $500


That rebate sounds a bit high for what Cannon normally does for lenses...but hey, nice rebate if it's for real!

[Daniel Browning]

EF 200mm f/2L IS USM - $500


That rebate sounds a bit high for what Cannon normally does for lenses...but hey, nice rebate if it's for real!

It's a little less than 10% off the $5,300 lens, which seems about in line with their normal rebates to me.

[Stephen Probert]

I'd believe it, at least the dates, this is usually when the spring rebates pop up.

[40Doodle]

I just wish some of the online resellers would stop the practice of raising prices just ahead of the rebate such that the rebate is mute. I remember seeing that happen in previous Canon rebates and it appears still to be a popular notion. Kinda kills the whole rebate thing if the price coincidentally rises $99 just ahead of a coming Canon rebate for $100 off a lens.


Rick

[Daniel Browning]

I just wish some of the online resellers would stop the practice of raising prices just ahead of the rebate such that the rebate is mute.

Canon themselves, and not the resellers, are the reason for the price increase. Here are some quotes from the [url="http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/766115/0]Canon May Rebates FM thread[/url], with my emphasis added:


Henry from B&H:
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"]...price hikes at or near the time of a rebate program were caused by, as I said, Canon USA raising wholesale prices at a time when supply was low, obliging retailers to raise their retail prices in turn.


Helen Oster from Adorama:
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"]The feedback from our buyers is that currently many lenses are in short supply and are expected to remain so for some time. The price increases have nothing whatsoever to do with the rebates, but to reflect that on many lenses we are now having to pay a premium price.
...
Again, if Canon put up the price to us, we have to increase our prices to the customers.


Roger Cicala from Lensrentals.com:
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"]B&amp;H and Adorama (and others) didn't get where they are by arbitrarily screwing their customers. But they also have businesses to run, they aren't nonprofit corporations that exist to get us lenses at cost. I would guess a lot of their emphasis has shifted suddenly from "how low a price can we charge and remain profitable" to "how do we get enough lenses at any price". I'd guess making a few mistakes and judgmental errors in a wildly changing market is understandable, and not necessarily a plot. The manufacturers changed the market, not the retailers.


Incidentally, all three are also users on this forum and I appreciate their presence.

[40Doodle]

I hear ya Dan, but no matter who is doing what, it's coincidentally obvious to many Canon customers and simply "smells fishy". For people that follow the pricing of lenses they would like to own, the customer is not being "stimulated" into buying a lens via rebate if the price conveniently happens to rise just ahead of the rebate. The rebate is muted, and thus provides no real incentive to buy new other than fear of even higher prices. In today's economy, that simply means customers not really being incented to purchase.


Rick

[Keith B]

Thing that twisted me is, I was waiting to buy the 16-35 2.8 and Adorama raised the price $100 so I bought it from B&amp;H thinking they would raise there prices too which would negate the $100 rebate anyway. A few days later Adorama lowered the price back down and now I have a lens I paid $100 more for than I needed to. I know it's my fault for trying to predict the future but...


Anyone ever tried to get B&amp;H or others to hook you up with the rebate on something bought a week or so be fore the rebate were announced?


I imagine I'm out of luck but I'll probably try.