Comments on: Canon Canada & The 5D Mark II [CR5]

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:59:13 +0000

I thought most stores were stationary?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:11:29 +0000

Blacks only has 15 orders nationwide on the camera because they are a stationary store. Most professionals order their professional cameras from a professional camera store like Vistek or Henry’s, who both have many hundreds of orders.

By: [exclusivit

[exclusivit — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:51:18 +0000

[...] par Bob-74 Que ce passe t’il au Canada en ce moment ? Canon Rumors

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:45:57 +0000

Great,

maybe I’ll have one after all

By: [exclusivit

[exclusivit — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:58:07 +0000

[...] par Bob-74 Que ce passe t’il au Canada en ce moment ? Canon Rumors

By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:21:58 +0000

Hey Keener,

This also echos the feedback i’ve gotten from retailler here in Quebec. When asking around, I was told they expected unit to sit on the shelves as they did not sell all their allotment in pre-orders. One store also mentionned some people cancelled their pre-orders before and after the price went up. As far as dates, I was told in the next week but that Canon was not very reliable with dates…

By: Keener

Keener — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:31:16 +0000

The continuing saga of pre-orders..

Okay, so I had a chance to hit up a couple of Blacks Photography stores in Calgary over the weekend. I asked them about how the pre-orders worked and both of them told me the same thing.

“To pre-order you have to give us the full price of the camera. You are effectively buying the camera from the warehouse, right then and there (at whatever price it is listed at), and are just waiting for it to be delivered to you. This means we can not charge you more later.”

in one store they looked up the camera in their system and apparently, Blacks Photography (Canada wide) has 25 on order, and only 15 people so far have taken advantage of pre-orders. I thought that was an insanely low number, but then I rationalized it. Not a heck of a lot of people are going to drop that kind of money on something they’re unsure about. That is, is it any good? when is it coming? etc.. In most cases, a pre-order is just a name on a list, and most sane people would rather just put their name on a list, or put a small deposit, rather than paying for the whole thing outright.

I guess the ironic thing is, the somewhat insane act of paying that kind of money for something that has a huge question mark over it might actually pay off this time around, as (it seems) Canon is only shipping to people who have pre-orders with money already attached to it.

Just thought I’d share my story.

P.S. I would like to thank Canon Rumors for my (hopefully) cheap 5D MarkII! Reading this forum tipped me to the price increase, and prompted me to order with blacks because they still had the old price listed when everyone else had already jacked up their prices. Blacks raised their prices the very next day. Of course, I was taking a gamble and actually thinking that blacks would probably end up charging me more in the end, but hopefully the gamble pays off.

By: hex

hex — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:48:14 +0000

the reports state that retail sales have been the lowest so far in october. with recession showing no sign of letting up either canon is just trying to squeeze the most out of its customers or plainly shooting themselves in the foot.
if it really is the case and they don’t send cameras to stores unless people pre-order, i’m definitely switching to nikon, already got plenty of people interested in my canon equipment.

By: Fred C.

Fred C. — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:30:04 +0000

I haven’t had the camera all that long, so far it’s incredible, IQ is beyond my expectations. ISO performance as expected, you will be amazed.

My launch date is when I actually have stocked cameras to sell. Who knows when that may be?

By: shuelin

shuelin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:08:32 +0000

fred along with your impressions when is your launch date