Not aggressive enough
I've received some information about what Canon's favourite competitors are doing to stimulate sales this Christmas season. Both Panasonic and Nikon are offering very substantial dollar spiffs on cameras sold. This is taking place in both Canada and the USA. For anyone in retail, this plays a BIG role in what cameras they pull of the shelf first.
A Wolf employee told me his co-workers are definitely getting geared up to sell Nikon products. If that can pay for the Christmas gifts, why wouldn't they?
Canon's approach? A rewards program. Sell $25K of stuff and get a free SD1100. A slight exageration, but not by much.
5D Preorder Legal Issues
I spoke to a lawyer friend about the whole issue of pre-orders and whether retailers are entering into a binding agreement about price. His answer after a subtle laugh; “No”. In Canada at least, pre-orders are technically not legal, so there is no binding agreement.
If anyone wants to dispute this, I'm all ears. You lawyers love to stir it up!
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In the free market and with the US economy going down… hopefully retailers who took pre-orders will try to gain brownie points (and/or customer loyalty) by honoring the original price.
It’s things like this that keep me loyal to Newegg, although with a budget crunch I occasionally order cheaper from elsewhere.
^^^ I don’t think the pricing in the U.S is the problem. It’s Canon Canada the one raising prices.
When I worked retail, selling cameras at a large, Maryland-based U.S.-based camera chain, I can tell you that Canon USA never put squat in the pot in terms of sales incentives “SI”s we called ’em. Fuji, on the other hand, well you could do quite well for yourself in a day if you sold a few of the Fuji package deals. This was over 14 years ago, mind you, but….
I keep seeing complaints about how Canon took 3 years to update the 5D. I can’t imagine that people who bought the 5D 3 years ago were all that disappointed to know their camera didn’t depreciate as much as the D100/D200.
Considering it still does its job as a 12MP FF camera…
Would at least be nice if Vistek would bother to return my calls,messages and e-mails about this…… I used to have them pegged as a quality establishment but that’s a rapidly changing opinion.