Canon 5D Mark III - Price Drop Details

[weekendshooter]

It's possible that Canon stopped enforcing the MAP after the recent eBay deals. That seems pretty unprecedented for a high-end camera so soon after launch.

Canon has MAP on the MKIII, right? Therefore this must be at least approved by Canon. All previous deals to be had were forced to go through channels outside of the MAP agreement.

-Brian

 

[nitelife2]

Is the price drop really from Canon, or is it from retailers? I would be really curious to know whether Canon themselves is actually getting less per unit with recent drops to $3100 and $2900 and such, or whether it is simply that the initial 5D III Feaver has warn off? That all the pre-orders and early buyers who were anticipating the 5D III for years and were going to get one regardless are now done, and now retailers are trying to attract the more careful, price-wary buyers? Canon doesn't get $3500 a pop for each 5D III sold...they get something in the mid $2000 range. It is the retailers who are trying to build sales...and I assume that for all the prices down to the low of around $2700 I saw recently, they are still making a profit...as is Canon.

I got my 5dIII for 2500EUR from a small shop. If you substract the sales tax of 19% you are at 2025EUR. The shop wants to earn something as well as the distributor. So my guess is that canon is getting something in the mid 1000EUR/$ (because EUR=$ for some unknown reason) range.