Is the 7D MK II Really Selling Well?

[Big_Ant_TV_Media]

Currently number one on Amazon best sellers list. number eight with kit lens. People dispute the Amazon list but never cite any better list or have any valid reason for challenging it. So yes, it is selling very well now. The fact that dealers have it in stock simply means canon accurately projected demand and they have the infrastructure in place to meet the demand, unlike smaller companies like Tamron.

amazon is sold out so its goin like hot cakes

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

My point is that the 7D was difficult to find in stock for months. Same with the 5D MK III. The 7D can be picked up in most cities, and its just a few days after it was released.

This is why I question how well they are actually selling.

Yeah...it could certainly be that its not selling well. Could also be that Canon decided to delay release so they had plenty of stock. People going to buy a camera and finding it out of stock can be lost sales.

That's a strong possibility. You can not just turn a factory on and off, in fact, I've previously speculated that Canon has been building up inventory for several months.

Manufacturing planners start about 2 years in advance assuming sales levels and then placing orders for tooling and components to support a certain number of units a month. JIT is a way of life for Japanese manufacturers, subcontractors deliver X parts a day, week, or month and plan their production accordingly. If the sales climate looked better two years ago, then production might be higher than demand. Canon seems pretty good at forecasting sales, but in todays business climate, its really difficult to be accurate.

It costs less for a company to drop prices when inventory is too high as opposed to slowing production by more than a few percent. In Japan, you just don't layoff a very valuable and skilled workforce because there is surplus inventory. Production increases and decreases take time.

What we don't know, is if initial production was planned at a unusually high rate , and now some production is shifting to start producing the next new DSLR. That's another speculation.

 

[nonac]

I'll bet it's selling better than you think. I've been hesitant, but I went ahead and pulled the trigger today and ordered one. I had to look around a bit to find one in stock (body only). I'll have it Thursday afternoon and try it out at a High School football playoff game on Friday night.

 

[tcmatthews]

I am sure the 7d II is selling fine. The last several Canon and Nikon camera releases have had general availability within a week in Houston. I went to my local Best Buy to check out a Sony Nex (because the EOS M was such a disappointment) and found a Nikon D600 three days after it was announced.

This is more a testament to their supply change. Canon will make sure there is plenty of Cameras available for the Christmas season in the US. This is one reason that I don't generally pre-order Canon Cameras. The 5D III was not released in the fall so there was no seasonal ramp up in shipments to go along with its release.

Now Sony, Olympus, Panasonic, etc. you might not get one for 6 months if you do not pre-order.

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Currently number one on Amazon best sellers list. number eight with kit lens. People dispute the Amazon list but never cite any better list or have any valid reason for challenging it. So yes, it is selling very well now. The fact that dealers have it in stock simply means canon accurately projected demand and they have the infrastructure in place to meet the demand, unlike smaller companies like Tamron.

amazon is sold out so its goin like hot cakes

Really?

When I checked just now, Amazon had body only or kits in stock, but only two bodies left, so they will sell soon. However, there are other dealers selling on Amazon, who have them in stock

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00NEWZDRG/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1415160607&sr=8-1&keywords=7d+mark+ii&condition=new

http://www.amazon.com/Canon-Mark-Digital-Camera-18-135mm/dp/B00NEWZGCS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1415160607&sr=8-2&keywords=7d+mark+ii

 

[Dylan777]

I happened to check CPW today, and noticed that both body only 7D's as well as Kits are commonly on stock.

Sure, the big stores sell out, but only a few days after the cameras have started shipping, there appears to be no problem getting one from a Authorized Dealer without paying a inflated price.

Some have bought them on speculation, and are going to find there is no profit in selling them, unless, of course, they manage to convince someone that they are not available.

There is nothing wrong with the camera, but money is tight, and the camera is, imho, over priced. I expect that they will be a bit harder to find after Black Friday, but gray market camera will be flooding ebay by then.

Camera Canada sells them for $1698 USD right now, and two US Authorized dealers have them on stock.

http://www.canonpricewatch.com/product/05537/Canon-EOS-7D-Mark-II-price.html

Everyone has kits, and, again, you can save over $100 from Camera Canada

http://www.canonpricewatch.com/product/05571/Canon-EOS-7D-Mark-II-with-18-135mm-Kit-price.html

My local camera store filled their pre-orders(just over 30 bodies). They still have 6 bodies remain when I was there this afternoon.

I got to hold one, but they didn't allow me pressing the shutter :-[

It feels solid.

 

[sanj]

I have no way of knowing but there are lots of rebates and free bees being offered so I doubt about it selling that well.

 

[Sportsgal501]

I have no way of knowing but there are lots of rebates and free bees being offered so I doubt about it selling that well.

I'm seeing a lot of that also, they're not sold out.
Getting just the body might be a task but stores seem plentiful with the kit version.