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http://www.nikonusa.com/fileuploads/pdf ... ebates.pdf

The price is starting to drop!

No. No more posts like this. No.

That why I wait for maxwell to give me some clues about their rebates this year, prior to post something on Bargains

I only want to hear about the prices on things I haven't got dropping!!!

Like the 70-200VR

MHD wrote:I only want to hear about the prices on things I haven't got dropping!!!

Like the 70-200VR

Fortunately, you'll, and it happens in the US>
Have you checked your PO Box yet?

Louise will check it at lunch

Greg, they haven't got the link up yet but I have heard Maxwell's are rebating $500 on the kit. I posted that link just for you Greg














(joking)

Thanks Glen


Glad you were joking.

its a damn insult to those of us who purchased it earlier, and kills our resale value ... natural depreciation sure, but a big fat rebate, grrr.

happened to me with my 300D too, missed out by ONE day.

To deal with this, just think of all the terrific photos you've caught before the price drop...

Would you have caught them before you got your D70? I know I wouldn't have. (If my answer was yes however, I would start balling my eyes out and bleeding out of my nipples.)

darb wrote:its a damn insult to those of us who purchased it earlier, and kills our resale value ... natural depreciation sure, but a big fat rebate, grrr.

I'm afraid it's a part of life in the electronics fast lane these days.

I paid almost 2K for my 950 about 5 years ago, and that was a good price in those days. It's still a good serviceable camera, but what am I bid for it?

Likewise my 5700.

You pays your money and you take your choices in this case.

The cost, effectively, becomes ammortised as the cost of using the system - whatever it might be - in that period.

Yes it's a high price to pay, but that's a choice that make when you make the purchase, not three (or six) months down the track. The only unknown factor when you make that choice is the extent of the "loss" that you're about to suffer.

The one good thing about DSLR however is that (from my observations) lenses do not depreciate as quickly... so some of your investment is good for a while

I think that digital cameras are worse than cars for instantaneous depreciation.

I bought a G3 in Feb 2003, a couple of months ago you could buy a G6 for between half and two thirds of the price. Doh.

Similar problems with computer gear. Or DVD players (don't get me started)

I avoid looking at prices like the plague for as long as possible after a purchase like the d70 - there is no happiness to be had there. None at all. Zilch.

It is just the way the mop flops.

(And dooda, "bleeding out of my nipples", nice work, I might use that one)

so what pice are we looking at for the current $2,199 kit over here?

For the kit, you shouldn't be paying more than PP2000. And shouldn't have been since April.

Let's wait and see how benevolent Maxwells will be. Translation: don't hold your breath waiting for huge reductions.

My guess is around PP150 reduction in the D70 and D100, with a round of rebates on the D70 starting in March or April 05.

Which is when we'll see the D100's replacement come in at around 2800.

For the rebate as last year at this time, the rebate for D100 is AU$200.00
and if there's I don't think anything will exceed over $200.00 for the d70 kit. Sometimes it applied to the US market only not Australia same as lenses.

Nikon USA has many rebates in lenses during the year but did not see any lolly pop for Australia, so no sweet here btw.

The target price for me to get the D70 kit with 1Gb CF card for our members is still stay at the level of $2050.00 atm, and it's my real cost.

I've just got an order today from one of our Govt. customers for 15 kits and Maxwell did not give me any cents less, so please don't hold your breath about the generosity from Maxwell. I'm on the phone with them nearly all this morning, tried to get some blood on the stone

they must deal with some big orders if 15 is inconsequential
A $30K transaction is a fairly large transaction!

MHD wrote:they must deal with some big orders if 15 is inconsequential
A $30K transaction is a fairly large transaction!

MHD,
November is just started!
October I sold more than 55 kits in a months/ 99% gone to the Local and Federal Govt. Dept.

But it's painful once you deal with Govt. or Corporate. 90 days account is not unusual

You wanted a rebate on what you don't have. Thid is US $ but.

http://www.nikonusa.com/fileuploads/pdf ... ebates.pdf

goodrich62 wrote:You wanted a rebate on what you don't have. Thid is US $ but.

http://www.nikonusa.com/fileuploads/pdf ... ebates.pdf

goodrich62 hi,
I should move back to SoCAL should I?
Without a rebate, there's more good price than we have to pay here, that why mostly my disposable income gone back to the States and Far East.

From the NikonUSA PDF - the D70 rebate isn't the biggest thing, look at the SB800. $25 rebate for the fall (still current) and another $25 on top for this xmas holidays. That's like nearly a 20% saving!! I didn't think Nikon needed such incentives for people to buy - nearly everywhere online you read of retailers struggling to replenish stocks.

I agree with Gary earlier in this post.

If you buy a camera as a hobby item then any price reduction, especially days after purchasing, really hits hard.

When I purchased my D1 in late 99 for $12,000 it kind of worried me - actually it was nearly $18,000 as I bought a flash and the 2.8 PC Nikkor plus other bits and pieces.

Being a camera for work I was happy at the end of one year in making over $75,000 from the camera alone - so when the price started to slide it really did not worry me.

But don’t get me started on TVs, computers, hard drives, DVD recorders et al.

Cheers

Chris

cars, PC's, expensive cameras.

ahh 3 things I like quite a bit, 3 of the fastest depreciating liabilities you can own. Not that I'd compromise on the 3rd one

darb wrote:cars, PC's, expensive cameras.

Ahhh but with cars, if you choose wisely you can in fact see an increase in the value of the asset.

Likewise too with a couple of cameras, but that's very much in the minority. Early Leicas perhaps, and not much else.

not in the mainstream though

(even then im not sure an appreciating vintage would appreciate faster than CPI, and outweigh its rego, insurance, running costs? ... you could probably break even though.)

Would it be considered a capital gain? im sure the taxman would laugh if he saw CGT implications on a car when he's used to seeing rebates instead

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