Comments on: Nikon prices going up (down under)

By: JC

JC — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:51:22 +0000

Prices for Nikon appear to be rising in the UK at this moment. The D90 appears to be gaining £80 or so in street pricing. I was looking at this camera and have not bought yet. My purchase is a purely discretionary spend and would be my first DSLR. I would buy the D90 if it was closer to £600, but I am not desperate and will wait or probably not buy one at all. Dangerous move by a company to raise prices especially in the UK, where everything is collapsing like a house of cards.

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:09:25 +0000

It makes perfect sense to me. I wasn’t in a position to buy a dSLR until mid-2009 anyway and now that Nikon have made their expensive cameras even more expensive (Forgive the credit crash) Canon are looking better (On price point and lens choice only) even after their price rise in December 2008. I could of course just wait until a D700x (Or whatever it’ll be) is released supposedly in 2009 and just continue using my compact P&S for now.

IMO you cannot compare a 5D2 with a D700, you could compare a 5D with a D700, and the price point for a 5D over a D700 is very good.

It’s all nonsense to me right now as I don’t have enough for either system before the rise. Bugger!!!

By: Rusty

Rusty — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:05:23 +0000

That post makes no sense, the Nikon D700 will remain at its current price till March 31st basically.

I bought mine for 3395 from ECS in Drummoyne and they told me they were keeping the price steady thanks to Nikon.

How is going to Canon going to be cheaper? Canon has already raised prices for the 5D2 as a mate who bought the 24-105 kit for 5400AUS$ would now be slugged closer to 6100.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:22:04 +0000

I was considering buying a D700, but I think I will he dover to Canon. Nikon, already very expensive, you’ve just lost another customer.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:14:01 +0000

I had the same thought, if that is their strategy it may prove successful. I know that it has got me thinking about grabbing some lenses now that I may have otherwise waited for.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:28:58 +0000

This is exactly what happened according to my source… this leak could be on purpose – it will boost the sells in the next few weeks, which are the worst from retail perspective.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:21:13 +0000

well, hurry up – you still have time…

By: GT

GT — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:23:17 +0000

NIKONS “BIG” EVENT – THE PRICE RISE!!!

NIKON AUSTRALIA go F* yourselves.

Not happy – come DEC was thinking 200-400 and D700 to add to my two D300…. not any more!!!!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:47:47 +0000

I would just like to add that I got a Nikon last year that had a rebate. This price list email was sent to the address I supplied when getting the cash back.

I wonder how many other “non-authorised reseller” people got this email by mistake? Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice to go into any buying situation with as much info as possible, but if this was sent to their entire customer database someone’s head will roll!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:51:09 +0000

Actually at the moment they are more in line with grey market items (ebay and grey market importers).. After this price increase comes through it will be once again worthwhile to purchase from grey markets (ebay dealers)…

By: Antonio

Antonio — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:15:14 +0000

That’s not quite true. Prices for products in OZ have been falling, though I’m sure the manufacturers have kept some of the profits when the dollar was strong.

10-20% is pretty good in the current scheme of things with the $AU. In fact, authorized stores will probably be able to better compete with the grey market sellers since the grey importers prices will be going up 30-40%.

By: finn

finn — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:07:18 +0000

it might be a significant change, the question is if it even enough, …

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GBPJPY=X&t=5y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

By: NikonGod

NikonGod — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:49:51 +0000

I agree with Ralf here. It is hilarious how Australian companies pull out the ‘bad exchange rate’ card as an excuse to raise prices of goods, but when the exchange rate was good (back in July), there was no decrease in prices. What a joke!

By: James

James — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:40:42 +0000

Although you say that it does not say confidential, in the email that I received the attachment had footers on every page clearly stating that it was confidential.

By: Ralf

Ralf — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:06:00 +0000

The price increase may be due to the Oz $ but there is still a strange discrepancy between prices in difference markets. The differences in Oz have always been explained by possible exchange rate fluctuations and stable price maintenance. This justification for Nikon prices not falling massively in Oz during the strong currency seems to be forgotten when the currency falls. I believe they just charge what the market will put up with using economics as an excuse.

Interesting price list though – $45 for that piece of crap they call a strap for the D700 – that has to be a cruel joke.

The D3x now $14,000 over here – wonder how many of those they’ll sell – I hope none.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:25:40 +0000

This info was sent out to dealers and with this Nikon understands that it will be in the public domain, otherwise I would say “confidential” or “this email is intended to be viewed only by the recipients”, etc… If Nikon wanted to keep this secret, they would not have sent this email – trust me they know how to keep a secret

By: PJS

PJS — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:56:42 +0000

they also list the D200 body – which I have been told is NLA.

By: Trevor Nelmes

Trevor Nelmes — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:12:37 +0000

Whoops, that last one went anonymous, but it was me.

Dale Photographic (Leeds) have a sale on the D3x body for just £4995 including sales tax. That is $7220. Take off the tax and that is just $6279!

Dale are a Nikon UK Professional Dealer, BTW. Other dealers have heavier discounts than Dale on most Nikon kit.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:01:15 +0000

Well, with the economy in the UK being so fragile, whatever Nikon UK do with their retail prices, if the street price moves up they may see volumes drop off the edge of the cliff.

With the financial press hinting that Jessops (the main UK High Street and Internet camera retailer) is about to fold, any price increases from either Canon or Nikon are likely to spell disaster for many smaller camera shops.

Assuming that Canon and Nikon don’t act in unison, if Nikon raise prices, Canon may well just rub their hands and take the sales.

I do appreciate that Nikon’s UK street prices are probably amongst the lowest in the world right now (for example one dealer is selling the D3x for under $6700 plus sales tax, with the retail price at under $6900 plus tax), but Canon kit is quite cheap too.

By: LSE

LSE — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:27:33 +0000

why? It is not the first consumer product that you can find the so called invoice price. What evidence do you have that it will affect the company in any way?

The retailers are the ones who eventually choose the final price and margins, even if you do know how much they payed for.

In the end what’s going to hurt nikon is raising prices in a down economy. We’ll see how their marketshare drops in 2009.