Comments on: Yep, Nikon prices did go up in the UK today. Is Norway next?

By: Oddgeir

Oddgeir — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:37:03 +0000

and Norwegian Kroner
has been weaked too.

By: lorenzo

lorenzo — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:44:49 +0000

hi!
…maybe nikon growed the price in england up because the pound went down on euro and they want behind that all european people buy now there more expensiver than in the other country?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:50:35 +0000

Funnily enough, not all Japanese goodies are going up in price – I’ve just ordered a Sigma 500mm/f4.5 that’s about £200 less than they were before Christmas. (Yes, I know we’re NIKON rumours. Me having the price of a Nikon 500mm/f4 will only ever be a rumour, though.)

By: Trevor Nelmes

Trevor Nelmes — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:11:08 +0000

The LIST Price came down, but discounts and incentives may (probably have) changed too, meaning the dealer may have less money with which to cut prices from list, hence the street price can go up.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:48:25 +0000

Calumet were selling D700 plus 14-24 or 24-70 for around £2,500 last week. Now £2,859 and £2,795 respectively. £300 is quite a jump!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:26:43 +0000

The reason is the volatile currency exchange. The value of the yen is rapidly increasing against other currencies such as the euro and pound.

By: Nikkorian

Nikkorian — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:47:00 +0000

An ebay dealer and apparently owner of a store in Germany calls himself “Nikon system partner” and mentions a price increase on Feb 1st in the subtitle of the ebay offer: http://tinyurl.com/7ddze7 There’s an email address in the lower part of the page in case somebody wants to contact them.

By: David H

David H — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:17:09 +0000

Hmm, I considered buying a D700 and second SB900 before the price rise but as I write they are the same price on camerapricebuster.co.uk – maybe the prices will take a while to filter through with some shops.

By: Oddgeir

Oddgeir — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:11:09 +0000

because the economics is going bad.
watch the news and understand.

By: Raymond Ohsnap

Raymond Ohsnap — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:52:47 +0000

Just got of the phone with a retailer here. He said that the prices would to increase in the 1st quarter, by a lot… Crap. They hadn’t gotten the exact prices yet, but he said it would be devestating to the sales of Nikon cameras for them.

By: Raymond Ohsnap

Raymond Ohsnap — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:42:44 +0000

Nothing yet in Norway. btw, here’s an excelent tool for seeing changes of price.
(1$ = 7.2793Norwegian Kroner)
D300
http://prisguide.hardware.no/product.php?productId=79316&view=prices
D3
http://prisguide.hardware.no/product.php?productId=79315&view=prices

By: sperera

sperera — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:27:25 +0000

can anyone explain why they’re going up instead of dwon to try and get people to buy cameras…..bloody stupid if you ask me….

By: QueSera

QueSera — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:23:54 +0000

D300 down in price in UK! Not at Park Cameras.
Pre increase prices:
£920 body only
£1325 with 18-200VR lens.
Now (with 15% VAT):
£1000 body only (8.7% increase)
£1435 with 18-200VR (8.3% increase)

By: even the d3x ha!

even the d3x ha! — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:06:21 +0000

even the d3X went up in price. ha. both hitler and ken rockwell may have something to say about that

By: Ho-Wai

Ho-Wai — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:17:16 +0000

Shame!
Likely I left London 8 months ago. So far no news of Hong Kong prices going up! Any one know?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:10:56 +0000

i want a new nikon s10

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:02:38 +0000

that’s after it went down again this month from IDR 17.5mil to 17.1mil.

and for the lens:

16-85 VR, was IDR 5.600.000, now 7.100.000. that’s 20%

point being: indonesia’s prices has already increased long before the worldwide increase.., hopefully the price hike is the same thing(from nikon jpn) or else it’s gonna be raised again soon..

By: Hendrik

Hendrik — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:01:34 +0000

The price increase in Indonesia is about 15%.
D300 from IDR. 14.950.000,- up to IDR.17.100.000,-

By: adrian

adrian — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:53:42 +0000

i ordered a d700 + 105mm lens from calumet last week for £1999, the price on their website is now £2,288.99…..
that’s about 15% increase!

im glad i got it last week!!

By: fotomik

fotomik — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:48:42 +0000

That’s odd, Canon raised their prices 2-15% on the 1st January in Finland. The oddest thing was that nearly everything was raised, EXCEPT cameras. P&S and DLSR are the same as ever, just the lenses and the flashes and other accessories got hiked…

Nikon of Finland will surely do the same, it’s just a matter of time.