Comments on: Nikon rebates are now online

By: nikon

nikon — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:25:00 +0000

I am waiting for amazon to offer the D5000 + 24-70mm lens combo discount.

By: NikonShooter4Fun

NikonShooter4Fun — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:09:22 +0000

Just priced the following combination online, Here goes, It was advertised that if you bought a D3x with a 70-200mm VRII telephoto you would save 400 dollars or get a instant Rebate “RIGHT”?

Amazon.com Pricing for above $ 7449.88 (Price as of 3/3/2010)

B&H Photo Pricing for above $7199.90 (Price after rebate)
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Savings $ 249.98 Where is the $400.00 savings??

What happened to the 400.00 savings or Rebate, are they manipulating the pricing, and to top it off, if you wanted to buy a D3s, no one has any in stock to sell you. SO big Deal Nikon, these Rebates are very confusing, and most of all MISLEADING in my opinion. Don’t you have MAP pricing, everyone pays the same and is supposed to sell it for the same price? I personally will set this one out, due to having to spend 5199.00 on a camera body (FX) to get Video? Shame on you Nikon for letting Canon spank you REAR END and you will never catch up (SAD). Little ole companies can pump out 14MP camera’s with HD Video for less than 350.00 but Nikon hasn’t figured it out yet? Unbelievable!!!!

Someone will come to market with a “Fresher Alternative” (Probably Canon) but I hope it is Nikon first. Nikon is surely dragging their feet, Big time in my opinion. I personally think it is the economy, Just talked to a Honda Motorcycle salesmen, Honda isn’t even making a 2011 Goldwing, he said they had enough 2010 models that they can’t sell due to the poor economy. I have never heard of this, but that is what he advised me. If Nikon is hurting financially, it isn’t the economy, it is their lack of innovation, they have done nothing in my opinion to stimulate the market or potential buyers. They are simply OUT DONE…

By: EJR

EJR — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:42:58 +0000

I’d like to see Amazon give the discount on the 70 – 200 and the 18 – 200. If they did, I would be buying.

By: MikeC

MikeC — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:14:16 +0000

Also on Amazon, if you get a D5000, you also have the option to get $100 off the 55-200 VR lens. This is in addition to the $200 off the 70-300 lens as Skin Like Winter reported.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:56:23 +0000

I found out from a retail/mail-order store that the Nikon rebate to vendors is applicable to the Nikon-determined Minimum Advertised Price, which means if the item is already discounted below that then the effective rebate will be less. Makes me long for the clarity of good old-fashioned mail-in rebates.

By: Skin Like Winter

Skin Like Winter — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:34:48 +0000

I noticed this morning that Amazon is offereing $200 off the 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G lens when purchased with a qualifying Nikon DSLR.

If you are viewing a Nikon DSLR you should see a “Special Offers Available” link. Click on the link and you’ll see the following. “Save $200.00 on Nikon 70-300mm Lens when you purchase 1 or more Qualifying Nikon DSLR offered by Amazon.com. Enter code 7O3OOMAR at checkout.”

I tried the D90, D300s and D700 and all had the 70-300mm lens deal.

By: fluteboi

fluteboi — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:28:29 +0000

wow…in another word…they are keeping $70 of the rebate

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:22:15 +0000

no, we can still have fun, but when I have 10 identical comments “it has begun” it is a little but too much

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:13:23 +0000

you have to add to the cart to see the final price

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:39:44 +0000

By: EJR

EJR — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:59:10 +0000

These prices are a BIG disappointment! I spoke to a Nikon employee and to get a better understanding of how these discounts work. They are instant discounts to the dealer and the dealer may choose to pass along as much or as little of the discount as they want. Not much of the discount is being passed on. Some prices before the discounts were available:
D300s: $1500
18 – 200mm: $765
70 – 200mm: $2250
Total: $4515
After $650 in Discounts, should be: $3865
Best Price I can find: $4300
What happened to the discount??? The store is keeping it!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:07:19 +0000

Nice talk. Sorry, I’ am Nikon-user since 1992 (started with two F4-bodies) but I’ m still not a Nikon-FANatic, like you very much seem to be. I’ m a photographer and use different systems for their different advantages and purposes (including HB). I really don’t want to get into this annoying and completely pointless Canon-Nikon-Fanatic-talk. How come, that you start this anyway. Did I mention Canon at all ? ? ? Nope ! ! ! As a D300-owner I was just expecting a bit more from a next camera, than the D300s delivers. Since you bring it up, I might as well reply: Take a deeper look into the history of releases and you’ll very often find, that Canon was ahead in the point of meeting pro-needs.
Take their Shift-Lenses as an example. Who was first and who has an amazing 17mm released. Must be Nikon according to you. It’s stupid talk like this and it’s people like you, that sometimes make me wanna switch. The only
reason I probably never (or at least no time near) will actually do it is, that I simply don’t like the Canon-design at all (besides: the 9 Nikkors and 3 bodies I have and the loss of money selling them are another good reason).

By: Guy

Guy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:07:10 +0000

B&H Photo is being sneaky and dishonest. The rebates are not coming up to the full amount. If you add the individual items into the cart and subtract the the rebate you will find 50 to 100 dollars is missing. They also just raised the price of the D90 from 739 to 779. I thought these guy’s were on the up and up but they are showing me a side I did not think I would see from them.

By: Lars

Lars — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:06:33 +0000

Adorama has their D3S + 24-70mm lens priced correctly at $6639. Plus free shipping. A total savings of $88.25 with Adorama. I’m glad the sales rep at B&H told me to shop around and they can change the prices at anytime.

By: chuck

chuck — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:06:26 +0000

No free lunch, trick u into buying what you don’t need than in 3 months spring a new camera and more lenses on you to make you buy more. ha ha. Nikon wins and wins again!

By: N Dawgg

N Dawgg — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:54:53 +0000

Just checked the price for a Nikon D90 + 18-200 DX VRII at B&H and it had jumped $70 in the past 3-4 hours (from $1242 to $1312).

By: Lars

Lars — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:48:00 +0000

I think part of the $300 rebate that B&H has for the 24-70mm is paid partly by B&H and partly by Nikon. B&H then partly recoups this loss by increasing the cost of the lens by $45. They dishonestly make you think you are getting a $300 savings, when actually it is only $255.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:20:14 +0000

I exchanged email with the B&H rep again today and she confirmed the following:

You can combine rebates for the different lenses. If you want two of the same lens then you only get one rebate. Example: A D700 plus the 24-70mm and the 70-200mm lenses would get you $700 in rebates. If you wanted two 24-70mm lenses, you’d only get a $300 rebate.

I asked the rep if I could post their contact info and they requested that I don’t. But I think that’s ok, the rep is from marketing not sales and with every question I asked the rep conferred with their manager before giving me an answer. They told me that if I have any problems with dealing with the phone order department to ask to speak with the SLR department. The rep told me these rebates are the Buzz right now and that everyone should be up to speed on it.

Also, as I mentioned yesterday, the rep from Adorama told me the same thing. The Adorama rep is a senior, experienced person from the company as well as an accomplished Nikon photographer. So, I feel comfortable that this info is accurate.

I hope everyone gets what they want!! Cheers!

By: GlobalGuy

GlobalGuy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:44:24 +0000

D300s is a disappointment?? You’re nuts, that is a great camera for DX! It is loaded with features and a D40, D60, D70, D80, D90 owner would be well suited to upgrade. It lacks in megapixels and that’s it. It is a very excellent camera.

The D3x is absolutely amazing and of medium format caliber.

The D3s is an ISO click better in low-light than the Canon’s most recent camera and it is two clicks better than the infamous D700/D3. According to professional reviews, it can take pictures that are usable in the visible light spectrum where previously only infrared imaging was able to be used.

The D5000 is somewhat disappointing for pro-hobbiests, but the price was kept to “approachable” on purpose as the step up from entry-level. And it is still very feature rich for its price.

I don’t know what you are thinking when you are saying that Nikon’s recent offerings are poor. They are incredible feats of engineering and the only issue is the 12mp barrier that annoys some people and the 920p barrier which annoys others. But considering that film wasn’t even possible on DSLR’s before NIKON introduced it (Canon soon following), you need to cut Nikon some slack. And if Nikon wants to take 1 generation to focus on getting rid of noise, that is a serious consideration and respectable priority.

Personally, I would not have wanted Nikon to have 30mp bodies and the noise of the previous generation of bodies. And I understand that Nikon innovated video on DSLR’s — but they are not a camcorder company. Canon has always been a camcorder company with an entire division devoted to camcorders.

Let’s keep things in perspective. Quite frankly, I believe that Nikon is the company which keeps innovating and its quite clear that Canon’s imaging division is just following this generation.

By: David

David — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:42:35 +0000

Careful – some of the ktis with rebate are actually more expensive than buying each item separately. This is true with some of the d700 kits. The price of the d700 has dropped, but I think they jack it back up to full retail when the put it in the kit.