Best site for hot camera deals?

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Many of the hot computer deals sites have digital cameras, but zero
insight on if whats cheap is any good. Poking around on a few camera
review sites I ran into way too many cameras that don't exist anymore,
or just one store closing all of them out. Could be good, could be not.
So far whats looked pretty good, but not hooked me, are;

Canon D535 and D575
Nikon Coolpix 3100
Fujifilm A310

Refurbs around $110, with new about another $40, my price is flexible,
and I am happy to pay more to get a real hot deal if I find it. Small,
quality, easy to use, thats me.

BTW ebay is just sick these days, I am sure people make a fine living
buying at J&R, Frys, etc. and selling on ebay.

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When you troll along the bottom you pick up alot of garbage.
If you don't mind chancing refurbs the best place to buy them is directly
from the manufacturer as they will back up the item with their warranty. I
have purchased higher end items from Nikon and Epson as refurbs. I had one
return to Nikon which was immediately replaced with a unit that has worked
perfectly ever since.

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On 6 Jul 2005 10:29:52 -0700, grruffbowwow@yahoo.com wrote:
Do pay
>attention to the reviews of the sellers; actually read a few and decide
>whether you want to do business with them before you click on to their
>site.
Especially as many of the bad reviews are written by
the competition, and many of the good reviews are
written by the vendors themselves.

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UGH, for those who hate ebay, this is so much worse. I am surfing all
over the web, looking for reviews, good prices etc., and this seems
like a GREAT time to be buying in the range I am looking at, beginner 3
MP, 3x Optical, good quality, cheap cameras. My list has grown a touch;

Canon D535 and D575
Nikon Coolpix 3100
Fujifilm A310 and A330
Olympus A510 and Stylus 300.

All seem pretty good choices, a couple are fairly new, and a couple
almost 2 years old, a mix of reasons they have reached my price range.
A final review, and some deals expiring, and I may order something
tonight. That gets me to the UGH.

wawadigital.com from a link on buyersedge.com.

Formerly starlightcamera.com, wawadigital.com appears the worse sort of
place one could imagine. I found warnings about them posted on half a
dozen different sites, prices completely out of line with anybody else,
ie overstock.com lists the A330 refurb at $154, wawadigital.com shows
$135 without a hint of it being a refurb on its site. Buyersedge.com
has dozens of scam claim posts about wawadigital.com, but guess what
overal they get a rating of 7.6, due to dozens of 5 star they are
wonderfull reviews.

Stay away and be glad you did, I love you ebay, and I am real sorry I
said anything bad.

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This one looks like $85 plus shipping with 3x optical zoom.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna [...] furbished=



Danglerb wrote:
> Auctions have a builtin perception of value, and ebay has added to this
> with massive advertising to bring in a surplus of buyers, and its
> convenient, the fastest easiest transactions online. Dealing with
> someone that has 300 transactions and 99% positive feedback is like
> Nordstroms service at Target prices. When I say "ha ha" I got a better
> price at X than on ebay I neglect to say I wasted 14 hours and 3 weeks
> to find it, or I spend an hour every day on bargain sites looking for
> one to pop up.
>
> Todays hot deal is a 3.1 MP HP camera, apparently brand new getting
> closed out at newegg.com for $79 plus $6 shipping. No optical zoom and
> eats batteries, so its not for me.
>
> BTW digital photo guys, whats the hot deal camera I should be looking
> for?

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Danglerb wrote:
> Dell is not a bad place to shop, trick is to find a stacking coupon for
> really hot deals.
>
> Kodak 7300 is a bit like the HP, great at $85, but otherwise not a good
> camera choice. Main flaw is no optical zoom, but I have also seen a few
> posts about various problems using usb.


Sorry, I misread. Thought it said optical.


>
> Pentax 33L was very tempting, most people love this camera, but no
> optical viewfinder has me concerned, both for function (my aging eyes)
> and power use.
>
> Mean while on ebay Olympus is selling loads of refurbed cameras around
> $120 shipped, but charges 50 states sales tax on top of that.

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I see what I did now. I had pulled up a list of all their 3mpxl
offerings and the *next* one in line is the one I was shooting for.
Guess I read several of them and went back to the wrong one. It looks
like $135 plus shipping and has optical zoom as well as SD memory, so
it's in the ballpark with what you had listed. I have an older 2mpxl
Kodak that still works well, so I think it should serve you well.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna [...] furbished=



Danglerb wrote:
> Crossing some off my list, XD memory I don't need, I have CF, SD, MMC,
> and would even bite for XM. Smaller and newer seems better too.
> Unfortunately I have the brands and models mentally too confused to
> which is which, but will sort that out soon enough.
>
> Shopping is fun, repeat as needed.

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"Best site for hot camera deals?"

In British English slang, a "hot" camera would be a stolen one....

David

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I was mixed up on brands, short list for now is;

Coolpix 4600, or Canon A510, both new in the box are around $165 right
now.

Both have the same gripe about them too, slow flash recharge time of 6
to 7 seconds, otherwise people seem to love both of them. Looking like
it will come down to the vendor, who I can get the best deal from.

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David J Taylor wrote:
> "Best site for hot camera deals?"
>
> In British English slang, a "hot" camera would be a stolen one....
>
> David
>
>


That is SO last century...

-Guy

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I ended up watching my normal deal sites for a couple weeks, and bought
a Nikon Coolpix 3100 refurb from ecost.com for $92 and tax shipped.
Price value is just a better fit for me right now compared to the A510
or 4600 deals.

Thanks for all help.