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Amazon Prime Day announced for July 15-16
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Uhh, there's a large demand for expensive lenses being sold second-hand. Lots of photographers collect lenses second-hand because of people switching to different cameras with incompatible lenses.
Yeah maybe this is just people trying to convince themselves they didn't miss out. I'm checking eBay now and finding a ton of completed/sold listings on the II one model lower selling pre owned for 6500-7000 with upwards of 20 bids. Those 13000 dollar lenses easily would've been flipped super quick for 10 grand. All at an insanely low buy in of 90 dollars. You guys absolutely crushed it on your hauls no doubt, just saying I disagree with the idea that the lesser value ones were the better buy.
I've been in this hobby for 4 years now, i'm well aware that people buy lenses second hand, lmao.
an 800mm pro-level super telephoto has a MUUUUUUCH smaller pool of potential users than an a6000 or an a7III. as a flipper or a dealer, i would much rather acquire stuff that I know for sure i'll have no trouble moving. This isn't a hard concept to grasp.
For a niche lens like that it'd actually be better to throw it on Sharegrid and have people rent it for 100/day, you'll have an income stream off it for years.
And those in the market for these lenses that missed out on the price glitch are going to know to look for these lenses being sold second-hand. This isn't a hard concept to grasp.
And you were intitially speaking as if you can't find people who need these lenses. You're walking it back now.
OH MY GOD.
Me (and a couple others) said it would be harder to find buyers for an 800mm 13k dollar lens than it would be to find buyers for a6xxxx series and A7III and such cameras. THATS IT. And it's also true, that stuff moves a lot faster than expensive niche lenses.
You are WAY too invested in a casual disagreement in a thread about Prime Day deals. Wow.
I also just disagreed with you. I gave you my reasons why I disagreed. The you dropped passive-aggressive comments. I gave the same passive-aggressive comment to you back and now you're acting like I'm the one taking it too far....
Ordered 4 Sony Alpha 6000 Monday. I saw the deal but was distracted by the $400 75 inch TV Best Buy (which Best Buy freaking cancelled for everyone) had so I didn't order more or looked at other cameras, plus it was 3 am and I had work at 6 am.
Been checking all week as only the 1st order had a delivery date on Wednesday, which passed and it updated to being deliver Friday instead. Now finally, 2 of the order shipped. 2 more order with pending date. Even still, $200 for $1K worth of camera is still an amazing deal haha.
Been checking all week as only the 1st order had a delivery date on Wednesday, which passed and it updated to being deliver Friday instead. Now finally, 2 of the order shipped. 2 more order with pending date. Even still, $200 for $1K worth of camera is still an amazing deal haha.
Lol did you really think you're just gonna find someone like a snap of your fingers for those telephoto lens? Those things are straight difficult af to sell unless you're doing an eBay auction where you could get scammed or get lowballed out the ass on Craigslist and sites like that.
As someone with experience using Amazon Trade-In, they do not fuck around. You aren't trading directly to Amazon, but a third-party.
They will take one look at your Echo 3, which looks nothing like an Echo 2 and reject your trade-in. Yes, they'll send it back, but you will be charged the $27.50 in promotional credit you received for sending them a banana when they asked you to send them an apple. Literally, the Echo 3 has a trade-in value of $0.00, they do not accept it.
I've traded in probably 50+ items with them, maybe more, when they took games and movies, along with consoles, tablets, fireTVs, ect… I know how they work. I dont lose anything here. If they reject it, I'll ebay it.
Woke up this morning to find that my x-h1 camera body shipped! All of my stuff has now shipped! I can't believe it, hahaha. 4500 dollars worth of gear for a little over 200 bucks total. After years of missing out on this stuff, I feel like I won the lottery.
Yeah. Stuff like that is bought for a very very specific purpose, is almost always for a job, and are usually RENTED.
Yeah. Stuff like that is bought for a very very specific purpose, is almost always for a job, and are usually RENTED.
My 2 dollar keyboard shipped this morning. Guess the earlier you ordered the better chance you had to get it.
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Hmmmm the Echo Show 5 I ordered on Monday has not shipped, and it says delivering today. Good luck with that.
I honestly don't think I've seen more then a handful of people buy those lenses out right, and if they were it was someone like National Geographic.
Again I posted above. Check eBay sold listings, they sell all the time and for almost full price. You would easily flip those, I don't know why this is even up for debate at this point. Look you guys crushed it with your hauls, if you snagged a ton of those 13k lenses those you'd have really crushed it
Edit- again one model lower actually, sells for about 3-4k less.
Used sold for 7k
Brand New sold for 11.5k
Used sold for over 6000.
If you've never seen them sold or think they don't sell, you haven't looked hard enough. All 3 posted here were sold in the last few weeks. If you snagged one of those 13k lenses and put it on eBay for 10k you'd sell it in a heartbeat.
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Someone probably got fired at Amazon over that fuckup, right? I wonder what the total $ damage was.
It's especially mind blowing that even days later the stuff was still getting shipped out to people. I mean I understand the ones that slipped through on the first or next day, but someone here said they got cameras shipped today, two days after the glitch, so they had plenty of time to stop those but didn't :/
It's especially mind blowing that even days later the stuff was still getting shipped out to people. I mean I understand the ones that slipped through on the first or next day, but someone here said they got cameras shipped today, two days after the glitch, so they had plenty of time to stop those but didn't :/
From what I heard, they decided to fulfilled the orders. One of my order that had a delivery date of July 29 got move forward to this week.
The loss is probably in the tens of millions. But compare to what they made for those 2 days, it's a tiny portion. Plus they can use it as a marketing tactics for next year.
The glitch that allowed people to order any camera or photography items for $95, regardless of the items original price.
Wow.
But they stopped the keyboards in their tracks. Now I'm curious why they decided to let these go.
Are you talking about the $2 keyboard? They were shipped. Mine is getting deliver today.
I have 4 orders alone. Most people ordered multiple items. The Sony A6000 was the most ordered, but a bunch of the camera were much more than $1K. The RX1 is like $3K, someone here got like 5-6 of them.
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Luckily there weren't more orders. There was a price mistake at Best Buy too for the 75 inch TCL TV for $400 at around the same time, so that distracted people. Otherwise there would be way more orders.
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dude gonna make 15k profit off a glitch.
I woulda done it too. im jealous haha
uckn nuts.
dude gonna make 15k profit off a glitch.
I woulda done it too. im jealous haha
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So much for 2-day delivery. My Echo Show has shipped and is scheduled for Monday. That is one week from the order date. I thought this was an advertisement for Prime LOL.
Considering I'm replacing a 7 year old laptop, that's an absolute monster size and weight wise, getting even more than what I ordered is pretty awesome.
Yeah she gets it from me so I totally deserved it. I was regretting not signing for the packages online. It was complete despair after coming so close. The way she worded it sounded completely real. She got me 100%.
That's awesome! Congrats
Yeah I used the photos deal to pay toward a cheap vacuum for my classroom.
Hey guys, I need your advice.
I ordered this on Monday
It still hasn't shipped. I got it for 70 bucks. It's unlikely that I'll find a better price than that, but do you think this thing is ever gonna ship? Should I call and complain?
If I could find a blue plush/shag rug of that size for a similar price in store, I would have done that. However, most seem to charge like 200 bucks for a good one.
Hey guys, I need your advice.
I ordered this on Monday
It still hasn't shipped. I got it for 70 bucks. It's unlikely that I'll find a better price than that, but do you think this thing is ever gonna ship? Should I call and complain?
If I could find a blue plush/shag rug of that size for a similar price in store, I would have done that. However, most seem to charge like 200 bucks for a good one.
I have been buying from Amazon for over 18 years now. I never had an order not ship. Is the rug supposed to be fulfilled by Amazon or a third party?
I think it's a third party but I have had things cancelled before. It would be bizarre if a best seller they had a deal of the day on went that way though.