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Most web sites, plus the latest edition of the Canon EOS magazine, suggest a RRP of £1699 for the 7d body. On checking a couple of different online US stores, I also note they are both selling the 7d body for 1699. One major difference, they are selling it for 1699 dollars!

http://www.buydig.com/shop/product.aspx?sku=CNEOS7D
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16830120383

Is it just a pure coincidence that it is selling at a similar numerical number, or have our British stores misunderstood the RRP price.
It is a fairly major difference ($1699 = approx. £1063).
We keep hearing that our photography stores sell with fairly low profit margins, but taking all factors into account, it looks like it might be worthwhile holding off and watching the price reduce in the uk over the coming months.
 
You just wakeing up to the fact we live in rip off britian? you also got to look at the yen exchange rate I think for canon stuff. If you know where to shop you can get a uk version for around £1400 or a us import one for around £1300.
 
No both are correct, it is just the usual rip off Britain. Most things these days are 1$=1£.
USA wants everything cheap so the rest of the world has to pay.
Also remember some US states add extra tax. Wait till the price drops, or use the Honk Kong shops.
 
liverpoolgth said:
No both are correct, it is just the usual rip off Britain. Most things these days are 1$=1£.
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No they're not. This is just the usual slag-off Britain stuff you get in the Daily Mule, repeated, ad nauseum, by people who want it to be true.

The 7D is currently selling in the UK for a lot more than it will be selling in a few month's time. The vendors are making a mint from the early adopters who will pay full price to get their mitts on one ASAP. In the US competition is fiercer and prices are, as a consequence, lower from the very start. After the initial rush we'll see UK prices drop.

Exactly the same happened with the 50D. You can see the change in price here. After a few months at £1200, it quickly dropped to around £850 and stayed there.

Let's check out the price of the 50D. WEx has it for £720. B&H are selling it for $1050 - that's around £660. Add the VAT to the B&H price and we get £759. Suddenly we find that the rip-off Britain price is actually cheaper than the US price.
 
I disagree that fierce competition has caused a lower price in the US. The RRP is the same in both countries (i.e. $1699 £1699) - competition won't have anything to do with this.

I agree that the price of the 7D will drop here, but this should also be the case in the US.
 
The 7D is already well below £1699 in a number of high profile outlets... Christmas is coming - Canon may launch a cashback scheme again? Who knows...
 
I will hopefully be getting my 7D for $1699 (plus 8.75% sales tax) when in New York next week. In total it should cost about £1160. Shame it is not long $2 to the Pound any more, and damned if I will pay £500 extra for a UK 3 pin plug.
 
Is there any differnce with the imported 7D and a UK 7D?
 
scrag68 said:
Is there any differnce with the imported 7D and a UK 7D?
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I'd guess that from some countries there may be a different plug in the box for the charger - but that would be about it (Other than potential warranties of course).. but the physical camera itself I don't think there would be any..

My last cameras (400d and 40d) were bought by me in HK personally - no difference to UK in any way other than the warranty card.
 
Orville said:
I will hopefully be getting my 7D for $1699 (plus 8.75% sales tax) when in New York next week. In total it should cost about £1160.
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... but only so long as you choose to avoid paying VAT on entry to the UK, and you don't get any awkward questions asked at customs....
 
scrag68 said:
Is there any differnce with the imported 7D and a UK 7D?
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Afaik you don't get an EU warranty so you'll need to send it back to the USA etc.

Lenses are different, they come with worldwide warranty
 
Peter10d said:
I would rather take a chance and save over £600, even if there was no warranty.
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Sorry, don't see how you're saving £600 if you're paying £1160 plus VAT that gives a saving of just over £10 when compared to somebody like Digital Rev.
 
StewartR said:
... but only so long as you choose to avoid paying VAT on entry to the UK, and you don't get any awkward questions asked at customs....
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I will not choose to avoid paying VAT. My wife holds an American passport so she (I) will not have to declare anything. We travel to the USA 6 or 7 times per year and have never been stopped or asked questions by Customs.
 
hollis_f said:
Sorry, don't see how you're saving £600 if you're paying £1160 plus VAT that gives a saving of just over £10 when compared to somebody like Digital Rev.
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And at that price you won't be paying VAT with Digital Rev I assume.
 
StewartR said:
... but only so long as you choose to avoid paying VAT on entry to the UK, and you don't get any awkward questions asked at customs....
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You can claim the 8.75% sales tax back though, to offset against the VAT.
 
Kerso quoted me £1,300 a couple of weeks ago, for October delivery.

That is with all UK taxes paid, and warranty with Canon UK.
 
recent Canon RRP's do seem to be a bit 'out there'... e.g. the forthcoming g11 priced at 499 USD or 569 GBP... still, give it a few months & the price will adjust
 
kumimajava said:
recent Canon RRP's do seem to be a bit 'out there'..
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Not just recent RRPs. If you go to Park Camera's site you'll be able to see the RRPs. Check out the lenses - 70-200 f2.8 IS is on sale for £1544, a tad less than the RRP of £2239. Or the 50D - RRP is £1190, on sale for £709.

I promise you, the same will happen to the 7D. In a few months we'll see the big merchants dropping the price below £1500. I notice that Amazon have already dropped theirs (although they say it's not actually being released until Jan 2010??).
 
Pixmania is listing the 7D for £1507 including VAT and 2 year warranty, although not available till 23rd October. You can get 4.5% cash back on that price (£67) bringing the net cost down to £1440 + delivery by visiting the Pixmania site via TopCashBack (referral link).

Even the daily graph at Camerapricebuster is showing a nice downward trend on price....

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If you don't mind Hong Kong stock then under £1400 (or even under £1300) is easily achievable with no further tax to pay.

Personally, if and when I'm ready to buy I think my money will be going either to Kerso or Stuart at Digital Depot, but at the moment I'm holding fire on a purchase.

EDIT : I just noticed that Digital Rev has reduced the price from their online store (not eBay) to £1320 (including VAT) + delivery - http://www.digitalrev.com/en/canon-...&search_category_id=0&lprice=500&match_type=1 making it £1345 in all.
 
maybe of interest RGBPHOTO are advertiseing the 7d body for £1299.99p and £1749,99p with the 15-85 is lens in this months digital photo mag, but there web site does not show the same prices.
 
Orville said:
I will not choose to avoid paying VAT. My wife holds an American passport so she (I) will not have to declare anything.
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I think that you will find that HMRC disagree with you on that - it doesn't matter what passport you hold but where your permanent residence is.
 
i bought a 40d from ** galaxy on ebay, there no longer around now, but used to be very cheap.

it was a grey import, but canon uk replaced the shutter on it under warranty, was quite surprised that they did.
 
The price has dropped again at Digital Rev. It's now £1225 including VAT and delivery for the body only, or body plus grip for £1368 including VAT and delivery.

http://www.digitalrev.com/en/canon-eos-7d-429-category.html

I did place an order this morning, but then, having just visited http://www.canonrumors.com/ I see we can almost certainly expect a 1D4 announcement next week so I've cancelled the 7D for the time being.
 
OneStopDigital now have:-
- 7D body @ £1,264.79
- 7D body + EF-S 18-155 IS @ £1,487.99

Prices seem to be dropping by the day....gonna wait another couple of months :)
 
tdodd said:
The price has dropped again at Digital Rev. It's now £1225 including VAT and delivery for the body only, or body plus grip for £1368 including VAT and delivery.

http://www.digitalrev.com/en/canon-eos-7d-429-category.html

I did place an order this morning, but then, having just visited http://www.canonrumors.com/ I see we can almost certainly expect a 1D4 announcement next week so I've cancelled the 7D for the time being.
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Might seem a silly question - but I'd see the 1d4 and the 7d as two very different cameras (and prices) - I'd expect the 1d4 to be twice if not three times the price of a 7d - why would you order a 7d, then cancel in terms of a 1d4? That'll be a whacking difference in price?
 
Well currently I have a 30D, 40D, 50D and 1D3. I love the IQ, the AF and the customisation that the 1D3 offers, but at low ISO (100-200) the 50D beats it for reach. The real frustration with the 50D is the miserable AF for tracking BIF (at least in my unskilled hands) and the fact that noise quickly erodes the reach advantage from 400 ISO and above. The frustration with the 1D3 is the lack of reach, compared to the 50D, at low ISOs. I also wish it would AF in Live View.

The 7D should easily address the issues I have with the 50D's AF performance and should improve IQ a little, but not by a huge leap. The AF upgrade is a strong temptation, and there is more to like as well, including the wireless falsh control and the better viewfinder. I'm not sure I have a use for the video side of things but you never know.

The thing is, with the 1D4 seemingly just around the corner rather than months away, I'm curious to see just what it will offer above and beyond the 7D. I doubt very much that the announcement/release of the 1D4 will have an upward effect on the 7D price. If anything it will depress it further. For the sake of waiting a week I can afford to hang on. That said, if the 1D4 turns out to be a true sensation then I don't mind paying more for a quality product. To have reach, AF and IQ across a broad range of ISOs is very tempting.

As good as the 7D appears to be, at the end of the day it is still a piddly APS-C sensor and will not have the light gathering capacity of a larger sensor, or offer the flexibility to blur the background as well as APS-H or full frame. In truth I would probably be better served by buying full frame rather than yet another APS-C body but Canon doesn't have anything to tempt me in the full frame lineup. Today's £1225 price for the 7D sounds a lot more tempting than that ludicrous £1700 launch price, but I think it's worth waiting a week to see what the 1D4 will bring.
 
That makes a bit more sense now :) Wonder if the 7d will hit a £1000 in time for Christmas? (maybe if there's a cashback included it could?)
 
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