Canon 5d mk II on Amazon

I am too straight to send it back and I need it tomorrow for a shoot but it did make me chuckle - been monitoring loads of sites for about a month and the day after......
 
One or two dropped - been looking at the X100 - dropped £80 today on Amazon - where WEX have dropped it just over £50.
 
order another and send the second one back as the first one , you get the camera for the shoot and the money back :)
 
email them. I seem to remember a consumer rights law saying if a product drops in price within a certain time span you are entitled to the reduced price.
 
My girlfriend bought something off amazon and a few days after it arrived she got an email saying that the price had dropped and she will be getting her card debited with the difference. It will probably happen to you.
 
scratch that been doing research it's deemed as a contract Ask nicely amazon are generally very good
 
Ploddles said:
Can't you cancel and then reorder?
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POAH said:
send it back ;)
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JSER said:
7 day cooling off distance selling
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bigtodski said:
order another and send the second one back as the first one , you get the camera for the shoot and the money back :)
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Come on guys, what you're suggesting is technically legal but it's immoral. The Distance Selling Regs are there for a good reason, to prevent customers being ripped off by fraudulent retailers, but it's not meant to be a licence for behaviour like this.

donald said:
I am too straight to send it back
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Well done. :clap:
 
Don't try to tell me that never ever in your life you have not done something that could not be thought of in the same light, I am an honest person, but are you telloing me if you found £20 in the street you would hand it in, and no I would not, not these days
 
JSER said:
are you telloing me if you found £20 in the street you would hand it in
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I found a watch in the street once. Nice Rotary ladies' watch, looked very new, probably worth £100-£200. I handed it in at the police station. Three months later I claimed it back and gave it to my wife.
 
StewartR said:
Come on guys, what you're suggesting is technically legal but it's immoral. The Distance Selling Regs are there for a good reason, to prevent customers being ripped off by fraudulent retailers, but it's not meant to be a licence for behaviour like this.
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It's not really immoral
 
Come on, let's not descend into a debate about whether returning it would be immoral or not. There's never going to be a winner because it's entirely subjective and depends on which way your individual moral compass is pointing.

Personally I think it would be wrong, but that's just my opinion and it doesn't even matter now that the price has gone back up and the OP has no intention of sending it back anyway. Absolutely no harm in dropping Amazon an EMail and explaining that the price dropped by £70 the day after you purchased though - you might be pleasantly surprised at where honesty and a bit of straight forward communication gets you.
 
Immoral - no. The offer price is the offer price....you can buy it or not.

Unlucky - maybe.

As a retailer they can decide to sell a product at whatever level they want - they can also refuse to sell it to you at whatever price.

Price is an offer - take it or leave it. When I buy something of high value, once I have paid for it I stop looking. That way you don't get peed off when it goes down:thumbs:
 
Amazon do price match though if you find it cheaper elsewhere within 14 days.

If you did send it back you have to pay for postage if it's a case of just not wanting it anymore, and with a high value items you would want to send it special delivery so for all the hassle its not really worth it.

I know it's already gone back up and you are not going to return it, I am just saying :)

The price match might be worth a look though if wex have dropped the price.
 
cyclamens said:
Immoral - no. The offer price is the offer price....you can buy it or not.

Unlucky - maybe.

As a retailer they can decide to sell a product at whatever level they want - they can also refuse to sell it to you at whatever price.

Price is an offer - take it or leave it. When I buy something of high value, once I have paid for it I stop looking. That way you don't get peed off when it goes down:thumbs:
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Same here :)
 
To the people saying send it back - When you pay that much for a body, what's £70?!

It was probably well under Canons RRP anyway, and you form an agreement to pay said price on purchase.

Prices will always fluctuate. I bought a new car fairly recently. If I bought the same car at the same spec' today it would actually cost 2k more, as some of the options are no longer standard. Would I want the dealer to email me demanding an extra 2k as the price had changed? No, definitely not! It works both ways, sometimes you have to accept it and be happy with the deal you got.
 
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money is money in this day though. for me £60 is 9 hours work so yes it would be worth it ;)
 
:) I just though it was funny how I had been watching the price for weeks and the day after the price dropped - thats life. I've done my first two shoots with the new camera and have to say it is a big step up from my 40D and I love it already.

Donald
 
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