Where to buy 5D III at a keen price in Florida?

Hello Floridians,

I will be in your state in a couple of weeks - late Jan into early Feb. I will definitely be in Orlando and Miami, maybe Tampa. Where will I get a good price on a 5D Mark III?

I think retail is $3300 at the moment in the states. Not sure if any real discounting has started yet in the U.S.A.

Are there any shops giving discounts? Given how I will be in Florida almost 2 weeks, I could order online and have it shipped to my hotel.

Thank you for any advice you can give.

Check ebay. The usual suspects are selling it for about $2800 or so. But shipping to the hotel sounds like a bad idea. Too easy for the shipment to get "lost". Possibly the seller will not want to do it, either. Good luck, and let us know how it turns out.

I live in Florida and I bought mine from Amazon ($2975 currently) it is sent by UPS and requires signature, so I would think it is safe... whether Amazon will agree or not to ship it to a hotel, I do not know but you can ask them.

Incidentally, it is an excellent camera and a pleasure to use.

I recently purchased mine from BigvalueInc on eBay and highly recommend them. They currently sell MKIII's for $2,837 but they have occasional sales, e.g. $2,499 on Black Friday and later they had several sales at $2,599. You may get lucky and they have another sale before your trip.


As far as shipping, I would not risk using a hotel as a shipping address. Most vendors won't ship to hotels anyway. What I would recommend is using a service such as www.kinek.com. They have a location in Orlando too.


Shipping to such an address if you pay via CC or PayPal would require a confirmed/authorized shipping address, so you would need to call your CC company and tell them to add an alternate shipping address (e.g. Kinek's address in Orlando).