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Lastly...135 f2 as my one long lens?

Started Mar 24, 2016 | Questions thread
cybersimba
cybersimba Senior Member • Posts: 1,724
Re: Lastly...135 f2 as my one long lens?

Owenmorris wrote:

I will check out that site now. Thank you.

Though because I'm in the UK (I'm assuming this site is USA based, yes?) would it still be worth it for me (because of shipping costs and import duty etc)?

Apologies for yet another dumb question.....

oh, sorry. Did not realize that. I do not know if they advertise anything for UK based customers or how it would work out if you order from UK. But I can bet there must be similar sites or providers who can offer you "street prices" in UK. The overall concept is such that, dealers do want to offer discounts at times and they simply cannot advertise them below MAP (minimum advertised price) per manufacturer. If they are caught doing that, it can hurt their ability/relation with mfg in the future. So providers like canonpricewatch act as intermediary.. I am sure canonpricewatch must get some cut in this. However good thing is that a provider in the middle is actually doing all leg work for you whereby you can trust his/her ability to filter out bad apples and get you in touch with only trustworthy dealers. I find that to be the case with this provider at least.

I am sure you can even e-mail these guys to find out if they suggest a similar place, website for customers in UK. see what they say. In US, there is another (rather commercial and recently became popular) website called greentoe... it seems many have used this website to buy their camera equipment. Greentoe has a concept like priceline.com whereby you name your price and greentoe shall look for anyone offering product for that price or closer. Again do not know if greentoe works in UK.

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