Canon EOS 450D DSLR-€514.95-Argos

lindtee

Ok, a lot of you might think this is a lot for a camera, but this is an excellent camera and €514.95 is excellent for it. A friend paid 700 for the same one 3 months ago!

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/5591143/c_1/2|category_root|Photography|12161348/c_2/3|cat_12161348|Digital+SLR+cameras|12161407.htm?Price+Cut=1

Just checked a few random stores and its out of stock-out of stock in all 3 Cork stores for definate.

TJM

That's a superb price for a bricks & mortar vendor. Excellent camera too.

Lumi

Doesn't seem to be available in any store ... Nuts!!!

O'Coonassa

Cheaper at Amazon and free UK delivery if you've got peeps over the water.

lindtee

Seems that if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is! Either they never had em or they flew out the door! Hardly Normal is doing an "offer" on it this weekend too-€647 including an sd card, which really isn't that good considering this offer.

Ogham

O'Coonassa wrote: »

Cheaper at Amazon and free UK delivery if you've got peeps over the water.

The Canon EOS 450d will work out at about 580 euro delivered here from Amazon - (they do deliver almost everything to Ireland now).

Alanstrainor

lindtee wrote: »

Seems that if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is! Either they never had em or they flew out the door! Hardly Normal is doing an "offer" on it this weekend too-€647 including an sd card, which really isn't that good considering this offer.

Yeah but they've been known to mess up pricing on camera gear before. Remember picking up my 28-135mm lens there for silly money when they mispriced it, it took a while to come into stock but i got it in the end.

lindtee

There was one left in Tralee which I just reserved in case a non-boardsie copped it!:pac::pac: Pm me if anyone wants the reservation number-can be collected til monday.

god's toy

I was in the market for upgrading from my bridge cam, good news indeed!

I hear they are killing the 450D now too, it's replacement had HD recording at 720P. (watch your SD card fill up in seconds!)

Is Argos the best price around do you think?

magicEye

One left in Sligo too according to website....up for grabs, if you hurry up

lindtee

god's toy wrote: »

I was in the market for upgrading from my bridge cam, good news indeed!

I hear they are killing the 450D now too, it's replacement had HD recording at 720P. (watch your SD card fill up in seconds!)

Is Argos the best price around do you think?

I don't think you'll beat it in a bricks n mortar in Ireland but there only seems to be 2 of them in stock in the whole country!

Out of stock in Sligo unless Magic eye reserved it! Still have the reservation no for Tralee for those interested!

Canonfan

WoW, even cheaper than Argos UK price.

spooky donkey

Cannon have a 500d About to hit the market it has high def video. This could be why they are selling it cheap. And i was looking at this camera for 570 off Komplett.ie recently seems a little cheaper than amazons price. Still good price if you can pick one up in argos. I heard of a camera shop that was selling them for 460 in Newery but i cant remember their name now. If i remember ill post back.

magicEye

lindtee wrote: »

I don't think you'll beat it in a bricks n mortar in Ireland but there only seems to be 2 of them in stock in the whole country!

Out of stock in Sligo unless Magic eye reserved it! Still have the reservation no for Tralee for those interested!

Nope, I didn't reserve it! Good price but not interested this time.
Surely somebody else grabbed it!

center15

Since this is outta stock in Argos does anyone know best place to best it cheap? Currys up North have it for £500 prob won't find it cheaper than that incl delivery to Ireland.

CantGetNoSleep

center15 wrote: »

Since this is outta stock in Argos does anyone know best place to best it cheap? Currys up North have it for £500 prob won't find it cheaper than that incl delivery to Ireland.

Can't find any option for them to deliver it to ROI

CH3OH

Argos stores won't have had any deliveries over the weekend. It may come back into stock after Tuesday. I'd suggest checking Tuesday night.

BuddhaJoe

Deliveries are coming in on Wednesday, or at least thats what the website said when I reserved one last Friday

center15

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Can't find any option for them to deliver it to ROI

Sorry I meant that £500 in the North is probably the cheapest price you can get compared to buying off the net incl. delivery to Ireland.

I went into the Mahon Argos store today they said delievery would be on the 27th of May . by then the price will probably have gone up. I checked Currys as well its €670 incl the uk vat promo they have going at the moment. I really wanna get this camera now!!

Edit: oh and also the argos in store reserve thingy showed the price at €550

buckfasterer

BuddhaJoe wrote: »

Deliveries are coming in on Wednesday, or at least thats what the website said when I reserved one last Friday

That actually means coming into the warehouse on Wednesday. The warehouse is in England and then gets distributed to all the stores so your actually looking at the start of next week or Friday at the very earliest before stock gets this far.

BuddhaJoe

buckfasterer wrote: »

That actually means coming into the warehouse on Wednesday. The warehouse is in England and then gets distributed to all the stores so your actually looking at the start of next week or Friday at the very earliest before stock gets this far.

I was told the shops in the city center will have them Wednesday and the shops outside the city centre will have them Thursday.

foggy_lad

BuddhaJoe wrote: »

I was told the shops in the city center will have them Wednesday and the shops outside the city centre will have them Thursday.

when you reserve items i did not think it gave details of future deliveries? if an item is available to order then you will bw able to reserve it and will be notified when it comes into stock in your store. the detail you mention is not given out on the reservations page, did you email argos for this information?

this is just another rubbish price drop by argos, the item is most likely being discontinued and argos waited until they were almost out of stock to cut the price, if they were serious they would have had much more stock. they are always doing this type of scamming giving the illusion they are cutting prices when they are not.

BuddhaJoe

foggy_lad wrote: »

when you reserve items i did not think it gave details of future deliveries? if an item is available to order then you will bw able to reserve it and will be notified when it comes into stock in your store. the detail you mention is not given out on the reservations page, did you email argos for this information?

I made two reservations last Friday, one for myself and one for a friend. For the one I made in Jervis it told me the camera was out of stock but would be in stock and ready for collection on May 6th and for my friend in Dun Laoghaire it said the camera would be in stock and available for collection on May 7th. They also sent me the following email:

Thank you for using Argos.ie


Your reservation number is ***********

This will be held at the Jervis Street (Dublin) store for collection from Wednesday, May 6th 2009 to Saturday, May 9th 2009.

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Here are the details of the item(s) you have reserved.

Cat No Product Name Qty Subtotal
559/1143 Canon EOS 450D Digital SLR Camera with 1 EUR514.95 +*
18 55 Lens.

Total EUR514.95

Canonfan

BuddhaJoe wrote: »

I made two reservations last Friday, one for myself and one for a friend. For the one I made in Jervis it told me the camera was out of stock but would be in stock and ready for collection on May 6th and for my friend in Dun Laoghaire it said the camera would be in stock and available for collection on May 7th. They also sent me the following email:

Thank you for using Argos.ie


Your reservation number is ***********

This will be held at the Jervis Street (Dublin) store for collection from Wednesday, May 6th 2009 to Saturday, May 9th 2009.

---

Here are the details of the item(s) you have reserved.

Cat No Product Name Qty Subtotal
559/1143 Canon EOS 450D Digital SLR Camera with 1 EUR514.95 +*
18 55 Lens.

Total EUR514.95

In case you change your mind, i will offer asking price for the camera, plus free lunch.:D

BuddhaJoe

Canonfan wrote: »

In case you change your mind, i will offer asking price for the camera, plus free lunch.:D

I definitely wont be but my mate isn't sure if he can afford it at the moment. If he falls through ill pm you his reservation number for Dun Laoghaire.

Canonfan

BuddhaJoe wrote: »

I definitely wont be but my mate isn't sure if he can afford it at the moment. If he falls through ill pm you his reservation number for Dun Laoghaire.

If that's the case, you just earned yourself a new mate.:D

center15

Just reserved one in Blackpool, Cork wasn't there today when I checked. I reckon the reserves end at midnight might be worth checking the other stores!

brettmirl

I tried a lot of the stores near me just now, and all were showing out of stock.

BuddhaJoe

Got mine from Jervis an hour ago Not sure if theres any unreserved stock but there's no harm in checking

Canonfan wrote: »

If that's the case, you just earned yourself a new mate.:D

His gf is going halves with him so he's going to get it, sorry bout that.

Canonfan

BuddhaJoe wrote: »

Got mine from Jervis an hour ago Not sure if theres any unreserved stock but there's no harm in checking



His gf is going halves with him so he's going to get it, sorry bout that.

No worries mate, thank you all the same. I wanted one for my friend. I swithed to Nikon D700.

Mod how can i change my user name?:D

Glad you got yours, enjoy!

Thirdfox

Lol you could always put it in the sig "Nikonfan - formerly Canonfan"

Just a shout out on behalf of the Nikon dSLRs - the D40/D60 are very capable cameras too (and D40 costs around 300 euro I hear nowadays - it's around 250-300 dollars here).

center15

Picked up mine today also picked up Sandisk 3 4GB card good price for it at €27. Also picked up this case.

kdobey

center15 wrote: »

Picked up mine today also picked up Sandisk 3 4GB card good price for it at €27. Also picked up this case.

Gulp
Not the worst price I guess considering I saw similar in Tesco for 48 euro or so the other day (or was that 2GB). However just looking at dealextream http://www.dealextreme.com/products.dx/category.308 you'll do better. (and you'll do even better the DX for memory cards of course - ebay is you friend!!

All that aside. Anyone any suggestions where to buy a Nikon D80/D90.

center15

None of the cards on dealExtreme seem so be as fast as the Extreme III though.

lindtee

center15 wrote: »

None of the cards on dealExtreme seem so be as fast as the Extreme III though.

That is a good price for the extreme III, just tried to reserve it there but site is down:(

center15

lindtee wrote: »

That is a good price for the extreme III, just tried to reserve it there but site is down:(

I checked some other stores when I booked mine so could let fello boardies know. But it was outta stock in most stores I checked.

lindtee

center15 wrote: »

I checked some other stores when I booked mine so could let fello boardies know. But it was outta stock in most stores I checked.

:(

Edit-site up and running again and just reserved the last one in Mahon! Thanks

Canonfan

Just reserved a couple for fellow boardies, pm me for reservation code. All in Dublin city centre.


I meant the Canon 450D camera not the Sandisk card, i should have made that clear.

Hmm_Messiah

I've been up at all hours trying to nab one of thiese - the website closing at night wrecks my head

but I could not make dublin until Monday so dunno if reservations last til then ?

otherwise would not like to ask for a reservation some one else could use

Canonfan

Hmm_Messiah wrote: »

I've been up at all hours trying to nab one of thiese - the website closing at night wrecks my head

but I could not make dublin until Monday so dunno if reservations last til then ?

otherwise would not like to ask for a reservation some one else could use

The code is good until tomorrow(09/05) 6pm i'm afraid.

hollywoodhoppy

any more updates on these lads? have been monitoring the stock in various branches but no dice. Would ye reckon they are getting more in?

dirtynosebeps

heres a link for the difference between argos north and south for the same camera.
http://www.cataloguecompare.com/?partNumber=5591143

BuddhaJoe

hollywoodhoppy wrote: »

any more updates on these lads? have been monitoring the stock in various branches but no dice. Would ye reckon they are getting more in?

Stephens Green had 3 last night.

workaccount

lindtee wrote: »

There was one left in Tralee which I just reserved in case a non-boardsie copped it!:pac::pac: Pm me if anyone wants the reservation number-can be collected til monday.

Haha your a legend. Talk about community spirit.

Hmm_Messiah

I check all the listed stores after close of business (when reservations should run out) later at night and early am when the website comes back on line

and no luck
and my birthday is Tuesday

I'm really not having any luck

hollywoodhoppy

BuddhaJoe wrote: »

Stephens Green had 3 last night.

damn, i checked it a few times and a load of other places and no dice.if anyone comes across any to spare, let me know thanks, hopefully there'll be more stock this week but not holding my breath

Hmm_Messiah

The woman in Kilkenny told me they "should come in" as are a main catalogue item not an offer catalogue
the catalogue they appear in reduced is valid until June 19th

Nightwish

I got me one!!! I cant wait to get out and about with it

Hmm_Messiah

Nightwish wrote: »

I got me one!!! I cant wait to get out and about with it

Do ya (or your nearest and dearest) work in Argos ?

Nightwish

I used to work there.

Hmm_Messiah

I won't feel too bad once you are nto the girl who used work there, is on maternity leave and who I kinda asked to enquire for me



I wouldn't mind but I can't really afford it - but I love my canon Ixus and having all the additional capabilities would be just so sweet


If any one managed to reserve in KK/carlow/Dublin/Cork I would really genuinely appreciate it