Canon EOS 450D DSLR-€514.95-Argos

lindtee · 02-05-2009 10:21am #1

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 · 02-05-2009 10:24am

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

Lumi · 02-05-2009 11:59am

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

O'Coonassa · 02-05-2009 12:05pm

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

lindtee · 02-05-2009 12:07pm

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 · 02-05-2009 12:33pm

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 · 02-05-2009 12:40pm

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 · 02-05-2009 12:56pm

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 · 02-05-2009 2:50pm

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 · 02-05-2009 3:46pm

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

lindtee · 02-05-2009 4:08pm

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 · 02-05-2009 9:47pm

WoW, even cheaper than Argos UK price.

spooky donkey · 02-05-2009 10:19pm

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 · 02-05-2009 10:29pm

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 · 03-05-2009 8:16pm

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 · 04-05-2009 1:16pm

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 · 04-05-2009 2:13pm

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 · 04-05-2009 2:18pm

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

center15 · 04-05-2009 6:34pm

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 · 04-05-2009 11:08pm

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 · 05-05-2009 10:05am

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 · 05-05-2009 12:59pm

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 · 05-05-2009 1:07pm

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.

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 · 05-05-2009 1:23pm

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 · 05-05-2009 2:09pm

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 · 05-05-2009 3:29pm

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 · 06-05-2009 12:42am

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 · 06-05-2009 9:26am

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

BuddhaJoe · 06-05-2009 1:30pm

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 · 06-05-2009 2:55pm

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 · 06-05-2009 3:34pm

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).

Canon EOS 450D DSLR-€514.95-Argos

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