Finally I found a very good deal for us europeans 🙂
The Olympus E-P1 is in Stock for less than 400 Euro at:
Pixmanai Spain / Pixmania Holland / Pixmania Deutschland / Pixmania Österreich
P.S.: I am a proud owner of the Olympus E-P1 since August 2009 and I am completely happy with it!
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Dealing with Pixmania is always something of a lottery. Price wise they’re usually pretty good but their customer service is errrrm less so.
If all goes well – great, you’ve got a good deal.
Slow deliveries, faulty items and missing english power leads/plugs and manuals [they’re French based] cause mucho heartache for the buyer and there’s very little in the way of response from the seller to emails, phone calls etc.
They’re cheap for a reason. Caveat emptor.
for french customers, it’s cheaper here : http://www.digixo.com/photo/reflex-numerique/olympus/p254043-pen-e-p1-silver—objectif-olympus-m.zuiko-digitaled-14-42mm-1:3.5-5.6-silver-.html
In the UK it’s been available at £329 for the last week or so at these places…
http://www.dixons.co.uk/gbuk/olympus-pen-e-p1-micro-four-thirds-digital-camera-with-14-42mm-lens-04005304-pdt.html
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/olympus-pen-e-p1-micro-four-thirds-digital-camera-with-14-42mm-lens-04005304-pdt.html?srcid=867&xtor=AL-50
At Dixons, that price is even available in store! (Haven’t been in PCWorld to check)
– Jaspar
There are a few cheaper merchants:
http://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/OffersOfProduct/1748154_-pen-e-p1-14-42mm-olympus.html
I wonder… price reduction ahead of a new PEN at Photokina…?
For spanish people: http://fotocasion.es/fichaarticulo.php?ida=29874&idf=0101010600
The other day they have the E-P1 at 325€, now it’s at 385€. The shop is one of the most reputated here but I don’t know if it does international shipment.
I’ve got nothing to complain about Pixmania, on the contrary, but (and this is a big but!) even though I might order online I usually collect from their brick and mortar shop in Lisbon.
Deliveries are very fast (36 hours to deliver an E-P2 EVF kit), and customer service is OK. In fact they were my only option to test drive the E-P2 EVF. I got one last week which I will be returning after this weekend, no questions asked.
Here in Portugal 90% of the time they are the rational choice in photo equipment.
Irish consumers left in the cold as usual by retailers.
The E-P1 is one of my favorite cameras ever. Nice build quality and size, with fairly good image quality (and a nice mate to the Panasonic 20mm F1.4). Thanks for keeping us updated on reduced prices (it’s nice to recommend to friends etc.)