It doesn’t happen often that I find super deals in Europe. Those kind of huge price drops I usually find in US stores. This one is really strange. While the normal E-M5 body price in Europe is around 1100 Euro (see Amazon Germany) you can get crazy low prices in one country only….Italy! There is now a 300 Euro price drop on Pixmania Italy (Click here). I checked and there is o such deals on the other Pixmania Europe stores. Another italian store having good prices and shipping to Europe is [shoplink 33660 ebay]Bartoletti eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
The best 75mm lens prices are in France eBay [shoplink 33662 ebay]here[/shoplink] and [shoplink 33660 ebay]here[/shoplink].
Back to the newly announced stuff:
It’s almost impossible to find European preorder options on the new Oly/Pana cameras.
Found the GH3 in Germany at Fotobantle and in UK at Wex.
E-PL5 preorders at Amazon Germany, Amazon UK, Amazon France,
E-PM2 at Amazon Germany, Amazon UK, Amazon France,
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really great pricing here, but how about outgoing postal services? I do know that alot of ebay traders do not want to send to italy because lots of packages do not arrive. Anyone have experience with this?
no, it isn’t true.
Unfortunately some vendors do refuse to send products to Italy. They clearly state this on their sites. One reason is that the state mail service is not at all reliable (I speak from years of experience) but the other is that if products come from Hong Kong, China, outside Europe, etc, they are often stopped by the Customs Office. Sometimes, weeks later, you receive a 2-page form and a tax to pay. Or you receive nothing.
However, good vendors give you the choice of using “signed for” courier services and these function well. But we have to pay more.
However if you are ordering a camera from an Italian store with regular courier service, it will certainly arrive. Unless, your country has its own custom limitations.
Wonderful. Anyone know of a physical store in Milano that typically matches local online prices?
I guess the recent rise of the value of the euro against the US dollar will bring many more prices down.
The opposite of “no news is good news”. May it continue, ubiquitously! 🙂
Pixmania is widely known as untrustworthy. Nevertheless, in this case it is just a middleman for starstore, that is a reliable seller. I advise to buy directly from them, if possible, at starstore.it/p/71172
UK prices are just ridicules, absolutely RIDICULES. 25% higher than Germany.
Has there been any info when, and if, the body only (lens cap) kits will arrive? (prices?) Don’t treally want the small kit lens.
In Italy it isn’t a great discount:830 euro is the normal price for the body-only in every photo-store.
On the postal service…yep, our post isn’t great, but normally this kind of item will be shipped with international couriers like TNT or UPS.
P.S.
I will not make promotion for anyone, but if you are interested in italian E-m5 for save money, you can ask informations to specialized store:for example Deshop.it(the owner is a well knowed supporters of 4/3 in Italy, he’s the admin of the most important dedicated forum), FotoColombo.it, Totalfoto.it or bartolettionline.it.
Hello
can anybody recommend any good store in eastern part of Italy, lets say Venice,Treviso,Udine,Palmanova,Trieste…close to Slovenia, so I can pick up camera by myself?
Thanks
I would like to suggest you to stay away from this seller “starstore”..they are well known for their low feedback and support
From buyers opinions on ‘trovaprezzi’:
Starstore – 4.5 stars out of 5 (439 opinions)
Pixmania – 3.5 out of 5 (226 op.)
Moreover, from my personal experience, while my order on starstore was flawless, pixmania never sent me what I ordered, and after many months, messages, and (demanded) signed documents stating I never received the package, they finally decided to ignore me. And I’m not the only one with this kind of experience, if you choose to buy from them, you are warned.
The low prices in Italy are due to the fact that the italian Olympus importer (Polyphoto) chose not to offer the free battery grip to all E-M5 buyers. Other european buyers can claim a free battery grip when buying an E-M5.
All on all the battery grip is NOT free, as you can see… wouldn’t be better to keep prices low instead of giving a battery grip to many people that actually do not need it?
Which countries (european) OMD comes with grip?
I asked Olympus Netherlands about the grip via their FB page and they stated that each country division decides themselves whats included(the grip is not free in NL )
Which countries?
As far i know, only Olympus UK. had the preordre offer for the grip.
Admin, does this imply that there is a new high-end MFT from Olympus? The successor to the EM5? If so any details/timelines?
Italian post services and custom services aren’t known fr being especially speedy and effective ! Look at what eBay dealers ave to say concerning shipping to Italy. I’d be cautious unless the seller makes sure that for shipping to the EU the camera hasn’t to be checked by the custom in a way or another, even if it doesn’t go through the regular international custom.
Of course there’s no custom at all between european coutries that are in the EU. The long shipping and custom clearing times are related to packages coming from outside the EU and shipped with public postal service.
Shipping from this shops is always done with private couriers, not with the italian public postal service. Everything I buy online in Italy and is shipped with a private courier arrives to me (in Italy) in 24 hrs and also the public postal service now has got a fast delivery service delivered in 24hrs and traceable.
Still more expensive then picking it up in the US though. So if you travel to the US for work or otherwise, that’s still the best deal.
The pixmania price went up and is now showing an impressive 999999 € tag. I’m not sure I want an E-M5 that bad 😉
Here in Croatia I recently bought my E-M5 12-50 kit for €1100 which I found a good deal. And it is their regular price in one of local web shops (picked up myself), not any super deal.
Some time ago I also got there my m.Zuiko 45 1.8 for a mere €250 which I found even cheaper than in the U.S. And this is with the highest VAT rate in Europe of 25%. 🙂