That’s a great deal: Get 20% off on all Olympus camera by using the coupon code “PRESIDENT” in your cart for savings at GetOlympus (Click here). These low outlet prices are valid for two days only (Feb 17 and Feb 18). This means:
1) You pay $895 only for the Black E-M1 at GetOlympus (Click here).
2) $703 for the E-M5 with 12-50mm at GetOlympus (Click here).
3) $863 for the E-P5 with 17mm f/1.8 lens at GetOlympus (Click here).
And so on….
That said the E-M1 sells for $1299 (new) via third party resellers at Amazon US (Click here).
Full list of Panasonic and Olympus deals can be seen at Amazon US (Click here).
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When I looked, approximately 30 minutes after the posting, the EM-1 was out of stock. I would have snapped one up at that price, but it looks like they may have been advertising a sale on something they didn’t actually have.
Over at dpreview.com one poster mentioned he was able to snag the reconditioned E-M1, but I have to imagine they only had single digit numbers of bodies (or just 1). I used to to finally get the EM-5/12-50mm.
I must have seen this post minutes if not seconds after it went up and the EM1 is already out of stock. Kind of misleading that it is the featured product in the ad
How many refurbished E-M1 bodies could there have been? One? Three? Five? If such an offer is posted on a website that’s read by thousands of people, the stuff is sold within fractions of a second. These posts don’t really make sense.
Accomplishes nothing but bad will. They could easily run the special without advertising it if quantities are so low. But it now sets an expectation of price that will keep many of us from buying until it falls to the false advertised level
The promotion was posted on other forums much earlier this morning, and it seems like some people indeed ordered E-M1.
I received this by mail directly from Olympus about 5-6 hours ago… I checked and they definitely had them in stock that time – pity that they won’t ship outside US…
I received the offer via email and it already had been posted on other m43 forums as well. From other forums, these cameras existed and sold quickly.
I received an e-mail from Olympus at 7:32am eastern. They were there at that time. Too bad I just took advantage of the lens bundle promo.
Using the code “president” you get a refurbished Em5 for only $511.99.
Those had to be all those demo models they used during the rollout. Wish I had caught the email earlier.
What does “reconditioned” mean?
If it means demo models like the ones I sometime see at Best Buy stores, where they get treatment I would not give a nail I was pounding into wood, I would not touch that was 10% on the dollar.
I’ve seen cameras with lenses off, mirror to the world and to curious fingers.
When something is made as part of a process, there are tolerances. I highly doubt that something subjected to abuse gets a huge amount of time spent on it to become “reconditioned” or refurbished.
No thanks.
No bonehead, reconditioned means a return was repaired to factory specs and resold. Google is your (only) friend.
http://www.ebay.com/gds/What-are-Factory-Reconditioned-products-/10000000000855972/g.html
Is bonehead really the best you can do?
And I’m very happy you believe that companies will spend an inordinate amount of resources checking for every possible thing that could have been done to a camera.
I’ll buy new, thanks.
You realise these come from Olympus with a warranty, right? You really are daft. Most of these are probably indistinguishable from “New.” Returns from the weekend warriors whose cat pictures at 12,000 ISO disappointed them, so they sent the camera back.
Perhaps it will be one of those, and perhaps not.
If I am spending a thousand dollars on a camera, why should I take chances? I’m not saving half the cost. I’m saving 10-20, or even 30 percent. This is not worth buying into potential trouble.
Also, I have read of cases in which products are returned by the manufacturer being repaired, and yet there are still problems. And say it’s a subtle problem, you gonna start taking pictures and shipping them to Olympus to prove you have a subtle shutter issue?
I bought them all and will resell them here in this kikkerlandje.
I’ll offer $1.50 for the black one. As long as its post free.
And how was this made known to people? I’m on the OLY distribution list, but nothing came out about this sale. Quite the deal for those that managed to get one!
My next-to-new EM1 is soon to be sold as a refurb. It would intermittently not save images when shutter button was depressed. Shutter would actuate, viewfinder image would go white instead of black (with faint vertical lines) and camera would restart with different aperture, shutter speed, and ISO settings but no image was saved to card. Turning camera off and back on fixed the problem about half the time.
Mailed the camera back to Oly’s authorized service center (seems like they’re no longer servicing equipment themselves, instead are contracting Precision Camera Repair in CT to perform their repair service).
To their credit Oly immediately mailed a refurbed replacement EM1.
Given that this problem is/was intermittent and took 4 months to surface you’d be out of luck in the case of purchasing a recon product direct from Oly. Not saying I wouldn’t do it, just something to keep in mind.
Wonder if you can get a Squaretrade or similar ADH warranty on recon/refurbs?