Someone is trying to make some extra money by selling the [shoplink 10708 ebay]first NEX-7 camera on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. I am curious to see how much people is willing to spend for that camera! My guess is that the final price will be around $2100 (almost double the official price!).
Some other news: You can download the full NEX-7 manual at http://richardrook.nl/nex-7/nex-7manual_eng.pdf (Thanks Richard). And the very first NEX-7 books are coming out in January/February. At Amazon Germany (Click here) and is written by Michael Nagel. And at Amazon US (Click here) a book written by David Busch.
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Well, the people bidding on the item are the ones bidding up the price. There does not seem to have been a reserve on the auction. Capitalism, I guess, works, especially in a consumption based society that.
Those darn Canadians !!
Well it has already hit $2100 with eighteen hours left so im guessing it will go for 3500 or so.
greedy bastards
Who the greedy bastards? Nothing wrong in giving someone what they want at the price they are willing to pay?
I think it is tongue and cheek mXim..
before anyone starts calling the bidders stupid lemmings, read this post please: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1042&thread=40087667
It’s a free world and open market. Oh well.
Haha. USA vs China. Communism vs Capitalism. All over a camera on eBay. The mind boggles!!!!
how did you involve USA and China in this? Strictly taken, China hasn’t been communism for years :S
Take the time to read all the posts and all the links. You may find the answer to your question 😉
Holy stupid Batman. I will laugh long and hard when Sony ramps up in Jan and the 7 will be flooding stores. That winner could have waited and bought a nice prime for the extra money….or a lot of beer.
If you buy that much beer you don’t need the Nex at all bcs everything will be fuzzy for months :).
But seriously: Matthew had a good point (smart thinking there!).
Prices of 5N have already dropped a lot (cheapest on eBay is 477 Euros). It is only fair that the moonshine makers benefit from this madness. 😉
The Nex-7 price in a few months will be …ta da da..$900.
I hope the prices drop, but at list people are still getting a heck of a camera with the NEX-7. Just like the NEX-5N is a great camera. I still remember then the Mazda Miata first came out in the U.S. People were paying over list price for that car as well. Capitalism. Competition drives prices downward (mostly), helps in the development of better and more reliable products(hopefully). And in times when a desirable product is scarce, it drives up the price of the product for people willing to buy the product and who have money to spend. I don’t quite get why people are pinging the person who put the camera for auction. I’m almost sure that some people who read this blog will do the same thing in a similiar situation. Then again, others will actually use the camera. Free will. Free market. This is the way it is supposed to work.
The NEX-5 is getting dumped everywhere. It is one heck of a bargain for 14mp sensor!
i’ve got an email today saying that the Zeiss 24/1.8 is available for shipping (i had pre-ordered) @ €817, shipping included 😀
That’s a good price !!!
I got mine for 839 € …
I sold mine in 15 minutes on EBay for $2200 buy it now price. For $1000 I’m willing to wait for a couple of months.
+1 William
would’ve done the same if i had it pre-ordered… hell, maybe i would’ve pre-ordered two of them 😛
This one’s up to $2385…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BRAND-NEW-BOX-SONY-NEX-7-1-STOCK-/160701319939?pt=Digital_Cameras&hash=item256a8b8b03#ht_1360wt_822
Total of 4 on eBay… all over $2G
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Digital-Cameras-/31388/i.html?_nkw=NEX-7&_trkparms=65%253A10%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1&rt=nc&_dmpt=Digital_Cameras&_sticky=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_sop=1&_sc=1
My local dealer pre-order on first day is expected mid January.
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The price going more than i expected, i think the price will reach the price of Sony a900 FF
what a crazy people. Hey photographers it’s only a camera so what will happen if the people wait the camera to be in stock. It’s not a very necessary item to pay for it alot of money.
Anyway im one of those who wait the nex7 but i will not be a crazy to pay more 2000$ for this camera. I have already the nex 5n & im very happy with it.
I have read the manual now and can’t believe that the AF/MF button only allows to switch between auto focus and manual but cannot be programmed to simply be a focus hold button. This camera is suppose to appeal to pros and amateurs but this clearly was a stupid oversight. Even the cheaper A65 has that function available and has been improved on the location of the button since the a55. Now we a have a more expensive camera with abilities to assign multi function on each button and a simple focus hold button is not available. Come on Sony!!!! fix with firmware please!
I don’t wish to disregard your concerns. I understand it’s unsettling to take certain features for granted only to find them disappear. I too use the AF/MF button a great deal.
Well, all I can say is that once I got used to Toggle mode, I never went back to Hold mode.
I only use shaft drive AF lenses from Alpha mount. With those, the Hold mode disengaged the clutch just like Toggle mode. Difference is that it needs to be pressed twice with Toggle for On/Off. Whereas Hold is simply hold with manual over-ride while holding.
I couldn’t speak for how it works with motorized or USM lenses.
Ebay auction ended at $3,245 with 37 bids. That is nearly enough to buy 3 of them.
This one sold for $3550.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BRAND-NEW-BOX-SONY-NEX-7-1-STOCK-/160701319939?pt=Digital_Cameras&hash=item256a8b8b03#ht_1497wt_725
Some people seem to have a lot more money than they do sense.
The seller was pretty smart though.
If I had managed to get a hold of a NEX-7 somehow, they’d be prying it from my cold dead arms instead. 😀 Would shoot shoot shoot this thing instead of pimping it on ebay. Then I guess everyone has a different ethos: I don’t hold the “easy come, easy go” approach to gear because most of what I have now was hard won and took months of scraping to buy.
Wow over 3000$, there must have been a hidden Leica logo somewhere on it. As for the reasons mentioned why someone should spend so much for it, Pro-Photographers are usually the people waiting the longest before upgrading bodies as long as there isn’t any critical need for upgrading. Then again if someone coming from Leica bought it 3000$ must have felt super cheap for that person.
I will receive 6 units of NEX-7 on wednesday!
Please post an ebay link. 😉
Everything is booked for Sony Forum!
Winning bid: US $3,245.00
crazy people…
I sold mine for only $2200 on Friday through Ebay. Ordered a new one by phone from Sony today and they confirmed that I would be getting a tracking number today.