The A99 price if slowly dropping in germany too. Lately the price was floating at around 2600 Euro and now it dropped down to 2400 in Germany at Photo Preim. It’s even lower if you buy it at [shoplink 18534 ebay]eBay UK (a little bit above 2100 Euro)[/shoplink].
UPDATE: You get the battery for grip with the A99 at Wexphotographic UK (Click here).
Thanks Alexander for finding the deal!
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Meanwhile, in the Czech Republic (Germany’s neighbor) today’s price at the cheapest store is 72,490 Czk ($3,593.49 USD). Dear Sony – get your European prices in order! It’s cheaper for me to buy a roundtrip flight to New York, buy the same camera, and spend a few days on vacation in the city than buying it locally. Pathetic.
It’s the same story over and over again with all electronics. You can not compare US prizes to european.
We can not? I beg to differ. We can and we should! The prices will not reach parity with US until enough people speak up and/or refuse to pay premium for nothing.
One thing that I am always curious about is what they do with all the unsold units in the EU? I do know that some get dumped at 1/3rd the original price. I bought an A390 for such a price. The new flash prices have come down from a very unrealistic figure (I guess no one bought it for that atrocious price).
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Why? If you can buy something from the USA then price comparisons are obviously valid. If you think that people in the USA always pay sales tax, they don’t!
It’s only valid if you don’t care about the loss of warranty. And on that subject, there’s a least a year difference to begin with.
Of course you can not directly compare US and EU prices. But you can make such comparision with Canon, Nikon and Sony cameras. Even when you try to compare A99 to D800 (and it should be to D600) then it looks Sony is overpriced. In USA A99 almost keeps initial price but Sony USA gives you grip and flash now(again silly overpriced, even in USA) that cuts almost 1/3 of its price.
Something is terribly wrong with A99 EU prices I am sure they will be left with so many not sold PAL units that sooner or later one will be able to buy it for the half of current price.
You still won’t be able to pay for it, admit it. I will buy one.
I would still consider a99 only if my a77 broke down… Even at this price. I had a99 rented for couple of days and tried hard to convince myslef to switch but didn’t succeed 🙁
Canon and Nikon are running cash-backs in the UK so you’re looking at about £1300 for a D600 and £1400 for a 6d. Whilst the grip offer is something (let’s be frank though grips cost little to make) The A99’s price is way out of whack in Europe. There is no reason why the A99 should be any more expensive than it’s rivals. At £1300 odd it might sell ok, at £2000 it’s a dead duck.
Sony are missing the FF boat entirely here.
Canon 6D autofocus sucks and it drains batteries in 3 days. Nikon 600D video sucks and it is ancient like no GPS, IS and metering and ISO are off.
sony a99 the biggest fail of XXI ever.. after the lunar ofc
The pricing for A99 is terrible everybody can agree on that… I paid the original price in US and seeing the price drop makes me mad as hell. The good news is that the camera itself is a wonder to use and I’m looking to buy another one as a backup since the prices are going down this quick.
Sony will be unloading A99 to make room for new products release by next year, My best guess price are going to falling down @ $1999.95 for those of you have eyes on A99 just hang tight… 🙂
These are simply expected pricing developments as with any other product.