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The A77 is more and more difficult to find in Stock and the price is rising. But I just found four manufacturer refurbished A77 bodies in Stock for 150£ (120Euro) less than the original price! They are sold by [shoplink 10266 ebay]cameracenter UK on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. Guess what? i bet they will be sold out within minutes! So hurry!
For comparison: The price at Jessops (Click here) is 1149£. The price is even higher at Amazon.de (Click here), Amazon.fr (Click here) and Amazon.it (Click here).
One more refurbished deal. The Sony A900 is in Stock for 1699£ only again at [shoplink 10270 ebay]cameracenter on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. You save 300£ (or 400 Euro) on the original price!
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You got the conversion rate wrong, 150 pounds is about 175 euros.
NO I didn’t convert it. I compared it to the REAL A77 price in Germany!
The danish shop and online shop Kamerahuset, sells the A77 body for what would be around 933 GBP. But unfortunately they don’t sell outside Denmark.
http://www.kamerahuset.dk/product/sony-alpha-77-hus-slta77v-cee5/
It’s still way too expensive. In Malaysia it’s only about USD 1200 for Body only. Not sure now still got stock or not tho.
haha how does something a month old get a refubished tag even if it is second hand.
what does “refurbished” actually mean anyway ?
I get the impression it just means that it was returned,
so either its just a customer who’s changed his mind – or theres something wrong with it.
it was blow dried. flood salvage.
Wikipedia:
“Refurbished products could possibly be the products which are returned by the customer within the return policy of the company which sold the product, without any defect with the product. Refurbished products are generally bench tested and certified by the authorized service centers of the company and then re-packaged, labeled as a Refurbished Product.”
They could have been bought with original firmware and returned due to the bugs so the refurbishing could just mean it has updated the firmware to 1.03 which fixes many of the issues early purchasers had. People that don’t hang out on this website might not even know new firmware existed or think updating will be complicated.
I bought mine from the Sony store for 980 pounds! ive put a deposit on the NEX 7… cant wait!
The A77 is not even fully available everywhere and already there are refurbished deals? What does that say about that cam?!
It says that there’s not enough cams to go around the globe due to floods. And early buyers have already used it.. and are probably brand jumpers.
It says nothing at all. You find refurbished iPhones etc right after the launch too.
They’ll be the cameras sent back due to the 1.03 firmware issue. They will not be allowed to sell them as “new”. The price is high though, UK Sony Centres were selling them cheaper when first released.
Some old timers used to OVF, just haven’t yet warmed-up to the EVF
Just my guess why some a77 would be returned so quickly.
That, or they may have decided to wait after hearing of the FF models.
Andrea – this is the same place that was mentioned in a previous post (on SAR) of refurbished Sony gear and that story http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sony-refurbished-camera-and-lenses/ contained a link to negative seller reviews…
At this point, that’s the way I feel as its already 13 December. Decided to buy CZ primes to hold be over while taking advantage of the time line to pay em’ off. Got the ‘King Carl’ 135 sitting pretty right here on my desk as I type. Man is it ever a fine looking piece of glass!
I can see how they are refurbished, I would bet that many were returned due to the FW issue, I did send mine back but I had problems with it not powering on..
May have been a FW issue don’t know…
They rushed this camera to market and this is the results !!
I wouldn’t call a couple of years as “rushed”. 😀
Don’t forget what Japan has been through, so mistakes can happen.