Bakit sobrang mahal ng Canon products dito?

[mbt]

thinking of picking up a Canon 350D and 17-85 mm EF-S lens, pero parang sobrang mahal ng canon stuff dito? i'm not too comfortable buying from quiapo and gray-market dealers. from the official canon.ph website:

Canon PowerShot A95: P27,500
Canon PowerShot S60: P34,500
Canon PowerShot S70: P41,950
Canon PowerShot G6: P47,500
Canon PowerShot Pro1: P59,950
Canon EOS-350D with bundled 18-55 mm EF-S lens: not quoted in the site, but last time i asked in the canon showroom in megamall, it was around P68,000 if i remember right (the 17-85mm EF-S lens isn't even available here yet)

in the US, the prices from a major retail store (hence, hardly any discounts), Best Buy, are as follows:

Canon PowerShot A95: US$300 -> P16,800 [difference of P10,700]
Canon PowerShot S60: US$400 -> P22,400 [difference of P12,100]
Canon PowerShot S70: US$450 -> P25,200 [difference of P16,750]
Canon PowerShot Pro1: US$800 -> P44,800 [difference of P15,150]
Canon EOS-350D with 18-55 kit lens: US$1,000 -> P56,000

and in Hong Kong, based on the official Canon.hk site (no discounts too):

Canon PowerShot A95: HK$2,780 -> P20,016 [difference of P7,484]
Canon PowerShot S70: HK$4,280 -> P30,816 [difference of P11,134]
Canon PowerShot Pro1: HK$6,980 -> P50,256 [difference of P9,694]
Canon EOS-350D with 18-55 kit lens: HK$7,680 -> P55,296

mas okay bang bumili sa Hong Kong? if so, is there an international warranty (that Canon Philippines will honor) available?

[glntVR]

sir mbt mahal talaga pag diyan ka sa mismong canon titingin. Laki ng tubo. Bakit ayaw mo sa quiapo? okay naman dun bumili. My dad got his camera doon. Pwede tumawad kaya maganda. Chinese din ata yung mga may-ari ng shop dun.

[chain]

Hidalgo ok dun bumili. kumpleto ng gamit.

[mbt]

buo ba yung warranty (as in Canon warranty, not store warranty) sa quiapo? and madali mag return/exchange?

punta kasi akong HK end of the month e hehe...

[BlueBimmer]

chicken feed lang yan hehehe

[hens]

buo ba yung warranty (as in Canon warranty, not store warranty) sa quiapo? and madali mag return/exchange?

punta kasi akong HK end of the month e hehe...

Marvs, tama si BB..tawagan mo muna si Andy aka ACT111..baka mas mura sa kanya at siguradong may warranty..(may libreng test drive pa yata sa SC bimmer niya)..tanong mo kay M2...

[glntVR]

punta ka pala hk. dun na lang. :D hindi ko kasi alam kung ano yung warranty.

[theveed]

never get from canon, yung battery lang nila costs 2x as much as they do in HK. I bought replacement batteries instead, higher amperage, half the cost.

[ranod55]

marahil sir sa name of the brand,pero kung ako tatanungin mas-maganda ang performance ng Nikon kung ikukumpara mo sa Cannon,although cannon din ang camera ko.kasi here in middle east eh kapag kinu-kumpara ko ang presyo ang dalawa eh talagang mas-mahal ang Nikon,kahit anong unit mapa digital,web cam,lahat ng klase ng camera eh well ahead ang Nikon.yung lang sir...

[theveed]

As always, dont base performance on brand alone. There are a lot of models under each brand name, and some are better than the others. To assume that just because the high end of one brand is better than the high end of another automatically trickles down to everything else will make you nothing more than a brand zealot.

[mbt]

i think i've made up my mind to go with Canon with its 350D over Nikon's D70/D70s hehe... lighter and significantly more compact (a big plus for me), light high-quality lenses are available and are cheaper (parang puro six digits yung presyo ng nikon lenses hehehe... ang bibigat pa), the lens selection is wider, it looks like it has less noise at high ISO (which is a big reason to go dSLR in the first place), and people say that local canon aftersales is better than nikon.

although.... D70 is more comfortable to hold, is cheaper, and i have a 60 mm/2.8 Micro Nikkor i'd be able to use, and mukhang mas reliable with less reports of failures (although it could also be because Canon sells so much more cameras than nikon)... hmmm......... still, i think i'll go with canon hehe

saan ba okay bumili sa HK, o kaya dito? maraming manloloko sa HK e hehehe... pati rin dito :D

[stinkaboy]

OT: badtrip lg ako sa canon kasi hangang ngayon yung pina repair ko na IXUS 400 until now hindi pa ren naayos to think last december pa yun.

[EL Chicane]

May sense bang bumili ng Canon PowerShot Pro na 8-Megapixels? Yung pambili ko ng Fortuner wawaldasin ko na at balak kong bumili nitong PowerShot Pro. Sabi nila overkill daw yung 8-Megapixels? Nag-mura na pala ngayon? Yung huling tingin ko eh P70k+ ang price. Ngayon eh P50k+ na lang???

[boybi]

Yung pambili ko ng Fortuner wawaldasin ko na...

hehe, kung kelangan mo ng tulong, andito lang ako ;)

[Yoda]

OT: badtrip lg ako sa canon kasi hangang ngayon yung pina repair ko na IXUS 400 until now hindi pa ren naayos to think last december pa yun.

Speaking of which...

Pre, san ba service center ng Canon dito? San yang pinag-pagawan mo? Wala akong makita sa directory e. I have a multifunction printer na gusto kong ipa-repair, sayang naman. TIA.

[IceColdBeer]

Better buy it here in HK. Alam ko may international warranty mga yan. Kung yung price nakuha mo sa site mismo ng Canon, sigurado ko mas mura mo makukuha yan dyan sa mga shops sa Mong Kok.

[mbt]

ICB,

ay sus taga HK ka pala hehe mga gano kalaki yung difference ng street price sa manufacturer's suggested price (yung merong Canon warranty at madaling kausapin)?

[IceColdBeer]

ICB,

ay sus taga HK ka pala hehe mga gano kalaki yung difference ng street price sa manufacturer's suggested price (yung merong Canon warranty at madaling kausapin)?

Check ko then post ko price dito hehe.

[bad driver]

hmmmm.... my uncle bought a toshiba tecra laptop for 90 k sa Hongkong.... dito, it's sold for around 160 k daw....

kahit dagdag mo pamasahe at hotel papuntang HK, may sukli ka pang pambili ng camera.hehe. seryoso. It's also extremely easy to get from place to place cause of the subways.

Dun ka sa Golden computer palace.

[mbt]

EL Chicane,

mas maganda yung Olympus C-8080WZ kesa Canon Pro1 hehe. hindi lang naman 8 MP binibili mo diyan, yung lenses ng Pro1 at 8080 professional quality na, plus, maraming ibang "pro" features hehe (full manual controls, larger max apertures, etc.). so yes, may use naman itong niche na ito hehe.