C300 Why so long to give it a street price?

[Syeed Ali]

Originally Posted by Don Miller

$15K ish US price sounds more reasonable. There's no VAT in the £9995 as a commercial price, right?

It's £9,995 plus 20% vat

Only found out the price yesterday as I thought it was around £15,000 plus vat.

[Brian Drysdale]

Originally Posted by Don Miller

$15K ish US price sounds more reasonable. There's no VAT in the £9995 as a commercial price, right?

If you're registered for VAT you can claim this back. So you'd pay the 20% VAT when purchasing and then claim it back when making your next VAT return (which is commonly every 3 months). The £9,995 excludes the VAT.

[Steve Benjamin]

Ordered mine today, can't wait now!!

[Menno Mennes]

Originally Posted by Alister Chapman

At the Visual Impact C300 open house in Teddington, UK, today I was given the price of £9995 by the dealer, available 3rd quarter of January.

In Holland you can order the Canon C300 for:
Euro 12,000
GBP 8,269
US dollars 15,000
All prices are exc.VAT

nivo-schweitzer.nl

Best wishes and a nice weekend,

Menno Mennes
info@hollandheritage.tv
Holland Heritage

[Jim Michael]

There appears to be some disparity between the actual pricing ratio and exchange rate. For instance, take the ratio of the price of a USA 305 to a UK 305 and multiply by the UK price of a C300 and you come up with ca. 11,100. That would put it at a point that is competitive with both F3 and Scarlet in the USA market.

NB: I believe I used Jacobs and B&H for comparison, and I'm not familiar with UK vendors so I may have chosen an invalid one for comparison.

[Brian Drysdale]

UK dealers would tend to be more expensive than US dealers, but not all of manufacturer's products in match up to each other in relative terms when comparing because some attract a premium in local markets. Jacobs price for a XF 305 camera is a few hundred pounds higher higher than Visual impact's after the VAT is added to their price, so the prices do vary quite a bit between dealers.

The C300 price quoted at Visual Impact is slightly less than their current F3 price, so I imagine the US price should be around the F3 price. I read the 12k Euro price quoted above at the time of the European launch, so that seems to be falling into place.

[Nigel Barker]

Originally Posted by Menno Mennes

In Holland you can order the Canon C300 for:
Euro 12,000
GBP 8,269
US dollars 15,000
All prices are exc.VAT

If only...:-) 12K Euros at current exchange rates is over £10000. It's also around $16000.

[Sean Seah]

when is it shipping in the US? Vincent L is coming to Singapore in Jan 12 to promote the C300

[Jim Martin]

Shipping is scheduled for the 3rd or 4th week of January....also, I got word yesterday that the MAP/street pricing for the US should be released the 1st week of January....as soon as it is, I'll post it.....really....I promise......

Jim Martin
Filmtools.com

[Colin McAuliffe]

How about a hint jim?

[Chris Hurd]

Here's a hint: it will be *less than $20,000*

Heh. Sorry.

[Jim Martin]

Originally Posted by Colin McAuliffe

How about a hint jim?

$5000.00 ..........................no, just kidding. I could guess, but, this being the internet, it will become fact, then my friends at Canon will no longer be my friends.

Jim Martin
Filmtools.com

[Thierry Humeau]

CVP in the UK, just lowered the price to $15,591. They are now taking orders for a fully refundable deposit of $600. So, looks like it's coming down indeed...

Thierry.

[Daniel Weber]

Are you going to pull the trigger on one of these Thierry? Looks like a good camera. I played with one at GV Expo and really liked how it felt in my hands.

Daniel Weber

[Thierry Humeau]

I was at Gov Expo too and really liked it (hint...). If the actual sale price is indeed around the 15K mark, it will be quite successful. And I like the 1Dx very much too...

Cheers,