Nikon D50 pricing?

[ben]

Ok, I've been looking around the shops here and they have quite a lot of D50 with Lens Kits for sale.

I know you lot had been bashing on about getting one over the D40, so I'm pondering it.

Thing is, I'm not sure what price I should be offering, they start at about £300 (brand new) - I've been trying to get them down to £200, but stall at around £280 (quite a long way to go ... haha)

So what do we think?

 

[arc]

i paid £295 for mine off ebay with some extras

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280125858914

They are discontinued, so sourcing them will get increasingly difficult.

 

[Steven]

£200 might be tough. £280 seems a fair price to me.

 

[faster4_tec]

£200 would be tough, but I reckon a private camera shop that you talk nicely too, and pay cash with MIGHT be more interested in dropping the price a bit.

also instead of just trying to outright drop the price, maybe they could through in a good camera bag and a hoya UV filter, lense cleaning kit, screen proctetor etc.

then £280 would be more appealing.

either way, anything under £300 is acceptable for one of them
I'm moving more toward getting a new/new used pentax dSLR as i'm building a good collection of pentax bayonet lenses now :yum:

 

[Bob in disguise]

I paid £329 for mine from london camera exchange a few months ago and that was with the kit lense, spare battery and SD card.. .

£280 to 300 would be a pretty fair price for it now

Its hard not to notice the D40 now they do the cash back on it.. . Can pick them up for £270 now, which kinda tempted me! But i got old nikon AF lenses so i decided against it!

 

[ben]

Ok, so nothing amazing @ £300 then.

D80 Kits are £480 here and as the D50 is discontinued I reckon it's price should be lower (there are heaps of them here though ... dunno if that's a good or bad thing). They keep trying to make me buy a D70 (same price, £300) - but not sure if it's the kit.

 

[Steven]

That is a good price for a D70.