Originally posted by Dave L All markets are different and there's not a lot any of us can do about it really..
Yeah there's nothing anybody can do about it ! Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, nothing anybody could do about it ! Saddam Hussien invaded Kuwait, uh! what can you do about that ! Just accept it hey ! lo
Originally posted by robjmitchell The nikon stock in australia would have been shipped and priced before the bottom dropped out of the Aussie dollar.
Good point, but it is an assumption, based on stock being 12 months old, and I would assume stock could be imported every 3 months, but we're only speculating. But a D750 at $2297AUD translates to $1636USD ........seems like the Americans are getting ripped off to the tune of $360USD bucks !
For the K-1 the US pays $1796 + 10% GST = $1975USD, converted to $2771AUD and a street price of $2899 = Australia pays roughly $128AUD more than the US for the K-1 ........ Still getting ripped off ! No way I'd call that fair.
I'm sort of doubting a lot of this exchange rate stuff, from time to time it seems like it relates to price, and at other times it doesn't. Take for instance Ed at Photouniverse. He was happy as the USD rose in value and camera prices came down ........ So where does that leave this Nikon D750 price in the US. The Aussie dollar fell against every major currency, and yet the D750 is cheaper than in USD terms. Or is it that the D750 is such a popular camera, that Nikon feels it can just charge what ever it wants to US customers, and they just jump out of the water into the boat.
So its exchange rate versus (Answer = ripp-off). I still think answer = ripp-off.
Pluuuuuus Nikon has been continuously giving cashback offers on the D600, D610 and D750. The oil spray issue is well known on the D600 and D610, and perhaps the Nikon D750 is an orphan after that debacle. In the US, Nikon got sued and they had to fix the problem, here in Aus Nikon is still trying to off-load these SLOS (Single Lens Oil Squirter) to Aussie customers at huge discounts. Who's to know, it may be that Nikon is using Australia as a dumping ground for their defective products, I'm just speculating. Or Sony really kick some behind with the A7, and they all went into cashback mode, and they did do that a lot !
I think exchange rates play a small part in it, and the rest is demand, and competition from Sony stealing canikon thunder.
Originally posted by Matthew Saville IMO, the answer is simple: the K-1 hasn't even hit shelves yet, and the D750 has been out for what, over a year and a half?
The stock and pace of shelf-flying-off is a known situation for the D750, so that price has stabilized at whatever the market dictates.
The K-1 hasn't even begun selling yet, or shipping. So who knows, maybe it was so popular in AUS that immediate pre-orders were through the roof, or at least sufficient to consume an entire first shipment, in which case, they can get away with waiting 6-12 months before dropping the price further.
So, if you want a K-1 but are simply miffed by the fact that it currently costs more than a D750, ...wait six months?
No I'm ticked off because they initially priced the K-1 at $3188 inline with the Nikon D810 and Canon 5D mark3 price. Inspite of all the great features of the K-1, you can't put a camera with 33 AF points and low lens ecosystem against canikon. If it had 133 AF points and a full compliment of superb pro-grade telephotos for sport and wildlife, then yeah, charge what ever you want like canikon. But Sony is just simply gonna under-cut everybodies prices with theA7 range IMO.