JBHifi offered a "floor stock" one to me the other week for $615 so this is pretty good!
The pocket-sized DSC-RX100 is the world's first¹ 1.0 type CMOS sensor (13.2 x 8.8mm) with a resolution of 20.2 effective megapixels and F1.8 Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 3.6x optical zoom lens. It's the key to beautiful, detail-packed images and Full HD movie clips with very low noise.
…WHERE THE HELL WAS THIS DEAL 1 MONTH AGO.
I would seriously have considered it since the x100s stock was so stupidly hard to get.
I was just about to buy this from Eglobal, price would be around $530, has anyone purchased from them before? are they reliable?
JR duty-free in Brisbane are doing it for $500. The deal was posted two weeks ago. So, not a bargain. This is not the duty-free price.
Not every city has JR duty-free store though.
It's not hard to get a price-match ;-) It's too easy to get Harvey Norman to match them - trust me.
I have been into JR Duty Free in Melbourne twice in the last week or so and they have scoffed at me about the 500 price saying that it was a once in a lifetime and will never happen again, do Brisbane really have this still going, should i argue with the Melb store?
This is a brilliant point and shoot camera for the price that also has very high quality video recording capabilities. But $610 doesn't seem like a great deal. If you don't mind grey-market then DWI has them for $554 delivered: http://www.dwidigitalcameras.com.au/astore/Sony-Cybershot-DS…
I've bought cameras from DWI and never had any issues. Not sure if HN would price match DWI though?
Oh, and for anyone interested here's a sample of video recorded purely on the RX100:
http://youtu.be/qBUOiQJy7oo?t=8s
Wow, amazing video with great music.
HN Won't price match grey market, because they are selling local warranty and stock.
This is non grey market, which some people prefer.
Local warranty is worth the $50 more (to me).
Plus Sony will match this price if you want to get it from a Sony store and get their free advise etc :P
Will anyone do the duty free version of this price?
True, when buying grey-market you really have to weigh up the cost of either local repair or the hassles and time of getting your grey-market warranty honoured by sending your goods back to asia, against the local retail price.
In this case the extra $56 in savings may not be worth it considering a faulty grey-market camera would easily set you back at least $100 to get repaired locally if time is of the essence and the potential hassles of getting it fixed under the 1-year grey-market warranty are not worth it to you.
I'm lucky as I have never had any issues with grey-market items and the cost savings in the long run would far outweigh any possible future expenditure should faults arise.
I saw a note on a blog yesterday that this has come down in price in Europe, suspecting it might come down elsewhere too