Free Accessory Bundles
Jun 18, 2017 01:39:29 #
reader
Loc: Los Angeles
When purchasing from Adorama or B&H, etc., Is there any reason to choose the Lens alone over the Lens sold with a "Free Accessory Bundle"?
Jun 18, 2017 06:15:51 #
if no difference in price, take the free accessory bundle. some things you will use others stuff goes into the circular file
Jun 19, 2017 06:30:16 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
reader wrote:
When purchasing from Adorama or B&H, etc., Is there any reason to choose the Lens alone over the Lens sold with a "Free Accessory Bundle"?
If they are the same price, I would always go with the bundle. And, I also look at B&H and try to buy when they offer a % back. On my recent Nikon D500 with 16-80 deal I got 4% back. B&H just sent me a $98.00 voucher that I can use on a future GAS attack. Yes, watch out for all the free stuff they will include, if it is the same price, jump all over that sucker.
Jun 19, 2017 07:05:06 #
reader wrote:
When purchasing from Adorama or B&H, etc., Is there any reason to choose the Lens alone over the Lens sold with a "Free Accessory Bundle"?
Yes. The bundle will use up storage space, and then you'll have to throw it away some day. If you want the items in that bundle, do some research and buy quality.
Jun 19, 2017 07:55:18 #
Check the price at other vendors when you see "free" items included in a package. A few years ago, I bought a Nikon zoom from B&H in a package that included two free filters. A few days later, on the day that UPS delivered the carton to me, the B&H website listed the lens for $100 less, but without the "free" extras. I called B&H and asked for a $100 refund because the price had dropped before the lens was delivered to me. After asking the buyer, the B&H customer service rep agreed to give me the lower price but charged me for the two "free" items. I asked why I was being charged for items that were listed as "free", but B&H wouldn't budge. The costs of the two filters had been built into the price that I paid.
Jun 19, 2017 09:00:57 #
reader wrote:
When purchasing from Adorama or B&H, etc., Is there any reason to choose the Lens alone over the Lens sold with a "Free Accessory Bundle"?
I just bought the 35 & 85 Prime bundle from Adorama ... the actual lens are packaged together by Nikon, the extras by Adorama ... I used the cheap filters that came with the bundle. If I was a professional I probably wouldn't have chosen the "bundle" from Adorama, opting instead for a better and more costlier filter instead. Of the cleaning kit, all I will probably use is the brush. So, to answer your question, if you can use the "stuff" in the bundle get it, if not why bother.
Jun 19, 2017 11:48:58 #
reader wrote:
When purchasing from Adorama or B&H, etc., Is there any reason to choose the Lens alone over the Lens sold with a "Free Accessory Bundle"?
I avoid the bundles. As user NJLen related, most of the time they aren't "free", but built in to the price you are paying. In addition, they are almost always the lowest quality examples of the items in question -- often not worth the frustration of trying to use. I am intimately familiar with one of the larger NY area camera dealers push to unload otherwise unsellable inventory by doing "free bundles". (Not B&H, by the way.)
Unless you are trying to stock a garage sale junk bin, leave the bundles be. Pick what you want to buy and buy the quality you can afford.
Jun 19, 2017 12:07:14 #
If there's something you'll use in the free bundle and it's the same price, get the bundle. Donate the stuff you already have or won't use.
Jun 19, 2017 12:24:43 #
jmvaugh wrote:
If there's something you'll use in the free bundle and it's the same price, get the bundle. Donate the stuff you already have or won't use.
This is what I have done. Mostly, the bundles contain junk, but rocket blowers and cleaning cloths can sometimes come in handy. I would only do it if the price were the same. The filters are usually low quality, the batteries not from the camera manufacturer (though on Sony point and shoots, the bundled chargers and extra batteries can be very useful. In short, it depends. I am taking a bunch of the bundled stuff to Goodwill today.
Jun 19, 2017 19:11:29 #
amfoto1
Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA
reader wrote:
When purchasing from Adorama or B&H, etc., Is there any reason to choose the Lens alone over the Lens sold with a "Free Accessory Bundle"?
It completely depends upon what's in the bundle...
When a lens I was buying came with a free 77mm B+W Kaesemann C-Pol filter, you can bet I took it! And when my old inkjet printer was dying and a camera body I was gonna buy anyway was offered with a free one... of course I bought it! Same with a free external drive, decent quality extra memory cards, free spare batteries. All useful stuff.
But when it's junk such as cheap, uncoated filters, flimsy tripods, free packs of "lens cleaning tissues" and other stoopid stuff... I'll pass.
Jun 19, 2017 22:29:08 #
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