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I took a quick look around but couldn't see anything matching this topic, basically if you have a really useful shopping website that you use or have stumbled across please share the goodness with the community.
(Also please don't use affiliate links or any business that your related to, it's not fair and pimping your own business on a site like the farms isn't a good idea in general).
First up SLRHut.
This one might only be useful for UK an EU Kiwi's, they sell Cameras and Camera equipment way below anything you can find locally, technically grey market but ships from the USA rather than Asia they have also branched out into general electronics like Phones an Tablets.
The only down side is any order over £150 you have to call and confirm with them, this is a bit of a upsell call offering you SD Cards and Batteries etc but it last's 30 seconds and isn't a hard sell and well worth it for the amount of money your saving, the customer service is top notch as well in the past I was shipped a bit of kit that died shortly after arrival they posted out a replacement to me next day.
I just bought a Fujifilm X100T with 3 day P&P (including customs charges) for £699 the closest I can find the same camera for on Amazon UK is £799 and it looks to be Grey Market from a relatively unknown seller.
Next up, Massdrop.
This is a group buying site, the more that buy the more the group saves. They cover a lot of interests but are geared towards Men but occasionally have stuff for women and are expanding the communities all the time (you don't have to be part of a community to join a drop).
I am only involved in the Men's Style, Writing and Ultralight camping ones at the moment but in the last few months I have picked up a few good bargains.
I will say they do get exclusives i.e. a commercial product with added extras or some version made exclusively for them (not branded to them either), and work on really narrow margins, a minor power level about how I know this they often sell the more expensive diamine inks, I live about 10 miles from diamine and sell some of there more specialist products myself, even in the volume I sell I'd be hard pushed to offer inks at that price, they seem after a guesstimate make only 3 - 4% profit of each transaction.
It's also completely community driven and open, if you have a intrest in a product type you can suggest a drop, and they also provide links directly to the products that didn't make it so you can buy your own if what is on offer doesn't take your fancy.
CWCville Shopping Mall. For all your electric hedgehog pokemon shopping needs.
Lomography, OK these guy's make film cameras some of them rather nice (mostly copys of old Soviet designs you can pick up originals for way less, and seemingly older Kodak cameras), but that's not what I use them for, If you still shoot Film there lab's are top notch for development and processing and scanning. They also offer a print service I have only used a few times but they also offer the prints in sizes you either can't do effectively at home or commonly in larger sizes from local commercial labs.
One word of warning, DON'T BUY FILM FROM THEM it's way over priced and their own branded stuff is just Ilford with a snazzy package, the only exception to this is for any of the instant cameras they are not my thing when it comes to film but they do have it in stock all the time and do sell old expired stock in bulk from time to time but when they have it on offer they sell out fast.
I have a bunch more I'll add to the list as I rember them but they are mostly really well designed, hard to find items or things built to last.
So what do you want to share?
(Also please don't use affiliate links or any business that your related to, it's not fair and pimping your own business on a site like the farms isn't a good idea in general).
First up SLRHut.
This one might only be useful for UK an EU Kiwi's, they sell Cameras and Camera equipment way below anything you can find locally, technically grey market but ships from the USA rather than Asia they have also branched out into general electronics like Phones an Tablets.
The only down side is any order over £150 you have to call and confirm with them, this is a bit of a upsell call offering you SD Cards and Batteries etc but it last's 30 seconds and isn't a hard sell and well worth it for the amount of money your saving, the customer service is top notch as well in the past I was shipped a bit of kit that died shortly after arrival they posted out a replacement to me next day.
I just bought a Fujifilm X100T with 3 day P&P (including customs charges) for £699 the closest I can find the same camera for on Amazon UK is £799 and it looks to be Grey Market from a relatively unknown seller.
Next up, Massdrop.
This is a group buying site, the more that buy the more the group saves. They cover a lot of interests but are geared towards Men but occasionally have stuff for women and are expanding the communities all the time (you don't have to be part of a community to join a drop).
I am only involved in the Men's Style, Writing and Ultralight camping ones at the moment but in the last few months I have picked up a few good bargains.
I will say they do get exclusives i.e. a commercial product with added extras or some version made exclusively for them (not branded to them either), and work on really narrow margins, a minor power level about how I know this they often sell the more expensive diamine inks, I live about 10 miles from diamine and sell some of there more specialist products myself, even in the volume I sell I'd be hard pushed to offer inks at that price, they seem after a guesstimate make only 3 - 4% profit of each transaction.
It's also completely community driven and open, if you have a intrest in a product type you can suggest a drop, and they also provide links directly to the products that didn't make it so you can buy your own if what is on offer doesn't take your fancy.
CWCville Shopping Mall. For all your electric hedgehog pokemon shopping needs.
Lomography, OK these guy's make film cameras some of them rather nice (mostly copys of old Soviet designs you can pick up originals for way less, and seemingly older Kodak cameras), but that's not what I use them for, If you still shoot Film there lab's are top notch for development and processing and scanning. They also offer a print service I have only used a few times but they also offer the prints in sizes you either can't do effectively at home or commonly in larger sizes from local commercial labs.
One word of warning, DON'T BUY FILM FROM THEM it's way over priced and their own branded stuff is just Ilford with a snazzy package, the only exception to this is for any of the instant cameras they are not my thing when it comes to film but they do have it in stock all the time and do sell old expired stock in bulk from time to time but when they have it on offer they sell out fast.
I have a bunch more I'll add to the list as I rember them but they are mostly really well designed, hard to find items or things built to last.
So what do you want to share?
