FLAMING HOT, Canon i850S for $75 in Sams club...

[thiaka]

I missed out on the last piece in my area, will be checking out the other store in a while... the display model was still available though.. hopefully I'll get one..

looks like they're closing out on this item.

well.. it is a printer.. and it was selling for $118 couple of days ago. it is listed for $135 in Amazon.com

 

[LoverBoyJ]

this would be HOT if you can find one. This normally runs $120-$150 in retail stores.

I'm looking for the i950 though.

 

[pelikan]

I got one last week. It prints pics so well that I can't tell that they are from a printer. Black text is almost perfect as well. I have not had a good printer in years. I can hardly believe how good they are now.

 

[ItTheCow]

Wow! Great printer. I wonder if I can still get another price adjustment.

 

[thiaka]

I got it and have it installed.. the pictures are soooooooo great...
I'm glad I stopped by Sams Club y'day... I was prepared to buy it for $118... got lucky..

 

[tigerbait]

do you have a SKU?

 

[markish]

Thanks. Nice find.
Only if I can find one near my place...

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: LoverBoyJ
this would be HOT if you can find one. This normally runs $120-$150 in retail stores.

I'm looking for the i950 though.

Do you know the differences between the 850 and 950?

 

[SKORPI0]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Do you know the differences between the 850 and 950?

i850- 4 ink tanks - Review
i950 - 6 ink tanks - photo cyan, photo magenta. Review

Looks like a very tempting deal, but if I had the money I'd go for the i950. I'll have to check my local Sam's Club.

 

[thiaka]

467359 CANON I850S.

 

[SKORPI0]

Thanks for the item#, called and they have 8 in stock.

 

[Antoneo]

Are there any Sams Clubs on the East Coast?

 

[Estebann]

I just checked a few local (Cincinnati, OH) Sams Clubs, and none had the marked down price. So maybe the deal is not nation wide.

 

[SKORPI0]

Check my local Sam's. Still marked and scanned at $118.63. Could be a local price at the moment. Hopefuly price will be nationwide soon. :frown:

 

[thatsright]

Not to crap on this thread or anything, But I think I'll wait a bit longer. Still though, if you have a printer that?s like two or three years old, this is a KILLA deal. Right now I have a Canon S800 that I bought in Jan2002 @ BB for $300. It only does 2400X1200dpi, so I?m waiting until they have higher/better print resolutions than 4800Dpi. Dunno how long that will take, but its hard to justify getting a new printer since this one isn't even 18 months old yet. And since I might print like 5 or 10 Photo quality prints per year, its just better to wait instead of getting the i850. But I seriously gave it some thought once I saw it advertised at $129 locally.

BTW, it does seem true that the more you spend on a printer, the less you shell out in the long run for cartridges. All 6 of my original Inkjet Cartridges for this Canon S800 lasted about 15 months. Now that?s a quality printer. Also, hopefully the next gen. of printers will be USB 2.0 compatible. or hell, even Firewire. I'll finally have a reason to use one of my Firewire ports.

And that?s my $0.02

 

[trikster2]

Originally posted by: thatsright
Not to crap on this thread or anything, But I think I'll wait a bit longer. Also, hopefully the next gen. of printers will be USB 2.0 compatible. or hell, even Firewire. I'll finally have a reason to use one of my Firewire ports.

And that?s my $0.02

UH.

This generation (the i850) has hi speed USB 2.0.

But heck if you are just printing 8 photo's a year you could wait 1000 hours for each photo and still be done on time. So you don't need USB 2.0, and you don't need the 2 pico liter drops and you don't need the awesome photolab quaility edge to edge prints.

 

[SuepaFly]

Hey, which Sam's Club location did you get your Canon printer at? Apparently if you know the location, they will match it at different locations.

 

[thiaka]

I checked first at South Dayton, OH location first... they had only the display model left there...
got mine at North Dayton, OH.. they still had 2 of them left as of friday morning.

 

[aldamon]

The Sam's Club in Cary, NC sucks. Every time I go there looking for an AT Hot Deal item, they don't have it.

 

[BUSTaMOD]

Originally posted by: Antoneo
Are there any Sams Clubs on the East Coast?

Yes.

 

[STiSev]

Damn, this sucks.

I'm in the Bay Areaand there's no Sams Clubs here.

I was thinking about purcashing this item, too. Damn. This is almost half the price.

Anyone want to help a fellow Anandtecher out by buying one and shipping it out to me?

 

[STiSev]

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[harsh]

Ok I figured out the pricing difference from store to store. The first Sams club I went to in my area had one for $71, but it had none of the accessories (power cable, USB cable, paperwork, ect). I went to the other Sams and they had one with all of the stuff, minus the box, for $100. I have to assume that the guys that are reporting the $118 is new in box, where as mine was the flooor model and the last one they had. All-in-all still a very good deal on a great printer.

 

[harsh]

STiSev...enable your private messaging and profile so we can try and work out a deal to get you a printer. PM me if/when you do.

 

[STiSev]

YGM, harsh.