UPDATE: As of noon October 3rd, Amazon.com was added to the Canon rebate official retailers list. Someone’s listening to us 🙂
Another update to the Canon mail-in rebate saga: although the rebate form suggests all authorized dealers are eligible, the official list of participating retailers was published and one popular retailer — Amazon — is not on the list.
We’re surprised to see Amazon is missing from the participating retailers list (thanks goes to CPW reader Brian who noticed this). However, Amazon is still advertising the rebate as available. We tried to pre-submit a rebate claim and were unable to select Amazon as the retailer.
The latest update regarding Best Buy is: they’re still on the list (as “BEST BUY COMPANY INC”). We’ve asked Canon’s rebate hotline to clarify several times, and each time we’re told that any retailer on the list is eligible for the rebate. At this time we think they’ll be eligible for the instant rebate (but of course, we cannot be certain). Because of the double-dip, this is probably the best current deal out of all the stores.
Other retailers we checked were B&H, Adorama, or BuyDig. They’re all on the list (BuyDig is well disguised “BEACH TRADING CO INC”). All three stores are offering a 4% reward. BuyDig‘s reward is instantly applied during checkout. Adorama is also offering a free UV filter kit for all lenses, and occasionally a free tripod or memory card.
You can check out our list of mail-in and instant rebated items and their current prices.
Nice, hopefully it all works out for me and my new 24-70II from Best Buy
Got it tnks
great products but out to lunch in terms of service
Took delivery today of a new 24-70 2.8 II from Best Buy. Looks like this was a great deal after all!
Thank You Brian!!!!!!!!!!!!
I talked to Canon Rebates rep. today and she said Canon would honor my purchase from Best Buy.
Has anyone received their lens and tried submitting a rebate at the rebate pre-submission form with their serial number (promotion id is 819101650)? We’re hearing that no rebate submissions are working (regardless of retailer) — just wanted to hear from others. Let us know if it was successful or not, and which retailer you bought from. https://www.acbpromotions.com/canonrebates/submit.asp
Best Buy presubmission worked for me on Sept 30th. I called Best Buy and the rep said instant rebate was applied and mail-in wouldn’t work. I said no rebate was mentioned during check-out process, only said that price is shown during checkout. She referred my case to another dept and am waiting to hear back.
Okay. Canon Rebate hotline has been telling people Best Buy is okay for rebate. Canon is the one paying it out in the end. Let me know how your inquiry with Best Buy goes.