Where to purchase?

[Tonym]

Can anyone suggest a good place in Australia to purchase a Sigma 50-500 lens for Canon 50D. I dont particularly want to buy from OS.

[ricktas]

what are you looking for, cheapest price, after sales service, online store, or bricks and mortar store?

[Tonym]

probably the cheapest price. I dont mind buying online as there are no real bricks and mortar stores in my area except for Harvey and Bing.I am also after the OS model. there has been a couple of used ones for sale but they are not the stabilized model.

[ricktas]

www.shopbot.com.au and search, it will give you a range of online stores and prices

[Tonym]

probably the cheapest price, I dont mind buying online and the only stores near me are Harvey and Bing Lee. I have seen a couple of these lenses for sale second hand but they were not the stabilized model and as this lens is for the mrs I would like a stabilizer model

[ZedEx]

With Sigma, find an online price, and then contact them on their Australian distributors website www.crkennedy.com.au
Often, they will arrange a price match. All Australian stock etc. I hope I am not in breach of site rules for bringing this up, this is not to take away from the site sponsors. CR themselves aren't a store, they're a supplier and don't usually deal direct to the public.

[Zac]

I don't know that CRK will sell directly to the public, I think they will supply the pricematch lens via a local retailer...

[ricktas]

I don't know that CRK will sell directly to the public, I think they will supply the pricematch lens via a local retailer...

Yep, but you need to first contact CRK and prove the price point you have found, they will then put you in contact with a local retailer to go to and get it at their 'new' price, from my understanding. That is how it worked for me anyway.

[macmich]

i just ordered a 120 to 400 of them i phoned them they checked the price on the net and took my credit card details and hopefully have it tommorow
cheers macca

[Tonym]

I just spoke to CRK and they said go to a local retailer and take the web link to the lens I want to buy, they will then notify CRK who will check the price and then send a lens to the retailer at the web price. I phoned the retailer and he just laughed so I wont be buying of him at his inflated price. Looks like DWI for me.

[DigitalRev]

Sigma EX 50-500mm f/4-6.3 APO DG at AU$1,259.98 + Shipping - Sigma EX 50-500mm f/4-6.3 APO DG (http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-4095091-10823989?url=digitalrev.com/en/sigma-50-500mm-f4-6-dot-3-ex-apo-rf-hsm-3722.html?search_string=Sigma%2B50-500&category_id=0)

[Tonym]

Thankyou Digital Rev this is the non OS lens though, I am after the 50-500 APO DG OS HSM model. I looked on your site and could not find it.

[DigitalRev]

Thankyou Digital Rev this is the non OS lens though, I am after the 50-500 APO DG OS HSM model. I looked on your site and could not find it.

We only have the 150-500 OS lens for now. Sorry couldn't help.

[macmich]

following up on mine the reason they done my on phone is because we have no country suppliers near us
i suppose if we lived in city area we would have to do it thru a retailer
cheers macca

[Tonym]

Has anyone bought from CameraPro in Brisbane? They seem to have a good price on the lens Im after.