{"id":1450,"date":"2011-03-04T00:13:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T00:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2011-03-04T00:14:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T00:14:13","slug":"b-stock-aka-refurbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"B-Stock (aka refurbs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tis the time of year, where the mind goes off on one.  So excuse me as i&#8217;m pondering once more.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back at last years Focus posts and prices, it seems I missed the rather large elephant waving to me in the room (well not so much room, it was a large hall at the NEC).<\/p>\n<p>So what did said large trunk wielding beast wave at me?  Not too sure about the elephant, but the price tag on Jacobs stand read&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/blogpics\/b-grade.jpg\" alt=\"Quite Poor Image - iPhone!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those not used to looking at iPhone high quality imagery it reads &#8220;B-Stock&#8221; &#8220;Eos 5D MkII Show Price \u00a31399&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s \u00a3300 cheaper than the ticket price.  Now, I&#8217;m fairly sure the new kit will retail around \u00a31,550 (assuming the discounts last year are roughly the same), so hoping B-Stock maintains the same price differential I could end up with the camera costing around \u00a31,250 + \u00a3200 grip \u00a350 spare battery, so less than a new one.  B-Stock is fully guaranteed, so not worries then.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a new bag and ND10 filter can be bagged at the same time.   Chances are though B-Stock may sell out, so Sunday is probably the purchase day for me.  Though based on last year the new price hardly moved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tis the time of year, where the mind goes off on one. So excuse me as i&#8217;m pondering once more. Looking back at last years Focus posts and prices, it seems I missed the rather large elephant waving to me in the room (well not so much room, it was a large hall at the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=1450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;B-Stock (aka refurbs)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,10],"tags":[356,231,234,232,233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}