TZ18 camera - to buy now or wait?

shoe_gal_84

I want to buy a new camera for when I go on honeymoon in April 2012. I have found a camera that I love - Panasonic Lumix TZ18.
It's currently on Amazon for £178, which is fine, and I have enough birthday money to buy it.
I just wondered if anyone thinks it may be worth waiting to see if the price goes down nearer to Christmas, or even after Christmas?

Any thoughts welcome.

rachmc

I don't know whether you should wait or buy now- I don't pay too much attention to price fluctuations on Amazon.

I was looking at the price of a camera I wanted yesterday and stumbled across a website called camera price buster. It gives you a list of the places selling the camera and shows the price for each site plus p&p if it applies. I checked out the camera you want and Amazon is the cheapest for it at the minute. If you do decide to wait, bookmark this link as it is a link to the prices for the camera you want...
http://www.camerapricebuster.com/Panasonic_Lumix_DMC-TZ18_pc.html

Hope this helps in a round-about way!

Clowance

in general its better to wait, as a new model may be released and the old one should go down in price.

Bongedone

If you have any Clubcard vouchers you can get double value at Jessops. They have the camera for £179

Mk14:37

Clowance wrote: »

in general its better to wait, as a new model may be released and the old one should go down in price.

If you did that then you'd never buy any gadgets, because there is always an upgrade around the corner. In this particular case I would say unlikely, as the TZ-18 was only launched this year.

OP, great choice of camera. You might find it in the sales but there's no guarantee. Try to think laterally as Bongedong suggeted with Tesco vouchers - do you have any way of buying vouchers at a discount, for example? Some workplaces offer salary sacrifice schemes for shopping vouchers.

deanos

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