Today's Best Camcorder Deals At eBaySeptember 2021

The price range of camcorders is from $27 to $10,500 and in total we found prices for 145 camcorders. A new camcorder costs on average $1,083 and 80% of video cameras are priced between $59 and $3,158. The VTech Kidizoom Action Cam 180 is the cheapest video camera at only $28, and Canon C300 Mark II is the most expensive at $10,500.

We have evaluated 2,329 expert reviews and 19,240 user reviews for camcorders and used this data to evaluate the average rating for each brand of video camera. The top rated camcorder brand is Sony with an average rating of 85%. The second best brand is Canon with 82% and the third best brand is Panasonic with 70%.

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We found 102 current offers for camcorders from eBay making it the biggest camcorder retailer. That is significantly bigger than the second biggest retailer, Adorama for whom we found 70 current offers for camcorders. The third biggest retailer is Overstock with 44 current camcorder offers.

The chart below helps you decide which retailer is normally cheapest for buying video cameras. For each retailer it shows the total number of video cameras where they currently have a market leading price. The chart below helps you decide which retailer is normally cheapest for buying video cameras. For each retailer we took all of their prices and looked at what proportion of those prices where the cheapest on the market. The cheapest retailer that we found was eBay. 80 of their camcorder prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

Assessing how cheap each retailer is for video cameras by counting the number of cheapest prices for that retailer, makes the retailers that offer the greatest number of camcorder prices more likely to offer the greatest number of cheapest prices. The chart below considers the proportion of each retailer's camcorder prices that are the cheapest compared to other retailers. The cheapest retailer that we found using this approach was eBay. 78.4% of their video camera prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

On average, in the first 6 months after release, video cameras drop in price by 3%.

If you are prepared to wait then you could save an average of $28 on a typical $1,083 new camcorder by waiting 6 months before buying.

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We couldn't see any clear trend in the release dates for new camcorders over the last 3 years. The biggest month last year for new video camera releases was January, with one new video cameras released that month. Four new video cameras were released in July 2019 making it the biggest month that year for new camcorder releases. April was the biggest month in 2018 for new video cameras, with six new video cameras released that month.

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