Today's Biggest Projector Price Drops At eBayOctober 2020

We currently list 553 data projectors ranging from $133 to $19,999. The average price of a new data projector is $1,620 and the 80% of projectors are priced between $324 and $3,295. The cheapest multimedia projector that we found is the Irulu BL20 at only $133, and the most expensive is the Sony VPLVZ1000ES at $19,999.

We have analysed 16 expert reviews and 665 user reviews for projectors and used these reviews to calculate the average rating for each brand of multimedia projector. Benq is the top rated data projector brand with an average rating of 95%. Epson is the second best brand with 90% and Optoma is the third best brand with 84%.

Read more in our article what are the best Projector brands?

The biggest projector retailer by number of products currently for sale is eBay. We found 367 current projector offers from eBay. The second biggest retailer is Adorama with 197 offers. That means eBay is much bigger than Adorama when it comes to multimedia projectors. Overstock is the third biggest retailer with 100 current offers.

The chart below helps you decide which retailer is normally cheapest for buying projectors. For each retailer it shows the total number of projectors where they currently have a market leading price. The chart below helps you decide which retailer is normally cheapest for buying multimedia projectors. 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. 329 of their projector prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

Assessing how cheap each retailer is for projectors by counting the number of cheapest prices for that retailer, makes the retailers that offer the greatest number of data projector prices more likely to offer the greatest number of cheapest prices. The chart below considers the proportion of each retailer's data projector prices that are the cheapest compared to other retailers. The cheapest retailer that we found using this approach was eBay. 89.6% of their data projector prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

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

That means that on a typical multimedia projector costing $1,622 you could save on average $54 by waiting 6 months before buying.

Read more in our article How quickly do Projectors drop in price?

Over the last 3 years we couldn't see any clear pattern in the release month for new multimedia projectors. In 2019 most new data projectors were released in April, with 15 new data projectors released that month. July was the biggest month in 2018 for new projectors, with 44 new projectors released that month. The biggest month in 2017 for new projector releases was September, with 63 new projectors released that month.

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