Today's Biggest Projector Price Drops At eBayMay 2021

Multimedia projectors range in price from $142 to $24,167 and in total we found prices for 513 multimedia projectors. A new projector costs on average $1,470 and 80% of multimedia projectors are priced between $300 and $2,900. The DELL 1210S is the cheapest projector at only $142, and Sony VPLVW1100ES is the most expensive at $24,167.

We have evaluated 3,866 expert reviews and 21,630 user reviews for multimedia projectors and used these reviews to determine the average rating for each brand of projector. The top rated data projector brand is Epson with an average rating of 89%. The second best brand is Optoma with 84% and the third best brand is Benq with 80%.

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

The biggest data projector retailer by number of products currently for sale is eBay. We found 384 current data projector offers from eBay. The second biggest retailer is Adorama with 178 offers. That means eBay is more than twice as big as 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. 356 of their multimedia 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 projector prices more likely to offer the greatest number of cheapest prices. The chart below considers the proportion of each retailer's projector prices that are the cheapest compared to other retailers. The cheapest retailer that we found using this approach was eBay. 92.7% of their projector prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

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

That means that on a typical projector costing $1,473 you could save on average $47 by waiting 6 months before buying.

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

The most common period for new multimedia projectors to be released in is between May and June. That means that most of the latest data projector technology was released in within the last 3 months, and now is good time to buy. In 2020 most new projectors were released in May, with 21 new projectors released that month. June was the biggest month in 2019 for new projectors, with 16 new projectors released that month. 46 new multimedia projectors were released in September 2018 making it the biggest month that year for new data projector releases.

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