Today's Best Webcam Deals At eBayJanuary 2021

We currently list 76 webcams ranging from $9 to $475. On average, a new webcam costs $78 and 80% of webcams are priced between $19 and $190. The cheapest webcam that we found is the Sony PlayStation Eye at only $10, and the most expensive is the Logitech PTZ Pro Camera at $475.

We have checked 665 expert reviews and 8,179 user reviews for webcams and used this information to determine the average rating for each brand of webcam. The top rated webcam brand is Logitech with an average rating of 88%. The second best brand is Microsoft with 69% and the third best brand is HP with 69%.

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

We found 75 current offers for webcams from eBay making it the biggest webcam retailer. That is over 8 times bigger than the second biggest retailer, Overstock for whom we found 9 current offers for webcams. The third biggest retailer is Adorama with 6 current webcam offers.

The chart below helps you decide which retailer is normally cheapest for buying webcams. For each retailer it shows the total number of webcams where they currently have a market leading price. The chart below helps you decide which retailer is normally cheapest for buying webcams. 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. 73 of their webcam prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

Assessing how cheap each retailer is for webcams by counting the number of cheapest prices for that retailer, makes the retailers that offer the greatest number of webcam prices more likely to offer the greatest number of cheapest prices. The chart below considers the proportion of each retailer's webcam prices that are the cheapest compared to other retailers. The cheapest retailer that we found using this approach was eBay. 97.3% of their webcam prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

On average webcams drop in price by 28% in the first 6 months after release.

If you are prepared to wait then you could save an average of $22 on a typical $78 new webcam by waiting 6 months before buying.

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

Over the last 3 years we couldn't see any evident trend in the release month for new webcams. The biggest month in 2020 for new webcam releases was October, with two new webcams released that month. In 2019 most new webcams were released in April, with four new webcams released that month. June was the biggest month in 2018 for new webcams, with seven new webcams released that month.

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