Today's Biggest Webcam Price DropsSeptember 2021

Webcams range in price from $9 to $587 and in total we found prices for 85 webcams. A new webcam costs on average $64 and 80% of webcams are priced between $13 and $117. The Microsoft LifeCam HD-3000 is the cheapest webcam at only $9, and Logitech 960001178 is the most expensive at $586.

We have evaluated 779 expert reviews and 13,070 user reviews for webcams and used this data to evaluate the average rating for each brand of webcam. The top three webcam brands are Logitech, HP and Microsoft. Logitech has an average rating of 88%, HP has an average rating of 70% and Microsoft has an average rating of 70%.

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The biggest webcam retailer by number of products currently for sale is eBay. We found 89 current webcam offers from eBay. The second biggest retailer is Adorama with 11 offers. That means eBay is over 8 times bigger than Adorama when it comes to webcams. Overstock is the third biggest retailer with 9 current 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. 88 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. 98.9% of their webcam prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

New webcams drop in price by an average of 14% in the first 6 months after they were first released.

That means that on a typical webcam costing $64 you could save on average $9 by waiting 6 months before buying.

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

Most new webcams tend to be released between April and June. In May 2020, two new webcams were released making it the biggest month that year for new webcam releases. In 2019 most new webcams were released in April, with six new webcams released that month. The biggest month in 2018 for new webcam releases was June, with seven new webcams released that month.

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