Canon Philippines opens Online eShop

In a press launch this earlier today, Canon Philippines announced they have opened an online store for local customers called Canon eShop.

Canon will be selling a number of items in their eShop which includes digital cameras and lenses, printers, inks, videocams and scanners.

While there are a lot of stores in Metro Manila that carries their products, Canon promises that the eShop will feature the rare and hard to find items (including the popular EOS Crumpler Strap) you won’t normally find in the stores.

canon eshop

At the moment, there are very few items available on the store and most of the catalog pages are basically empty.

My issue though is that Canon is padding an additional charge on top of the shipping costs. I don’t get what that “Convenience Charge” is all about. For example, if you order the Crumpler Strap which costs Php1,200USD 20INR 1,734EUR 19CNY 149, you will also be charged Php200USD 3INR 289EUR 3CNY 25 for shipping and Php97USD 2INR 140EUR 2CNY 12 for “convenience”. Now that’s a bummer.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

26 Comments

Kyle says:

16 years ago

convenience charge?! because the customer don’t need to go to their store? what the..
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teampilipinas.info says:

16 years ago

here’s the link:

http://eshop.canon.com.ph

enjoy!
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WTFLMAOBBQ says:

16 years ago

WTF is that?!!!

Damn… That is one of the reason I Don’t buy canon stuffs here in the philippines…

All Canon items here in the Philippines are OVERPRICED!!!

Speaking of overprice,
Can you believe I got 2 EOS 50D kits for 52k PHP.

In HongKong…
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Obed says:

16 years ago

Yuga is that a fix charge or something like a percentage of the item you purchased?
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william says:

16 years ago

might be pricey but its a good thing that there are big companies now offering online store.. such as apple and now canon. i do hope there will be other brands making an online store.
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CPB says:

16 years ago

What are the payment forms acceptable?
a. Do they accept these…
1. Paypal
2. Western Union
3. Credit Cards (specially Debit cards)

b. How about returning of defective products? Is there additional fee?
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Dexter | Tech At Hand Dot Net says:

16 years ago

Don’t they have any affiliate links.. Maybe it is time for us to earn from those units.
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Jill Santiago says:

16 years ago

Hi, I work for Canon Philippines, thanks for the valuable feedback, and would just like to clarify that the “Convenience Charge” is actually the charge that payment partner charges for processing the online payment. It is actually 6% of the price of the item.

The EOS Crumpler Strap’s retail price is actually Php1,500 when you purchase it at the Canon Head Office, hence as a special introductory offer on the online store, it will be priced the same if you buy it online inclusive of the delivery fee and “convenience fee” (Php1,497). So it’s actually more convenient to purchase it on the online store.

By the way, the SRP of the Crumpler strap at Crumpler outlets is also Php1,500 and the stocks are quite rare here in the Phils.

Cheers! :)
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William says:

14 years ago

Hi Jill,
I’ve been searching for that “red strap” from Canon. Since you work with canon is there any phone number or office i can go to buy one. I’ll be buying a nice 600D next month , it would be awesome to have the red strap together with that :)

Jill Santiago says:

16 years ago

By the way, the Canon Online Store accepts Visa and Mastercard.

All the Canon products purchased have a one-year warranty. :)
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Abe Olandres says:

16 years ago

Thanks for the clarification Jill. It should have been noted in the checkout page that it’s CC processing bill instead of convenience charge. IMO, people would accept it more that way.
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