Amazon's Wacom Intuos5

Tairii

Hey guys, I've been shopping around for a Wacom to do personal projects with (painting with a mouse is annoying now). While price shopping, I noticed that Amazon.com has a Wacom Intuos 5 Medium for $229. Considering an Intuos is around 349, I feel a bit skeptical about this price. Does anyone have any experience buying this product or similar products from Amazon?

Rwolf

Friend just bought a pair of PS3 controllers w/ $10 off each, seems no problem if it's from "Amazon" and not one of the vendors.

iamcreasy

Go to Wacom website > store.

You will get an idea about the price.

Daelus

Doesn't shock me. I bought my Intuos 4 medium for 199 off amazon a while back, so this is hardly out of the bounds of reason.

Jeremy Wright

Amazon often sells "Academic" versions of the Intuos (all the ones I bought were thus labeled) for a fair discount off the regular versions. There is no difference that I can tell in them.

Tairii

Thanks guys, exactly the information I wanted to see. It was just weird because my school sells them for like 340.

iamcreasy

Jeremy Wright wrote: »

Amazon often sells "Academic" versions of the Intuos (all the ones I bought were thus labeled) for a fair discount off the regular versions. There is no difference that I can tell in them.

Are they tied to any particular institute or any student from anywhere around the world can buy academic version?

breakneck

Also, don't dismiss alternative products besides an intuos.
If cost is a factor, monoprice makes graphics tablets that are way cheaper. - The only lost of quality is all the bells and whistles of a Wacom(touch screens, mouse, etc).

I own a cintiq and a intuos 4 and I also have 12x9 monoprice tablet. Although the monoprice is a bit large for my taste, I honestly prefer the drawing surface and pressure curve more so than my wacom products.
http://www.monoprice.com/products/search.asp?spcDB=10841&spcWord=Graphics+Tablets&keyword=tablet

Andreas

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Pretty great sale on Intuos 4's today.