Amazon's Wacom Intuos5

Tairii · Aug 2012

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 · Aug 2012

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 · Aug 2012

Go to Wacom website > store.

You will get an idea about the price.

Daelus · Aug 2012

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 · Aug 2012

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 · Aug 2012

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

iamcreasy · Aug 2012

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 · Aug 2012

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 · Feb 2013

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Pretty great sale on Intuos 4's today.

Amazon's Wacom Intuos5

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