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OR Helium II Jacket is going for $57 at the moment on Amazon (Mens/L/Red only)
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Feb 17, 2020 at 3:04 pm #3631749
It’s $56.65 and for the L/Red (“Samba”) only.
Shipped and sold by Amazon so nothing fishy from 3rd party sellers, just really low price for this jacket.
Also M/”Prussian Blue” and M/Samba are at $88.45.
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Feb 17, 2020 at 3:15 pm #3631765Nice find. By the way, the Helium II has been replaced by…the Helium III? Nope, just the Helium. Initially, the new Helium will be exclusive to REI.
In the meantime, you’ll find the Helium II on clearance a number of places (including OR’s site, in some colors and sizes) if you don’t find the one you’re looking for on Amazon.
Feb 17, 2020 at 4:05 pm #3631791Hi @jimothy, that’s good to know, I couldn’t find any mentioning of the new-not-iii-helium version though, where did you learn about that?
Feb 17, 2020 at 4:33 pm #3631799I don’t remember exactly where I saw it first, but Section Hiker had this blurb where they mention that REI will have an exclusive for the first six months. There, they refer to it as Helium III
Then I saw the new jacket on REI’s site, where it’s called simply Helium. I might be drawing the wrong conclusion, though; maybe REI just has it incorrectly in their system for now.
Feb 18, 2020 at 7:07 am #3631895I suspect they just changed their mind on how they wanted to name it in the 6 months since I saw their preview at the Outdoor Retailer trade show.
Feb 18, 2020 at 1:37 pm #3631968The Amazon price says $104.99 not $57 for the Samba L.
Feb 18, 2020 at 1:44 pm #3631970I was going to say that the price has probably fluctuated since the first post, but here’s a screen shot from 3 minutes ago. As mentioned in the first post, it’s only for Men/L/Samba.
Feb 19, 2020 at 9:50 pm #3632213It’s out of stock for immediate delivery, so it’s replaced with Backcountry as the seller. You need to go to the ‘other buying options’ and then select prime.
Too many rain jackets already…too many rain jackets already. I’ll just keep repeating that to myself.
Feb 20, 2020 at 3:38 pm #3632302GAAAAAA!
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