It's been 1499 everywhere for the past couple of months. Not sure why all of a sudden it jumped up to 1650 the past week. Either way, there's some rumours that either an A6700 or A7000 will be announced by Sony next month, so I'd wait it out instead.

there was some Dell 10% rebate deals on the camera A6500 or A6300 a few months ago were it was decent or amazon had a few used/return ones listed under $1400. the sudden increase does seems strange - holiday season approaching? even the A6000 is still around $679 (over 4 years since its release).not sure if the A6700/A7000 acts like a successor as did with the A6500 for the A6000. i am afraid of the MSRP..