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To save few $$$ on a new A7, A7r and A7s camera purchase you also have the option to buy them as Open Box, Refurbished or Grey Imported. Here are the links:
Open Box:
Sony A7 and 1 year warranty for $1,150 at [shoplink 33442 ebay]Samys (Click here)[/shoplink].
Sony A7r and 1 year warranty for $1,849 at [shoplink 33443 ebay]Samys (Click here)[/shoplink].
Refurbished:
Sony A7 for $1,199 at [shoplink 33445 ebay]BeachCamera (Click here)[/shoplink].
Grey Imported with US seller warranty:
Sony A7 with kit lens and 1 year warranty for $1,339 at [shoplink 33441 ebay]GetDigital (Click here)[/shoplink].
Sony A7r and 1 year warranty for $1,644 at [shoplink 33444 ebay]6ave (Click here)[/shoplink].
Sony A7s and 1 year warranty for $1,955 at [shoplink 33249 ebay]DealsAllYear (Click here)[/shoplink].
Sony A7s and 1 year warranty for $2,009 at [shoplink 33249 ebay]NY Store ThePixelHub (Click here)[/shoplink].
Sony A7s and 5 year warranty for $2,099 at [shoplink 33250 ebay]NJaccessory (Click here)[/shoplink].
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What is a “grey importation” exactly ?
They don’t pay Tax
That’s black / smuggling.
Grey is not going through the official distribution chain. E.g. they may have an MSRP in country A. Meanwhile, it’s a lot cheaper in Japan (just take a look through kakaku). So they buy wholesale in Japan, import and pay customs duties and VAT / sales tax, and still be much lower in price than the MSRP of the official distributor. Downside, you may not have manufacturer warranty and it may have Japanese accessories or even be set up for Japanese language (you have to check with the seller).
Thanks for the clear explanation.
I don’t know about Sony, but Nikon refuses to repair grey market products, warranty or no warranty doesn’t matter.
Sounds like once again Nikon has their customer’s best interests in mind, even though Nikon has made a profit on the original sale of the unit in whatever geography it happened to be in. Customer wants to pay money for a repair? Customer must be punished!!
FCameron, actually I expect it is more about requirements of the agreements that Nikon has with the US distributors than it has to do with Nikon not wanting to collect money for repairs. If Nikon would provide full service or even service at a price to anyone with a camera regardless of where it was originally purchased then the distributors in the US would probably see little benefit in buying or pushing Nikon product when they knew they were going to have to compete with Billy Bob that was pushing cameras at prices below price points that they were allowed to advertise at… but I’m sure you can still get your Nikon worked on at other places besides Nikon’s service department.
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I don’t get it.
Are you against Sony and laughing cause a three year old FF e-mount system has less lenses then the over decade old cannon stuff?
Or are you against Cannon and laughing cause every time a three year old e-mount system releases a new camera or lens to build up that line it’s better than it’s cannon counter part?
Just messing with you trolling 😉
Cannon does have great lenses, but maaaaaan that A7s and A7II….. Cannon better start thinking about cameras or the adapter market is going to surpass them in sales.
Forgive them, they have dragged by those expensive OSS lenses since the beginning. until now, not even have any IBIS in camera. in term of sensor, DR and ISO just 2 gen back.
But at least those expensive lenses can be use on IBIS FF GEM FE. Basically Canon make lenses to be use in FE lol…
What’s Cannon?
Haha my computer doesn’t even know what Canon is and autocorrects it to a Cannon. 😉 must not be as popular as you think.
You are so funny, god bless you.
Haha, I have fun with this. I’m glad you can take it while dishing it out. What fun would life be without going to a event and not giving your phtog buddies a hard time about their gear.
And later to respect the shot they just got into print or on a large site, no matter what gear they used.
Very well said, respect.
Collect them all…….and then sell them for M43rds.
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sony actually has 4 flash units with the new mount not just one.
Out of that whole cannon collection only two of them are worth buying, the rest are junk. You could say the same for their lenses.
Andrea, why not post some discounts going here in Europe, if there are any?
We may be on the other side of the pond, but we too want to save money! 😉
@admin Andrea. Any rumors on the zeiss touit line?
Are these grey market Ebay deals for the A7S worth the roughly $500 savings over BH or Adorama?
depends on whether you feel lucky or not…. If the camera never needs any servicing then its a good deal… but if it does need to be repaired you are at the mercy of a seller that may or may not actually be around to fix the problem… To me it isn’t worth it when its from a seller I’m not familiar with.