Just curious, why'd you register the purchase with Nikon? I think that's just a mailing list thing. I've never done that with anything I've purchased, as the warranty is applicable regardless as long as I have the original receipt.
I wanted to make sure it wasnt grey market..I read a few posts referring to B and H and sometimes they sell grey market...I dont know it thats really true or not but not taking the chance. Especially if something needs to be fixed.
They do, but they always refer to them as “international.” They will sell either, in separate offerings, and you decide for yourself if you want to save money for no warranty or pay a bit more for it.
I have not purchased any gear in about 5 years, so I had no idea.
I was considering purchasing grey market for a 100-400 lens. Nobody has them in stock except for AbesofMaine, 6th Ave , and a few on Amazon. But very few would repair it is it had an issue. What is your opinion?
I think I have bought a couple of things from Abe’s in the past. I don’t buy grey market myself because if anything goes wrong there is no repair capability other than, potentially, a local repair shop. And those are becoming increasingly rare.
Frankly your biggest risk is not repair. It’s that the lens will be badly decentered or otherwise flawed (also a very rare chance) with a problem no one but Nikon can fix, which they won’t, because it’s grey-market. So you end up with a sub-par lens or perhaps months of waiting while … I don’t know what the remedy would be there.
You will save $100 buying the lens grey-market at Abe’s. The trade-off is that if it isn’t perfect you have a $2,600 brick. That is not a good enough price difference for the potential downside, in my opinion.
