Grey Market D750's - $450 off

§am

Senior Member
They provide "Heroic Customer Service"!!!!
That's enough to put me off for life - what heroic acts do their customer service provide that makes anyone more likely to buy from them.
Also, as it's a grey import, you are not covered by Nikon US warranty so if the seller goes bust you're on your own.

All that aside, it's a heft discount indeed :)
 

Marcel

Happily retired
Staff member
Super Mod
BUT: Buyer beware

Seems they are selling more than what they have in stock:

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Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
I'm as suspicious as anyone when it comes to eBaby, but it seems to me seller is indicating they started with 64 bodies and have sold 62; thus there are 2 remaining.

Then again, I'm not eBay expert, either.

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grandpaw

Senior Member
I may be wrong but it seems to me that I remember reading that if it is grey market that Nikon won't work on it period, even if you want to pay for the repairs. Nikon will not sell parts to repair shops, so if it breaks you have a nice paper weight to place on a shelf.
 

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
Nikon will perform no warranty service on a grey market camera, but they will certainly service it at a price. Or are you telling me that if I buy a camera while on a trip to Japan and bring it back to the US I would never be able to service it? We've been through this before, and if memory serves the gamble is with warranty service only - which means they would not cover the exchange of D600 for D610 bodies that some here have experienced had the original D600 been foreign market (but they did replace one for me that I purchased used here in the US). So yes, there is a risk, and I do not recommend it whole-heartedly. But there are some willing to take the risk.

As for the seller, yes the numbers mean there are 2 items left of an original 64 listed with 62 sold. A review of his feedback shows similar sales going back a good while, and the negatives seem mostly to do with shipping delays and the seller's desire to sell add'l warranty service. For me, Brooklyn is 90 minutes away and I'd be happy to take a trip in to pick it up personally - or pay a visit with said product if something wasn't up to snuff, so even the negatives are minor and run at well under 1% of the over ten thousand transactions.

Again, I'm not recommending or endorsing anyone, but know that I wouldn't have posted a link to what I considered to be a potential unscrupulous seller (at least as eBay standards go) in the first place if I wouldn't have been comfortable ordering from them myself.
 

LensWork

Senior Member
Just confirming this is correct.

Nikon *will* repair your busted grey-market item, just not under warranty/for free.

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Nikon USA will NOT service a "grey market" (not imported into the U.S. by Nikon USA). period, even if you are willing to pay for the repair. The camera must be serviced in the country of original export.
 

grandpaw

Senior Member
I just got off the phone with Nikon and they said if you do not have a receipt from where the company you are buying a grey market item from originally purchased a grey market item to sell it to you then they will not work on it even if you want to pay for the repair. This is not a receipt from who you bought it from but a receipt from where it was originally purchased for resale.
 

sonicbuffalo_RIP

Senior Member
Thanks @grandpaw / Jeff....that's what I remember reading in the past. It means you are taking a $1900 risk. Unless you can find someone that knows how to repair a DSLR and can get the parts, which I doubt. Thanks for doing the homework for us!
 

grandpaw

Senior Member
I asked a long time repair shop in Houston while I was there if he could replace my rubber zoom band on my Nikon 70-200VR because it had some slack in it. He said Nikon will NOT send any parts (even a simple band) to a repair shop and that repairs had to be done by Nikon. I sent another one of my lenses off to Nikon to have a new band put on it and it was gone 2 1/2 months.
 

carguy

Senior Member
Nikon will perform no warranty service on a grey market camera, but they will certainly service it at a price. Or are you telling me that if I buy a camera while on a trip to Japan and bring it back to the US I would never be able to service it? We've been through this before, and if memory serves the gamble is with warranty service only - which means they would not cover the exchange of D600 for D610 bodies that some here have experienced had the original D600 been foreign market (but they did replace one for me that I purchased used here in the US). So yes, there is a risk, and I do not recommend it whole-heartedly. But there are some willing to take the risk.

As for the seller, yes the numbers mean there are 2 items left of an original 64 listed with 62 sold. A review of his feedback shows similar sales going back a good while, and the negatives seem mostly to do with shipping delays and the seller's desire to sell add'l warranty service. For me, Brooklyn is 90 minutes away and I'd be happy to take a trip in to pick it up personally - or pay a visit with said product if something wasn't up to snuff, so even the negatives are minor and run at well under 1% of the over ten thousand transactions.

Again, I'm not recommending or endorsing anyone, but know that I wouldn't have posted a link to what I considered to be a potential unscrupulous seller (at least as eBay standards go) in the first place if I wouldn't have been comfortable ordering from them myself.

According to Nikon (link below) Nikon will not even work on gray market items no matter who pays for it.

https://support.nikonusa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/331/~/what-is-gray-market?

What does owning a "Gray Market" Nikon product mean to you?
Nikon Inc. USA cannot provide any technical support or warranty service on Gray Market items. Additionally Nikon Inc. USA cannot perform any fee-based repair work on Gray Market items. Please do not contact Nikon Inc. USA for help with any Gray Market products. Please contact the reseller or importer of your Gray Market items for warranty and service information as well as software updates and downloads.
 
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