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<blockquote data-quote="Burt" data-source="post: 845269" data-attributes="member: 68616">Again you are 100% correct... My numbers start with 7 and that it is Asia where Australia does start with 6... The US is 3...So we really don't know how many they sold... I also got lenses with n. 4 Europe and n.2 Japan...In all honesty, I think Australia has a wider multicultural approach to the way local companies handle warranties.. My European lens, got fixed twice already by the local Canon workshop for free. We also have special laws that protect the consumer, regardless of what the company does claim... When we buy a product, we always get the disclaimer about our warranty laws preceding their laws.. If they want to sell in Australia they have to abide to it. The grey market kinda of went out of the window when Internet started to show the people the companies that were colluding and price gouging different countries around the world for no reason other than they could... Australia has always been a target because we are a very wealthy and isolated country... It still happens, but much, much less these days...It was the same story in the old days with DVD and Bluray... Then Internet came along and Bob's your uncle... Weeding out grey import, is a pipe dream today...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Burt, post: 845269, member: 68616"] Again you are 100% correct... My numbers start with 7 and that it is Asia where Australia does start with 6... The US is 3... So we really don't know how many they sold... I also got lenses with n. 4 Europe and n.2 Japan... In all honesty, I think Australia has a wider multicultural approach to the way local companies handle warranties.. My European lens, got fixed twice already by the local Canon workshop for free. We also have special laws that protect the consumer, regardless of what the company does claim... When we buy a product, we always get the disclaimer about our warranty laws preceding their laws.. If they want to sell in Australia they have to abide to it. The grey market kinda of went out of the window when Internet started to show the people the companies that were colluding and price gouging different countries around the world for no reason other than they could... Australia has always been a target because we are a very wealthy and isolated country... It still happens, but much, much less these days... It was the same story in the old days with DVD and Bluray... Then Internet came along and Bob's your uncle... Weeding out grey import, is a pipe dream today... [/QUOTE]

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