Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's the same quality, but if anything goes wrong, you'll have to pay for all repairs. Or some dealers will sell gray market and are willing to extend a "store warranty" of varying coverage, i.e. repair/replace with certain time limits, etc. The quality of the store would then have to be taken into consideration. For instance, I've never dealt with Cambridge Camera, but they have a bad reputation given responses in the usenet groups and the internet based photo mail order survey. If they offered a store warranty, I'd be skeptical whether they would reliably honor it. John At 5:30 AM -0000 1/23/99, Francesco wrote: >Is grey market just as reliable as normal Leica gear? > >Francesco > > > >At 09:07 PM 1/22/99 , you wrote: >>Does it have a legitimate US Passport? If not, it's gray market equipment, >>which can be sold much cheaper than US equipment. >> >>Jim >> >>At 08:39 PM 1/22/99 -0800, you wrote: >>>Has anyone else bought Leica equipment from Cambridge Camera in NY? >>>Their prices seem unrealistically low, and I just bought a 28mm 2.8 for >>>$1399 which was almost $500 less than B&H. Is this just too good to be >>>true? >>> >>>http://www.cambridgeny.com/leica.htm >>> >>>They are obnoxious on the phone but hey, they are in New York! (No flames, >>>Im an ex-NewYorker myself) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>