[Leica] Re:Gray market

[lew at speakeasy.net (Lew Schwartz)]

Of course this makes no sense. If you buy a camera in Europe, the cost of
underwriting warrantee repairs is figured into the purchase price. If the
camera is shipped overseas, then the underwriting cost markup is pure profit
with no liability.
-Lew 

-----Original Message-----
According to them the logic is, all the costs associated with the camera
come out of the profits they make selling the cameras they import.  Buying
one from the internet or a gray market dealer gave them no profit, thus they
should not bear the expense of repairing it.  Their agreement allows them to
bill back repairs from products brought into the country by the customer
that bought it directly from a Nikon dealer in another country.  According
to them, all the major players had a similar policy.