Buyer beware

[stubbsy]

While looking around for prices on a Nikon D700 camera I came across this little gem.

D700 body only (OZ SELLER, SHIP FROM SYDNEY, NO CUSTOM TAX, GET FAST) on ebay (see it HERE) for the amazing price of $4,099.88. It has "Nikon HK 12-month warranty" so it's a grey import. By comparison the same camera, genuine Australian stock with 2 year Nikon Australia warranty can be had for $3,395 at ECS or grey for $2,999 at d-d photographics. That's over $1,000 price difference.

Guess there's a sucker born every minute.

[gstark]

It's on eBay, so it must be a bargain.



Thanks for the timely warning, Peter.

[Killakoala]

Ebay is dreadful these days. The Ebay management seem to have lost control of scammers.

[glamy]

It's on eBay, so it must be a bargain.

[FrankieP]

It's rather funny until you look to the right of the listing details and see "2 sold"....

Caveat emptor indeed.

[blacknstormy]

What's worse is his feedback - ok, only 2 negative, but look at the neutral ...
"was supposed to be Oz stock, but shipped from HongKong " - so not only expensive, but false advertising to boot , and apparantly, they do this a fair bit !
Wish there was something we could do about sellers like this - but I don't suppose there is ??

[FrankieP]

The two sales on that particular listing were from last year, dunno when it came out or how accessible it was here, but I wonder if the D700 was new then and hard to find?

On the false location thing, I bought my 18-200mm VRII from a supposedly Australian-based seller who took a week to ship it from Hong Kong. I'd specifically paid more to buy 'local' so that I would get it sooner.. ended up taking my trip without the lens and waiting another 2 weeks for it after my return! I think all we can do realistically though is either vote with our dollars and right to choose in the first place, and/or report via feedback in the second.