I'd love to hear your comment on the bay. Your comment is suggesting not to purchase from the bay, but why?
First try to buy from an Authorizing dealer. If the they are an Authorizing dealer on the bay, make sure you have proof and your purchased is back just like you walked into there doors.
Staying with an Authorized dealer builds the industry, creates jobs, you are pretty much assured of a higher level of reliability and hopefully honesty.
You should have a "reachable contact". You should receive only factory brand merchandise, depending on the item, some with a manuf. backed warranty.
Still buying from the bay is a pure faceless transaction. Connecting to someone can be a challenge, to say the less.
Now yes, there are some good honest ones on the bay, if you must just be extremely selective and do your homework, if you must...
If are you going to purchase from an unauthorized dealer, you should consider the following. Some unauthorized dealers sell products with the serial numbers altered, or entirely removed so that the manufacturers cannot track how they obtained these units and what channels or country they are sold in. This voids the warranty. Some unauthorized dealers sell "grey / black market goods" or "parallel import" versions of the products. These are similar versions that were not intended for distribution in the USA. Or specifically targeted for USA as fakes. In many instances, the manufacturers will not honor the warranty or rebate offers on products that are not sold through their approved sales networks. Even when the merchandise is the legitimate USA version, some unauthorized dealers will take accessories from the unit and sell them separately at an additional profit/ cost. Some dealers will sell refurbished products without informing you of this. So these are just some of potential pitfalls from buying from the bay or a faceless unauthorized dealer.
The counterfeit Report has received thousands of counterfeit products from reported bay sellers and identified well over 1 million counterfeit items listed or sold to the bay consumers. Fake black market (which feeds criminals) items –items that never existed in the manufacturer’s product line — but had the manufacturer’s trademark. The Counterfeit Report continued with multiple purchases from dozens of the same sellers after notifying the bay of the criminal activity, yet the sellers remained. Thousands of the bay “Money Back Guarantee” claims initiated by The Counterfeit Report proved to be a difficult gauntlet of obstructions, illegal directions and arbitrary decisions. Inexplicably, the bay initiates a refund claim by requiring the buyer to return the counterfeit item to the seller, where it could be easily resold again. Sadly counterfeit purchasers are not told they have purchased a fake and yes can be entitled to a the bay “Money Back Guarantee” refund ( but it can be very tough and quite a lengthy process).
You can make a big difference in your actions when buying!
I suggest supporting the place that supports our forum, TW.
Or Local authorized dealers or others online if you can not.
Also ...on a budget...try here!
We have our great For Sale ( or trade) Forum, you deal with loyal passionate members with a great track record, honest and they normally have great references (in another thread).
Just my 2 cents...
