Leon, may I please remind you the ill-fated DA* 16-50/2.8? On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Leon Altoff <[email protected]> wrote: > HI All, > > I want to buy a couple of lenses. I've priced them locally and via > mail order from B&H. If I buy locally it will cost me an extra AU$900 > (after GST, shipping and currency exchange, etc). That's over half a > K7! > > The disadvantage is a USA warranty so I would have to ship it over if > anything went wrong. Has anyone ever had a lens go faulty under > warranty? I've had 2 cameras go faulty under warranty (Super A and > *istD), but never a lens and I've owned more of them. > > I like to support my local traders and importers, but $900 is a lot of > money and for something that is not likely to go wrong having an > international warranty is not much of a justification for spending it. > Does anyone have reasons for me spending money locally in Australia > rather than in the USA? > > -- > > Leon > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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