Deecee

http://petapixel.com/2015/08/14/i-bought-a-fake-nikon-dslr-my-experience-with-gray-market-imports/

As the saying goes, you get what you paid for.

joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

Gray market and Fake are entirely two different things.

Do some research to educate yourself.

Deecee

And perhaps you should have read the article before responding. The opening paragraph said:

"I settled upon a D7000 and, in February 2014, made a purchase from an online retailer who deals specifically with those mysterious and opinion-stirring items: The Gray Market Import."

I don't know, I guess maybe I'm not too well educated, but this sounds like gray market to me.

jethro779 Loc: Tucson, AZ

Read the story. It is about a grey market purchase that turned into a fake camera.

Deecee

I agree, it probably was a fake camera. But it was sold under the guise of "gray market."

I have bought from gray market in the past and never had any problems, but as always, it's buyer beware. And that was the reason I posted the article, just to remind fellow photographers that if the price is too good to be true, it probably is. Not to start some kind of ridiculous debate on gray market vs factory authorized

Math78 Loc: Scottsdale, AZ

The camera was a real D7000, just UK gray market. But it had a fake serial number on the body which made it appear to be NOT a gray market camera.

You can verify your Nikon serial number by looking at the EXIF data from any photo. I just checked my D7100 and my internal and external serial numbers agree. Yay!

jethro779 Loc: Tucson, AZ

My D7100 was a Nikon Refurb.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

I don't quite get the point of this article. The author knowingly bought a gray market D7000, only to find out that it was exactly that... a gray market D7000. However, the sticker apparently wasn't genuine or original. Not that the sticker really matters, as Nikon won't touch the camera anyway because of the gray market status. And the author already assumed it was gray market item at time of purchase. The only possibly "fake" thing about it is the sticker on the bottom, which has no actual impact on camera functionality anyway. The only lesson I can see here is not to buy gray market if you want to ensure that there is an original sticker on it. Then again, a non-gray market camera could theorically come tampered with a forged sticker also.