I guess my attempt at humor and sarcasm fell well short of the target.

The phone number is there. Give them a call and report back. Seriously. I double dog dare you. 😋

Me too. Worth every cent of my friends rental fee on Netflix. 😎

Yes, by pulling your lungs out of your chest….through your left nostril. Have you seen the movie? What did you think if you did see it.

People get all excited because former president Trump demands the nato members pay at least partially for the cost of their defense
People get all excited because current president says “hkdbirhxuhb.”
Go figure.

Watched “The Bee Keeper” last night. The movie starts out with scammers who empty the entire life savings of a retired woman, a friend of Jason Stratham, a beekeeper. If you are violence averse you will hate it but if you know Jason’s work you know what to expect and may find it exciting. Even my wife who hates violence in films liked it.

I would assume the interest rate for home loans has a negative impact on the housing. My grandson bought a house two years ago but couldn’t make the payments if he bought it today. Our housing prices are bargains compared to the east side of Washington and even here $300k buys a modest tract house, 100 k would be nearly uninhabitable. It is said that the economy is bad if you feel the economy is bad. Most ( more than half) people feel it’s bad right now.

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Why didn’t you use it? It is a spectacular piece of mechanical technology. If I had the$$$.

Lies, damned lies and statistics is an age old axiom. P.S. Look at the stock market today if you want your day ruined.

The decision by Nikon USA is a business decision. The business makes its income by selling you a camera. If somebody else sells you the camera they don’t get the income. In order to protect their income they have a carrot/stick proposition. Buy from us and we offer a warranty as the carrot. Buy from an overseas supplier our stick is that you have to send it overseas to fix it. Remember when you bought your camera and had to decide which language to utilize? If the USA models were different than offshore you wouldn’t need that. If you can show me an example of differences other than model naming I will be shocked.
So why are grey market cheaper? A number of reason like exchange rates, volume discounts, lower profit margin expectations. I bought my Canon F-1 in the early 70’s from Universal Suppliers in Hong Kong. Paid a little less than US model but at that time a few $$ made a difference. If memory serves it was about $411.00 with shipping for a Pro grade 35mm SLR and 50mm f:1.8. All mechanical and tough as a tank. Not much to break. Now a semi pro grade camera with lens is north of $4,000 and while very robust there is a lot that can go wrong. The warranty is very valuable now and only the buyer can decide if the risk of buying gray market non US warranty vs warranty with a little extra in the price, is worth the peace of mind.

RCW 9A.36.080. Class C felony. I suppose I should have cited it rather than try to explain by analogy. I do understand your point. Section 2927.12 of the Ohio Revised Code is the cite for your state. Both jurisdictions have a legislative body, elected by vote of the people. They studied a perceived problem and wrote a law, probably after robust debate.

You should have slapped them silly before you put them in the cabs.

The subject of the post was about buying a medium format TLR. they are no longer produced new as far as I know. Everything I’ve read would indicate the new gray market cameras are the same as USA models but that some distributors (eg; Nikon USA) won’t repair cameras that they didn’t import. I’ve never seen anything that indicates the non US models are different in any functional way. I’m pretty sure that they don’t have 1 assembly line for US models and one for the rest of the world. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

After talking with a friend who teaches statistics and economics to college kids I am firmly in the “I don’t trust the government inflation figures.” It’s a shelll game.