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Except that the price from Apos (USA distributor) is the same amount, and the same shipping lead time. Apos would prefer you buy from their online website instead of Amazon; but vast majority of people start at Amazon and will never know (until too late) that they purchased from the wrong source.You are correct. I'm not sure that the average consumer is fully aware of the choices Amazon is offering them. However, a useful heuristic is that the cheapest offer (and perhaps the first offering) does NOT have local support and is a direct import. A second heuristic is the delay on delivery - if it's a few weeks, it's probably in a container on a ship.
IMHO, @TOPPING needs to own up for warranty repair in the USA* when purchased in the USA* from an authorized dealer; similar for Europe, MEA, ANZ, etc. regions. And if TOPPING continues to require warranty work be sent back to the authorized dealer you purchased from instead of just having a regional TOPPING service centers, then TOPPING needs to force their authorized distributor to stop selling in regions they are not able to support.
Also, work covered under product warranty is a defect from the manufacture. I shouldn't even be paying shipping to send defective product back in the first place.
*Edit: And Canada / Mexico for North America service coverage
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