I know this can be quite an emotive topic and elicits strong opinions, but it's quite an elephant in the room of several interests of mine (cameras and watches especially). It was brought to mind last night as I had a look at the Nikon Z50, Z5 and Z6 in a Nikon authorised dealer. The dealer was very helpful and didn't try and pressure me into buying or anything, so I do not want to criticise them. However, one of the things they said was I should only buy Nikon from an authorized dealer in Singapore because not only would Nikon Singapore refuse to support warranty claims on a grey market model, they also refuse to offer any support at all, even chargeable work. I then asked a question - I spend a lot of time in Indonesia, and at some point may move back to England, what happens if I need warranty support or a repair overseas if I buy from an AD in Singapore? This is where it got interesting, as the guy seemed pretty straight in saying "it depends", he said that if I have a stamped warranty card from an AD in any country the local Nikon distributor should offer support and certainly do chargeable work, but that some of them can be very awkward about even that case and that he has had a lot of customer complaints from people who have either bought Nikon gear while travelling or who have moved to Singapore from overseas and met very frosty responses from Nikon Singapore if contacting them. Now I fully understand Nikon distributors not providing warranty support to gear sold by non-ADs (though it begs the question of how gear ends up with grey market sellers), and if they want to extend that to not offering any support then that's their decision, but it strikes me that the Nikon policy in the case of someone in my position is actually a reason to buy grey market and save money if they are also going to be precious about gear sold by overseas ADs, am I missing something here? If I buy a Nikon camera from an AD here and am then treated as a grey market outcast by any other Nikon distributors what is the point of buying from an AD if there is a good probability I may need support overseas?