A purchasing Question.

[Tommo1965]

quite often B&H offer a grey market alternative so they can ship to country's where the official import lens cant be sent because of marketing agreements with the suppliers , on occasions I put a Nikon product in my cart only to have it knocked back when asked to ship here...but the grey market alternative can be posted to Aus...

[roastman]

Thanks Steve

I was not aware of that. I have used BH Photo a lot, but mainly for stuff such as tripods and accessories etc. They are really good to deal with. They always ship quickly, but even better, a tripod head I ordered never arrived (despite is showing as delivered by the freighter) and they sent another within 24 hours of being advised.

[Bennymiata]

Try and buy Adobe stuff off B&H and giving an Austrlalian address.
They won't ship it too you as Adobe want you to spend twice as much and buy it locally.

[roastman]

We get around it by using Shipito. You get a local address and they combine your packages to get the best freight prices. This works really well with stuff that qualifies for free shipping in the USA (mostly Amazon), but some packages are cheaper shipping directly to Oz.

[macdog]

Careful of that Mack warranty, Theres tonnes of posts about them being super dodgey and not accepting warranties etc etc and also taking up to 3 months to even get the item back

[Arg]

People don't make 'counterfeit' lenses, as far as I know.

Unless you consider that is what Sigma, Tamron and Zeiss do!

[Speedway]

Try and buy Adobe stuff off B&H and giving an Austrlalian address.
They won't ship it too you as Adobe want you to spend twice as much and buy it locally.

I ordered my copy of Adobe PS Elements 10 + Premier Elements 10 from them and they shipped them here, no problems. Way cheaper than from the Aus store too.
Keith.

[Bennymiata]

I tired to get an Adobe suite off them and they told me that they weren't allowed to ship it to Australia.

[Eberbachl]

People don't make 'counterfeit' lenses, as far as I know.

Unless you consider that is what Sigma, Tamron and Zeiss do!

Sure they do. I've seen numerous examples of them sitting side by side the real thing whilst working in China.