Nikon 70-200vrii. To buy or not to buy in Tenerife???

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Just been offered a 70-200mm vrii at £300.00 less than the cheapest price quoted in England. This looks to be genuine! I can get a vr I for £1100 new as well. What do you guys think? Should I, or shouldn't I? I hasten to add, these lenses are from a proper retailer, not the run of the mill tourist shops full of rubbish out here. How would I stand with warrantee, especially as I'm thinking of bashing the visa card buying it???
 
wilko said:
Just been offered a 70-200mm vrii at £300.00 less than the cheapest price quoted in England. This looks to be genuine! I can get a vr I for £1100 new as well. What do you guys think? Should I, or shouldn't I? I hasten to add, these lenses are from a proper retailer, not the run of the mill tourist shops full of rubbish out here. How would I stand with warrantee, especially as I'm thinking of bashing the visa card buying it???
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Personally i wouldnt risk it :)
 
Is te saving enough to fund a return trip to Teneriffe to get any problems sorted ID there are any? If so and you can afford the price and potential return trip cost, why not? You may even end up with an extra few days' holiday!
 
Nikon lens warranties are international - camera body warranties are not. You should have no problems - provided you get it back to the UK without paying tax or VAT.
 
wilko said:
I hasten to add, these lenses are from a proper retailer, not the run of the mill tourist shops full of rubbish out here.
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If you are referring to the branch of Jessops out there, they are not genuine and in no way connected to jessops here in the UK.
You've been warned!
 
From what I can gather the 'Jessops' in Tenerife has now been closed after complaints from Jessops UK......the sentiment stands though....just be careful.
 
I didn't think Tenerife was EU.... I'm sure there was no duty on cigarettes and the like?
 
Hmmm...you know...you are right! It is part of Spain but according tp HMRC for tax purposes it does not come under the EU....I stand corrected :$
 
I have just checked the warranty card that comes with these lenses and it has stamped on the warranty booklet on all the copies through it, Nikon Europe B.V. It has the serial number etc on it. I need your help, guys.
 
So in that case, yes! Tenerife is a Spanish island. Much the same as jersey is part of the uk, but not mentioned in the warranty card? Tenerife is a tax free island from what I have been told.
 
lenses very rarely go wrong needing warranty attention anyway!
 
I'd risk it. I bought a 200-400mm from the states. No problems at all. The vrII is a superb lens. Buy it now.
God I do love spending other peoples money. :D



Kev.
 
neilos100 said:
Should be no problem as its in the EU, being part of Spain.
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Tenerife may be a Spanish dependency however it isn't part of the EU and at the time I was planning to buy a watch out there (back when the exchange rate was far more favourable than it it is now) the "tax-fee" price was £300 more than the UK retail and you'd still have VAT etc to pay on import (or risk forefeiture if you get caught trying to smuggle it in), so I'd be very wary of any high-value "bargains"
 
Rough Edges said:
You have never had a problem like I have with a Sigma lens then.. four attempts to put a new morotor in and said it was fixed once and for all.. It had to go straight back... More like a homing pigeon than a lens......
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I was thinking of Nikon lenses! ;)
 
The lens works out to be 1295 in English money if I buy it. That can't be bad? I know you can get remanufactured lenses on fleabay for 1350 but this is not remanufactured. This is new. I read the link, and camera bodies appear to have localised nikon warranties but lenses appear to have an international warranty???
 
I don't know if Nikon are the same as Sigma, but the latter require proof that UK VAT/duty has been paid before they will undertake any work under warranty....
 
Well i'm back in the uk, and now the proud owner of a 70-200mm VRII i got it at a very good price, i called the Nikon helpline and they confirmed that the lens is indeed covered under warrantee in this country, even though it was purchased in Tenerife, and i got through customs with no problems at all. nice little result.
 
Of course you paid the VAT on import to help out our economy? :suspect:

:lol:
 
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