Nikon Gear 30% off Sale Bootic

Quote from Gosh : Sale is over. It was one day deal.

So you ordered yesterday and received your order today? Hmmm....

Quote from flacoramos : So you ordered yesterday and received your order today? Hmmm....

Very first post - "...Recently, on Valentine's Day they had another 30% sale on all major photo brands. Got few lenses and next day they were shipped with tracking numbers..."

Is there a coupon code? I am not seeing sale prices. Both the Nikon 50mm 1.4G and 85mm 1.8G are alot more expensive then B&H right now.

Quote from Gosh : That's called paranoia

It's not paranoia. Nikon DOES NOT allow authorized retailers to charge under the MAP for their items. So there are a few possibilities: 1) These are gray market items 2) These are stolen items 3) These are legitimate, Nikon USA items, and the vendor is violating Nikon's policies

Basically, you're hoping it's #3, since that works out best for the buyer. If it is #3 though, the dealer will not be an authorized Nikon dealer for much longer, since Nikon doesn't take too kindly to their policies being broken.

Quote from MyNameIsTooLong : It's not paranoia. Nikon DOES NOT allow authorized retailers to charge under the MAP for their items. So there are a few possibilities: 1) These are gray market items 2) These are stolen items 3) These are legitimate, Nikon USA items, and the vendor is violating Nikon's policies Basically, you're hoping it's #3, since that works out best for the buyer. If it is #3 though, the dealer will not be an authorized Nikon dealer for much longer, since Nikon doesn't take too kindly to their policies being broken.

there is defiantly something shady going on here. when i contacted bootic they said the lens would be dropped shipped directly from nikon. now people here and on the pentaxforums are getting the items from B&H with invoices with the name Eric Barbier on them. fishy.

B&H sells grey market lenses directly so why would they go through a 3rd party to sell them? B&H also makes a ton of sales and brings in a ton of cash so they would never risk their relationship with nikon to make a couple extra bucks by violating nikon's policies.

the op of this thread also seems way too defensive.

I got another reply from Bootic's customer service:

Hi Frank,

For this order, it will be Adorama

Best regards,
Barbara

So it appears these guys were ordering lenses from B&H and Adorama and then immediately re-selling them at a 30% loss. Interesting promotion. Can someone who bought something verify whether the price on the B&H or Adorama invoice is in fact 30% higher than the Bootic sale price?

Quote from p0gue : So it appears these guys were ordering lenses from B&H and Adorama and then immediately re-selling them at a 30% loss. Interesting promotion. Can someone who bought something verify whether the price on the B&H or Adorama invoice is in fact 30% higher than the Bootic sale price?

It's weird that the people who bought in on the deal are in such denial over what actually happened. That or they're busy frantically trying to cancel all the credit card numbers they just gave to thieves.

I'll give everyone here some advice: Nikon's prices are fixed. They will always be the same at every authorized dealer (give or take a few hours for promotional prices to be updated). When a vendor has a discount, all of them will, because it is authorized by Nikon. If you find a lower price at only 1 location for a Nikon item, it is either gray market, stolen, used, or refurbished.

Quote from MyNameIsTooLong : I'll give everyone here some advice: Nikon's prices are fixed. They will always be the same at every authorized dealer (give or take a few hours for promotional prices to be updated). When a vendor has a discount, all of them will, because it is authorized by Nikon. If you find a lower price at only 1 location for a Nikon item, it is either gray market, stolen, used, or refurbished.

So if there are reports that the items are not grey market and they come with the full manufacturers warranty, does that mean they are stolen?

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There is another possibility.

Nikon had a not very good quarter recently. Because of that, they are currently running a bunch of instant rebates on some of their popular lenses without camera purchase requirement - that is very rare for Nikon.

Now, it might also be possible that Nikon USA approved hush-hush sales under MAP for some of its biggest resellers such as B&H and Adorama. After all, Bootic rep stated to me that the sale was sourced from different official Nikon dealers in the US.

Quote from sav : There is another possibility. Nikon had a not very good quarter recently. Because of that, they are currently running a bunch of instant rebates on some of their popular lenses without camera purchase requirement - that is very rare for Nikon. Now, it might also be possible that Nikon USA approved hush-hush sales under MAP for some of its biggest resellers such as B&H and Adorama. After all, Bootic rep stated to me that the sale was sourced from different official Nikon dealers in the US.

I was giving general advice. You are apparently still focusing on bootic.com, and you don't seem to have realized that the deal in this thread was for stolen goods. The price on the receipts is even full retail, and in someone else's name. Are you that dense?

And no, Nikon would never do that. The entire purpose of the price controls was to help the smaller vendors (Nikon makes the same amount of money either way). When they need sales volume they introduce rebates - for ALL of their dealers.

Quote from ILiveOnWacker : So if there are reports that the items are not grey market and they come with the full manufacturers warranty, does that mean they are stolen?

Usually the vendor is just lying and they ARE gray market, but the vendor gives their own warranty and doesn't tell you it's through them. But yes, if they are boxed as Nikon USA and sold below the cost of any other vendor, they are either used, refurbished, stolen, or counterfeit (which I forgot to list before). In this case they're stolen. There is no way to get a legit Nikon USA warranty if the price is below Nikon's MAP.

So anyone that received lens can you confirm the price you paid the was amount on the invoice?
I used to work at a local stereo shop and the owner would sell item sideways all the time. It's kinda forced on by the vendors. There was no way a small shop could meet the minimums to keep a contract with so many different Vendors. If another shop wanted to sell alpine, jl audio, zapco, or any other brand they would just call us and we would sell them whatever they wanted at b cost to be sure and move enough product to be an authorized dealer. This could be something along those lines but seems more like a case of fraud to me.