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question about grey market

A grey market happens when a product is intended for sale in one area, and is then shipped to and sold in another area.

When companies ship there products all over the world, they often charge different prices for their products depending on the current market situation in a given area. Taxes, shipping fees, and exchange rates all have an impact on the final cost of a product.

SO, long story short we have grey markets because person A in country B can buy product X for Z dollars, and sell it to person C in country D for Z+Y dollars, where Z+Y is still less then the retail price for product X in country D.
 
A store in toronto is reported of selling grey market products and not honoring their warranty agreements. When the customers shipped the motherboard back to gigabyte it wasn't accepted for rma because gigabyte says that it's a grey market product. How can I reconize the grey market product if a store is selling it to me? if I buy from monarch computer in america is that a grey market because I'm not in the same country?
 
Sometimes you can?t recognize grey market products, for example maybe Coke. If Coke just made one type of packaging and can for its Coke drink and shipped it all over the world, if would be very hard if not impossible to tell if it was a grey market product.

On the other hand, sometimes you can tell if a product is a grey market item. For example let us use Coke again. Say you bought a six pack of coke for a local store in your home town, but the Coke you bought didn?t have the normal packaging with it, and everything was printed in a foreign language, that is generally a pretty good indication that it is a grey market product. Not to say you couldn?t import things from a foreign country legally, like from monarch computer, that is not a grey market.

Another clue as to if something is a grey market item is if it is cheaper then it should be. And some items, like DVDs are only encoded to work in certain countries DVD players, in an effort to stop a grey market from happening.

I hope this helps at least somewhat, what I am saying is really just general information about grey markets, there is more too it, but at least it?s a start.
 
If you ship a grey market product in for rma how does the company know that it's a grey market product?
 
"Grey Markey" is an excuse for companies to develop products with sometimes simply cosmetic changes and pretend they have a different price policy. In an ideal situation, you make it, you are responsible for it, regardless where it ends up... if I live over several years in Europe, Asia and North America, why are yu too damn lazy to offer me warranty regardless of my current location?

If enough people refuse to accept this artificially-created difference, the world would become a better place for consumers. It is well within my rights to buy whatever I like from wherever I damn please, and go wherever I like with it.
 
If I get tested combo at monarch computer then will they ship the opened boxes to me as well? I need those for rma if the product is defective.
 
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