Oh, sorry. But why would you buy new? Presumably the warranty would only be valid in the country in which it was sold? Not sure. Even if you could save a few hundred dollars, I would say it's not worth it. I remember back in the day, foreign photographers and video people used to fly to NYC for a "vacation," buy a ton of new equipment from NYC camera shops to avoid extremely high home country taxes, and then fly back with it telling the home country that it was "personal equipment." Now that was saving money.