Takeereasy
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Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, work let me go an hour or two early today. I cut my tounge and when it was done bleeding it started swelling and hurt like an sob and made me talk wierd and drool. Fan-f'n-tastic day. (if you must know I had a nail in my mouth while holding up my bosses new gate for him to drill into a post when his wife opened the door directly behind me and drove my face into the board dirctly in front of me, only a small scrape and I'm fine but they felt horrible and told me to go get it looked at) I almost missed poker night tonight. With how fast I lost I should have stayed home. Oh well, won last week.
Anyways to your question. The answer is it really depends. Marantz products have a universal warranty that I've been told by someone at Marantz Canada will be valid up here. Most Canadian arms of American companies will not honour American warranties and that is a big factor for me as the Marantz has a three year warranty. Marantz used to be distributed by Lenbrook up north where we are, same guys who distribute NAD and PSB. I don't know for sure now who does what, but there is now a Canadian Marantz website.
That said I'm saving about $1000 on the receiver, so unless some incredible $1100 catastrophy occurs then it may well have been worth it to buy this guy without a warranty and take my chances with a failure. Another thing to watch out for is if it's possible for you to visit Washington then you can get your products delivered to your Aunts and pick them up and drive them home. That can be good because often times shipping, even for really heavy stuff, within the US is free while they charge a butload to ship to us. If you were to get 100lb speakers shipped from Say Florida to BC it could cost you $100 US or more to ship them, but they may be free to get shipped to Washington. Yeah, ya still gotta pay GST and PST at the border but there is no disbursment fee or brokerage fee and electronics manufactured in the US are entitled to a duty break that you can get at the border but you won't be able to explain that to the UPS delivery guy who doesn't know and doesn't care about your exemptions. Savings here can be pretty big believe it or not.
For myself I wouldn't buy a sophisticated electronics devie without a warranty for more than half the sticker cost delivered. But just look at some of the sites out there in the US. Take Ubid.com. That's where I got my receiver. Right now they have a Denon 2105 refurb on with a 90 day warranty. They are selling it for $358 us. By the time you get that shipped to your Aunt's and then to you you're lookingat maybe $650 CAD tops after all taxes and import fees. That receiver has an MSRP of $1100 Cad which works out to $1265 after our lovely tax. thats a savings of over $600, Let's say that a local dealer will sell you one for 25% off MSRP. That still comes to over $1000 after taxes and you'll still save at least $350. Now you don't have a warranty though, but is that warranty worth $350, and can you get a 25% discount? I guess it's really a numbers game. Many would take the odds.
Sorry if I'm rambling on, I had to take a couple of pills for the mouth. It tore open when I ate diner. I hope I was helpful in there somewhere though.
Anyways to your question. The answer is it really depends. Marantz products have a universal warranty that I've been told by someone at Marantz Canada will be valid up here. Most Canadian arms of American companies will not honour American warranties and that is a big factor for me as the Marantz has a three year warranty. Marantz used to be distributed by Lenbrook up north where we are, same guys who distribute NAD and PSB. I don't know for sure now who does what, but there is now a Canadian Marantz website.
That said I'm saving about $1000 on the receiver, so unless some incredible $1100 catastrophy occurs then it may well have been worth it to buy this guy without a warranty and take my chances with a failure. Another thing to watch out for is if it's possible for you to visit Washington then you can get your products delivered to your Aunts and pick them up and drive them home. That can be good because often times shipping, even for really heavy stuff, within the US is free while they charge a butload to ship to us. If you were to get 100lb speakers shipped from Say Florida to BC it could cost you $100 US or more to ship them, but they may be free to get shipped to Washington. Yeah, ya still gotta pay GST and PST at the border but there is no disbursment fee or brokerage fee and electronics manufactured in the US are entitled to a duty break that you can get at the border but you won't be able to explain that to the UPS delivery guy who doesn't know and doesn't care about your exemptions. Savings here can be pretty big believe it or not.
For myself I wouldn't buy a sophisticated electronics devie without a warranty for more than half the sticker cost delivered. But just look at some of the sites out there in the US. Take Ubid.com. That's where I got my receiver. Right now they have a Denon 2105 refurb on with a 90 day warranty. They are selling it for $358 us. By the time you get that shipped to your Aunt's and then to you you're lookingat maybe $650 CAD tops after all taxes and import fees. That receiver has an MSRP of $1100 Cad which works out to $1265 after our lovely tax. thats a savings of over $600, Let's say that a local dealer will sell you one for 25% off MSRP. That still comes to over $1000 after taxes and you'll still save at least $350. Now you don't have a warranty though, but is that warranty worth $350, and can you get a 25% discount? I guess it's really a numbers game. Many would take the odds.
Sorry if I'm rambling on, I had to take a couple of pills for the mouth. It tore open when I ate diner. I hope I was helpful in there somewhere though.
