I don't believe the items on MD are grey market.
"Believe" means that you do not, in fact, know, but are speculating.
I have stated before I know of several cases that have indeed been grey market. Facts trump opinion.
I have also very clearly (and repeatedly) stated that there are MDs where they do work with the manufacture. In fact, in the same post you replied to I not only made that point, but encouraged people to jump on the MD for JyARz.
That being said, just because this one is legit or you offer personal anecdotal examples do not make that universal.
We have had a few cases where people here only found out after their purchase that it was through an unauthorized sales channel and the warrantee was not valid. (And at least one case where it was unauthorized, but the manufacture make the decision to not invalidate the warrantee.) Massdrop's response was "Oh, it's covered by a *MassDrop* Warrantee", a point that NOWHERE was made clear before the sale. Of course this means, if they do "honor" their own warrantee, they have to source another grey market unit, which might be difficult as the distributor they were dealing with has already been caught in violation.
So it pays to check out any MD first, rather than just believe that everything is above board.
Now go buy some JyARz!
Arizer Solo is up for $124.99
PIU= puff it up? $120? I see it there with a discount code for $160.I am starting to not understand Massdrop .
I never see anything on here that I cant get a better deal on just by searching most of the time .
I got my Solo for $120 from PIU .
And (off topic ) usually the headphone prices are retail prices some times more.
Maybe its just me ? I can accept that .
PIU= puff it up? $120? I see it there with a discount code for $160.
PIU= puff it up? $120? I see it there with a discount code for $160.
I didn't know about the price match deal. Yeah I'm generally kind of a cranky skeptic.
That's cool. And I definitely have no particular loyalty to MD I just want to pay the lowest price possible (without being "too go to be true" and bogus) I did get my Solo from MD and a Simba Matrix bong as well.
I just got in on my first MD and was quite satisfied.
It was important to me that I knew who the retailer was through FC, and that he is active in the community.
Knowing and already having several of his products, I was very confident that I new exactly what I was getting; the quality was exactly as I expected.
The deal I refer to was Jyarz, and if one is buying just a Satchmo and one Classic, then it was a better deal than buying direct.... However, if you have the funds to buy direct then Aldo offers some great deals direct by offering discount on multiple items. Either way it was a win for me on Massdrop, as I typically only buy Jyarz one or two at a time.
Thanks for the update, will check it out!