This is a bit hypocritical... as we all know it.
What if you totally accidentally 😉 moved to another country to live there? Or if you have an extended contract in another country and your original Canon camera, which you brought with you, broke and needs quick repair?
And what about when you just pay the repair as a regular customer? Canon would still refuse to repair their own product? Ask yourself this question: Why would a business refuse to repair an item when a customer is willing to pay for it, be it grey market or not? This would be beyond my understanding... unless you are so bold to literally punish the average Joe who bought your very product on the grey market. Wouldn't it be better to punish the grey market itself instead of the persons who love and want to own your product and still want to save some cash?
In the end, you own an original Canon equipment designed, developed, and made in Japan... just bought somewhere else. In the end, some of the revenue still goes to Canon HQ in Japan anyway, and the statistics with the sales numbers, too... but there Canon (as well as every other camera manufacturer) makes no differentiation between licensed partner sales and grey market sales... they are all very welcome, aren't they? Especially when you want to shine and communicate figures like market share and revenue. That's where the hypocrisy lies in the end.
I bought most of my Canon EOS bodies at Canon itself or at a licensed partner, but nearly all of my lenses I bought on the grey market. The price difference is just too sweet to be ignored.
