I notice in one of your other responses that the Nikon shipped to the US will be different from the one shipped to Canada (Exterior Colour). Will there be any other differences? I would also like to get a firm price on what the camera will sell for on the Canadian market. It always seems odd to me that the Canadian price is always more (usually by 10 to 20%) than taking a US price, calculating the dollar difference and adding the duty. I think that those of us north of the border are getting ripped off. Most US suppliers won't ship outside the US and those that will tell us that the Nikon warranty won't apply in Canada - why not - isn't the parent company (Nikon Japan) ultimately responsible for standing behind there product no matter where it is sold?

Although I am a great supporter of keeping local businesses in business I also would like to have the option of saving a few hundred dollars. I guess Nikon is not covered under NAFTA!

-- Gerry Parrott (gerry.parrott@home.com), March 23, 2000

Answers

Nikon Canada services, sells and supports Nikon products in Canada. They set the price and employ their service and support staffs and pay them in Canadian dollars. They are a wholly owned subsidiary-but they do, like Nikon Inc. (USA) act independently of Nikon Corporation, Japan in terms of these actions.

Each world-wide Nikon subsidiary must provide the service and support for any product-it is a cost owned by that subsidiary-not Nikon Corporation Japan, and thus this is just one factor in the price. Obviously labour costs vary around the world. Sorry it doesn't translate but you have a team of Nikon Canada behind your product. Michael

-- Mike Rubin, Product Marketing Manager, Nikon Inc. (web@imaging-resource.com), March 23, 2000.

If sony did not exploit and squeeze dollars out of canadians to the greatest extent possible they'd be doing their shareholders a disservice. Sit back and enjoy terrance and phillip on southpar

-- benoit (foo@bar.com), March 24, 2000.