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If anyone is being argumentative it's you - for what reason I have no idea. I've been doing nothing but trying to get you to understand what gray market is and it's not working. The seller has absolutely no bearing on whether an item is gray market or not - only the distribution channel through which the product was acquired.Note I said 3rd party and not authorized reseller or distributor .......Sigh...You're being argumentative for no other reason than to argue. A 3rd party selling an item without buying from the proper distribution channels is gray market. Let's stop getting into semantics.
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1 - B&H Photo is an authorized Nikon reseller (among many others).
2 - B&H Photo sells through Amazon (among other outlets) making them a 3rd party seller.
3 - B&H Photo sells directly through their own site and brick and mortar locations making them a 2nd party seller.
3 - B&H Photo sells both USA warranted and gray market versions of the exact same product. Thus they are an authorized (2nd or 3rd party) reseller selling gray market items.
...Here's a definition to Gray Market.
A grey market is a market in which goods have been manufactured by or with the consent of the brand owner but are sold outside of the brand owner's approved distribution channels—an activity that can be perfectly legal.
I know what a gray market item is - I've already posted multiple definitions for you (which I've read).
You're the one that keeps insisting on including the seller in the definition - "Note I said 3rd party and not authorized reseller or distributor" - (except for this most recent uncited attempt, which is the closest you've come to being correct in this entire thread) and the seller has absolutely no bearing on whether or not an item is gray market.