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<p>You may as well buy it used with some or no warranty coverage.</p>
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<p>Actually, the Japanese price I'm getting is almost the cost of what this lens goes for 2nd hand in my country, so it's like I'm getting a 2nd hand priced lens in immaculate condition, with the ability to send it back to Japan by post to get warranty coverage if ever it fails. And this particular lens -- the 10-18 zoom -- hardly ever appears on ebay in my country.</p>