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If you compare the recent Canon grey market versus US body prices, the gap is much smaller.
The incremental price on a Canon 6D body is $100, less than 10% incremental for a USA over grey market product. That is close enough that I would probably pay the $100 to get the kind of support that I receive from B&H, Adorama, etc. The price difference on the $4,000 professional Canon 1DX is about $300, less than 10%. I think a lot of pros would be willing to pay that for pro level support.
A 10% incremental on the D750 at $1,400 would put that at $1,540, a much more reasonable price. I would definitely go with a USA body at that price.
Canon has also traditionally serviced grey market bodies In the U.S. under warranty with no problem, although they don't officially say that they do this.
The bottom line is that Nikon can only go so far to create artificial barriers to support artificially inflated prices in the U.S. At least for savvy buyers. At almost $2,000, they are asking for a 40%+ premium for the "support" of Nikon USA.
I am sure that about 90%-95% of less sophisticated buyers will just pay US retail prices, unless Nikon continues to try to maintain unrealistic regional incremental pricing in a global marketplace. Eventually more and more buyers will decide that it is worth it to save $600.
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