Why is Taobao camera so cheap?

Taobao is very reliable, but the price is not cheap.

Electronic digital products, especially SLR, are also quite transparent, including second-hand SLR. At the same time, the prices of similar products are very transparent.

Much cheaper ones are generally unreliable.

Hong Kong parallel imports pass off as genuine products from the Mainland,

A brand-new second mobile phone impersonates a new one.

The prototype and the experience machine pretend to be new machines.

Refurbishers pretend to be new machines, etc. Which ones are good,

Some of them are simply cheating.

In addition, the price of Canon 6D stand-alone (without lens) today should be between 8700 and 9000 yuan. The price of new parallel imports in Hong Kong is around 7200 to 7500 yuan.

Really parallel imports from Hong Kong, the camera itself is exactly the same as the genuine licensed products in the Mainland, because Hong Kong is duty-free, and the cheap price is the tax money collected from the Mainland. "Parallel imports" are smuggled into the mainland without paying taxes. Before the reform and opening up, this was called smuggling and speculation. Nobody cares now, and parallel imports are prevalent. There are reliable merchants, Japanese SLR cameras and lenses, and parallel imports can also be bought, but they can't enjoy Canon's warranty. At most, the merchant who sold it to you promised you.

Many old photographers who play with equipment buy parallel imports because they don't want to play. When they sell second-hand, they only look at the quality, whether it is licensed or parallel, and they lose less money.