I personally never felt the need to shop outside of BHPhoto.com, KEH.com, and Adorama.com, all 3 very good complete online retailers (also newegg, but never for imaging gear exc CF cards). Of course, my preferred choice is my local shop, but they don't have everything . I remember long ago seeing a $500 camera for $250 on a website (Minolta A200, back when it was $500), I sent an email to the 'contact us' people saying 'Hey, whats up with this??", never got a response, but that was when I learned about the whole gray market scamming stuff. Glad I didn't get it!