[Rizzer] “I was informed that some of them were made over seas with less quality parts.”
That’s a lie. If you had asked to buy one of these ‘lesser quality’ cameras, they would have refused to sell it to you. They might have said it was out of stock, or something like that. But in reality, they were never in stock in the 1st place, because Cannon didn’t make them.
Another popular scam is to ‘break’ the box- they advertise the camera at a very low price, but when you call, they tell you that it doesn’t include such standard accouterments as the battery, charger, lens cap, hood, etc, which they then sell you piecemeal at greatly inflated prices. Instead of saving, you pay more. If you ask to buy the camera alone, without the ‘extras’, they will refuse to sell it to you.
After all this, they then charge you something like $100 for shipping, which will turn out to be plain old UPS, Fed Ex ground or US Mail that cost them $8-15.
Good luck, and let the buyer beware.
Arnie
https://www.arniepix.com