I buy alot of greymarket video and camera gear from those dealers that you see from NY. Most you see are those strickly mailorder ads in Magazines. Most are located in Brooklyn Ny, by the shipping piers. I went to alot of these
middle of no where hole in the walls, where they do not allow customers go (find to their Secret locations (but wad of cash in hand, makes them very weak, lol). You can get brand new gear, with a third party warentee" Being aware it's grey, but new, I am aware if the product fails, or needs repair, I will take a loss. so this if figured in to the "SAVINGS". Being that I always had very good luck with Electronics, Warentee on such never bothered me.
I did however had a Canon lens go to crap, costed me about $450, I just threw it a way. with high End Audio gear, I am carefull with, usually on a purchase, I will obtain Serial numbers, and contact the manufacture yo find status of warentee, and it is legit, before purchasing. It is Buyer beware, before purchasing ANY product used or New, do some research on the item, First step it to ask seller for a serial number, their way of a responce will give you a good insight what your dealing with....
Could be worse, the Player could be on a Hot list, then you would of taken a really good loss. As the player would of been returned to the rightful owner..... check out Tag McLaren site!
http://www.tagmclaren.com/great/sounds.asp
So look at the bright side, you still have a player!