Originally posted by pxpaulx That is definitely your perogative! I've never had a bad experience with a manufacturer refurbished camera. At any rate I picked up my d600 when they were running the specials before christmas - $2K included the 24-85mm kit lens (value $250-300), nikon external mic (another $100) and the swivi camera lcd loupe that I sold for about $80, all that and I got $90 back in adorama store credit...so it was a better deal than the current refurbished one anyway!
I got a refurbished Pentax K20D and image sensor had line in it, I got it on ebay, I returned it and they refund me for shipping and send me another and never had issue since.
New things can come with flaws as well so it's 50/50 only thing is you get longer warranty on new than refurbished.
In the UK they don't have 1 year warranties like here in USA they have 2 or 3 year Warranties. So really unless I lived in UK it's not all that worth it buying it new, because if you get it used it likely work for a year.