Digital SPG said:
...They had no UK warranty if you had a fault you had to send it back and then they sent it to the states for repair.
I bought my 300D on eBay from a seller in Hong Kong. The reciept he provided was hand-written and I had no warranty card at all inside the box.
A few months back it wouldn't switch on. I still managed to get Canon (UK) to repair it under warranty but I went to serious lengths. I included every bit of paperwork I had, together with bank statements showing the PayPal payment and the reciept from FedEx (I ended up having to pay import tax) and I included a detailed description of the transaction.
Motto - If you're nice, and you do everything you can to supply them with proof of purchase, they'll fix it. But it's still lots more hassle.
Moving onto the general topic of 7dayshop's Canon curtailing conundrum...
It's a great time in history to be a consumer. The web has brought unprecedented competition and no matter how many shops close there will
always be someone out there selling what you want cheaper than most other people. You just have to find them. Google, Froogle and eBay are all your friends when it comes to hunting down what you want.
The file-sharing issue is a good example... Along came napster. After a few years 'they' (corporate pressure) managed to close it. Up springs Kazaa. After a few years they finally closed that too. By which time BitTorrent was going strong. After a couple of years they managed to start closing the bigger BitTorrent sites. Now eDonkey is growing and BitTorrent is still around.
Don't worry about it. Be flexible and don't get too attached to anything on the web. Love it while it's there but accept that it'll be gone one day. Probably when you hadn't prepared for it but that's life.
The next great batch of bargains are just around the corner.