Personally, I suggest buying it at the counter. Now the regular version of V9 is already very cheap, and the price of 1500 is estimated to be gone. It is not safe to buy parallel goods. There is a video of V8 disassembling on the Internet. This machine has been out for several years. Parallel imports are easy to buy refurbished machines and not much cheaper.
So I'd better buy licensed products, at least it's more reliable. I bought mine for more than a year, and nothing happened.