As Pogo said, We has met the enemy and he is us! Any moronic company that has a chinese company manufacture something or any component of something for them deserves what happens because it is clearly spelled out in chinese law! If a chinese company manufactures anything or any part of anything, when the contract ends for any reason the chinese company is entitled to keep making the item and use the other people's brand name! If they make a component they can now make the complete item! If you wonder how far they take that, simply look at the chinese ford and chevy pick-up trucks made in china. They do rebrand these but use very similar logos and such. Another thing, manufacturing anything in china is giving them the technology. We can't manufacture serious military stuff there although we do in japan. However, we can have major components of civil aviation airplanes manufactured there. Some of those airplanes used some advanced materials and techniques known only to us and used in US fighter jets! Yep, we gave them our latest and greatest technology to make an extra buck! Same with electronics and such.
Technically the stuff that is manufactured by a chinese company after a contract ends and labeled with the original brand information can only be sold in china. However they can manufacture and label these things in legitimate factories right in front of God and man. Only when they leave china do they become illegal. The chinese government doesn't make real efforts to stop export, positive trade flow always welcomed!
We pay a very high price for saving a buck. Like it or not, every one of us buys some stuff made in china too. Sometimes it is the only choice, sometimes financial constraints lead to something needed for a one time job coming from there. I have to admit that if I am going to buy something from Taiwan I'm not going to pay $20,000 for it to say Bridgeport on the side of it instead of $4500 for it to say Jet. Neither one is equal to a pimple on the butt of my Bridgeport J-head that I owned that was the same age I was. The J-head was a light duty machine when built too.
If it wasn't for the shipping being equal to the sale price I have to admit I'd be tempted to buy one of the 105cc saws just to sit on the shelf. They make something to appeal to all of us. Not going to happen though. At over five hundred dollars sooner or later I'll be able to buy a real 100+cc saw and rebuild it. Then I'll have some pride in what's sitting on the shelf.
Hu