Personally, I go way back with Bailey's, starting from my location in N. California, on up to the last sixteen years at my current residence in Asia. I must have purchased twenty Huskys from Laytonville, to supply the crews that I work with. Always excellent service, I have become friends with the some of the people at the Laytonville location, though we have never met in person. As to purchasing saws from them and having them shipped to me, up until now, (I was told based on the long relationship) they have continued to supply the goods, I believe well beyond a point where Husky no longer approved of sending saws here. Pro model saws when purchased from a dealer here, are generally in the range of double the price, compared to Baileys. A lot of people pushing papers get a piece of the action, an old way of doing things in this region, the price goes way up. Husky wants to protect their dealers in Asia from people who can read and write English, and go online. I'll go along with that from time to time and purchase a fifteen dollar gas cap from a shop here, when I don't want to bother ordering from the states.
I want to order three Husky's currently, but it can't happen in the current mode, I've been informed. I'm really bummed by the present arrangement, have to go tell the boys that their new saws that I offered to get them won't be coming. These are folks who put food on the table by knocking down trees, and in some cases it is just cost prohibitive to purchase the saws here. I'm really grateful for the relationship with Baileys up to this point, lots of logs have been loaded on trucks. I hope that we can in the not too distant future get back to the OLD ordering relationship that has been so productive, from my perspective at least.