A few years back I needed a chain saw and was pointed to a fellow that worked with me and told that he sold chain saws cheap. Well last thing I wanted was a saw that was "cheap" but sure would like an inexpensive saw that was not cheap. I asked him what kind of saws he sold and he replied Husky and John Deere. I said forget the Deers but what about a Husky? He stated he could not guarantee what models he could still get but he would see. He brought in a 55, 61, 272XP and 372XP.....All in the box brand new along with all the warranty paperwork etc........The prices were $150 for the 55, $175 for the 61, $200 for the 272XP and $250 for the 372. I bought the 372 and also the 272 and told him to hold the 55 for me for a week and I would take that too. Then he said that if any warranty work needed to be done to let him know, and he would handle it, and not to send in the waranty paperwork to Husky, as these saws were mainly out the back door sales, no tax etc etc and steeply discounted.......
it was not until I got the saws home and into use that I noticed that the tags with the serial numbers on them were missing, so there was no possible way to register the saws anyhow............I did buy that 55 later on, and this fella sold a heap more saws later on over the years. I find it rather impossible that they would have been stolen, as he sold just too many of them, and if some frieind of his was taking inventopry out the back door to sell and steal there was far too many saws sold over time that the business would have noticed for usre its inventory getting low. So why were these saws sold like this.........I sitll think why so cheap. I can see in a way some of the saws (272XP) was then obsolete so perhaps it was easy to disocount it, but the 372 is still made.........was the dealer possibly behind this and just trying to push Husky saws, or was it a JD dealer told to dump "other" company products or loose the JD dealership? I just do not think they were what I would say were stolen items........so what could have been the reasoning for such low prices behind them.