Well I suppose you're right. He's not trying to hide that it's not genuine. But doesn't that violate some kind of trademark or copyright? Not only the color scheme but the design of the parts as well as the MS prefix on the model number? I don't know how picky they get but I can't believe Stihl doesn't take these ducks out of the water for making a physically identical copy.
I am not an IP lawyer or expert at all. all I can say is people buy aftermarket made to fit and be near/the same as parts for ..man, tons of stuff, every day. If you bought an AM say husky clutch cover, and it was orange, is that cool? Say it was made to fit like a 372xp, and they called it a lucky dragon 372 part..is that cool?? Looks at the variety of piston and cylinder kits sold around here, that aren't branded OEM.... or the popularity of the red earthquake max cheap clones....
It's the whole saw, but they aren't claiming it is a stihl.
As to nation X being scumbag copiers, that's stones and glass houses, read up on the history of the USA as regards european inventions/manufactured items and books, in the olden days.
And as to "buy american" and stuff like that, that horse long ago left the burning stable.
ya it sucks....I am old enough to remember when 95% or better of everything you saw for sale was made here. but..I looked on ebay, no time machines out there yet.
I personally lost factory jobs when they were shipped overseas, after it happened more than once, I just accepted reality, that this was billionaire globalist wall street and their bought and paid for "parties" in governments decision and doings and actions, and there wasn't a single dang thing anyone was gonna do or "vote" for that was going to change that reality. They decided they were gonna go way out of their way to have china make everything on the planet, and sell it back to us for printed up pieces of paper (a very smooth con actually...), and do that as long as they could get away with it, which is so far, up until now..but I don't think that will last forever either....then the day of pauperism reckoning will hit..and hard.....
Now I am not gonna run out and order one of these clone copy saws, absolutely zero interest, but I also cannot dis someone who does, either, as long as they don't try to lie and flip it as the genuine like made in germany or whatever article.
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