Originally Posted by
Raleighcopter
They can, and I have a couple. If you're worried that these are available for such a low price because they're grey market, I would suggest that Stihl should be manufacturing them in a more secure environment for their intellectual property than china where they are required to share that intellectual property and that if Stihl wants to stop the supply to the grey market they should consider manufacturing them in a more secure environment, like the USA.
Originally Posted by
1967brutus
not worried about that at all
Oh, I don't care where you acquired them either... The first one I got was from overseas, from some vendor that had a hand drawn paper sign, STIHL Parts Department " Back Door Sale "
... the piracy, just raises the retail counter prices to compensate for their losses... its the MFG'er's fault for dealing with these overseas companies.