From what I understand Richard the guy that sells them on eBay is not an authorized distributor or dealer for VQ/Morris. In fact they don't know where he get's his models from (I'm guessing that it's probably some gray market importing that he's doing). In any case from what I understand his models are quite a bit older (they don't come with pre-installed retracts which all current VQ come with), so the quality is not quite up to the current models. Be wary.