ORIGINAL: Gordon Mc
ORIGINAL: wojtek
nice to see people so quick and willing to buy ILLEGAL RIP OFFS !!! SM used to contract Spak ( a factory) to build their planes .. Spark never owned the moulds or designs. Buying one of these fraudulently produced kits supports Chinese FRAUD !!!
... and just how do you know that these are in fact fraudulently produced kits ?
Now, you never quite know where the truth lies when it comes to stuff like this, but here's the (possibly true, possibly not) story that I heard: When SM decided to start their own factory they did not pay Spark for any of the kits & components that had already been produced and were still in the Spark factory; consequently if Spark's attempts to get SM to collect and pay for that merchandise failed, then they presumably have the right to sell off all such merchandise to recover their costs.
Interesting though, to see that people are up in arms about a chinese copy of a kit, yet revel in the idea of a chinese copy of a turbine.
Gordon
If that is the case, then why not sell them as Skymaster/left over inventory, etc. Why create a new company and sell them as their own?