Most company's make you pay to ship an item back for repair or replacement,but wanting to charge you again to send one back to you sounds like a heck of a good deal for them.I'm always curiouse why people in the U.S. go out of the country to buy a lot of these tank models and then when they have a problem, getting it resolved is a big problem and costly. "May I ask"Were these not avaible here,or did it just look like a good buy at the time.??? BIGMIG