Husky 365 special real or china ?

[Bluefish]

I have been following this thread and got on Alibaba last night. Holy crap, what a wide variety of crap!!! The volume of crap they can produce is mind boggling. Russ

 

[MCW]

Yeah i was dealing with Manny the original Big Bear. Probably the best known of them. He seems like a good bloke and we had lots of jokes. He was under no illusion as to the quality and sent me loads of free spares. At some stage he changed supplier on me at his end and that's when i got the bad batch and it overloaded my tolerance. I've just had enough of them. Also i was selling them as a known copy so the profit wasn't huge.
i agree the Chinese can make top quality stuff. i have Chinese friends here in Australia who are embarrassed at the way their countries manufacturing ability is represented. We actually ask them for cheap rubbish so that's what they produce. I've got goods from the 70's made in China that were every bit as good as the Japanese stuff of the same era. Some of my guitars are made in China and of exceptional quality. I've only heard good things about the Great Wall 4wd's too. They certainly can when they want to.

Yep I hear you on the changing suppliers bit. I had some nightmare BB kits come through when previous batches were top notch.
As far as the Great Walls go they're a bit hit and miss. A lot of farm managers have them around here. OK when they're running, nightmares when they're not. In saying that though I have a 3 yeard old Nissan Navara that had to get all the injectors replaced at 60,000km plus other gremlins

 

[burntmill]

I dealt with Manny Big Bear he was a good bloke.
I agree the Chinese can make top quality. Some of my guitars are made in China and exceptional. My Chinese friends are embarrassed at the way their country's manufacturing ability is being represented to the world. Western consumerism asks them for cheap rubbish which they oblige with. They can make as good as anybody when they want to.

 

[Rudolf73]

I dealt with Manny Big Bear he was a good bloke.
I agree the Chinese can make top quality. Some of my guitars are made in China and exceptional. My Chinese friends are embarrassed at the way their country's manufacturing ability is being represented to the world. Western consumerism asks them for cheap rubbish which they oblige with. They can make as good as anybody when they want to.

Yeah Manny was alright as long as you were buying from him... but when the items didn't match their descriptions he came up with all kinds of stories.