Is oregon chain counterfeited?

[elittle]

So I was looking on Amazon for chain for a husky 350, it takes the M72 18" Oregon chain. Amazon had 3 packs of them for $9 each! $3 a chain. I ordered 5 boxes. I have about 20 other Oregon chains and these look identical.
After seeing they were real I went to buy more but they were gone. Someone i know is saying they can't be real, but they sure look good to me. They were sold by Amazon, not a third party.
Has anybody ever seen fake oregon chains being sold in oregon packaging with all the stamps on the links looking 100% legit?
Hoping i got the deal of a lifetime and if I didn't is only $50.
They appear identical to the ones for sale on oregons site for 60$, i think Amazon just screwed up.

 

[elittle]

Photo of the links, they are all stamped 95 on the back.

 

[Christopher Boothe]

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[sean donato]

Probably just some sort of over stock sale or closeout. I wouldn't be too worried about it

 

[nedsim]

It's easy and cheap to counterfeit the packaging, but that embossed OREGON mark on the cutters would be expensive to incorporate into the stamping tools. It seems unlikely a counterfeiter would bother going to that much trouble for a detail that isn't obvious 'til the chain is unpacked.

 

[pdqdl]

Run 'em!
If they work out well, does it matter if they were counterfeited?

 

[OM617YOTA]

EVERYTHING is counterfeited. EVERYTHING.

Whether you have counterfeit chain, who knows. For $3/ea run it, if it cuts it was a good deal.

 

[huskihl]

Looks original to me. They’d get hammered for even copying the oem packaging

 

[OM617YOTA]

Looks original to me. They’d get hammered for even copying the oem packaging

Yeah, but China's laws on IP theft can be summed up as "LOL".

 

[H-Ranch]

Yeah, but China's laws on IP theft can be summed up as "LOL".

Yep, and until Amazon, eBay, and others are held responsible for their part in supporting MASS counterfeiting of every product you can imagine, nothing will change.

Whether $3/chain is a good deal or if it works well is not the point. Selling under another manufacturers name is not right, regardless how good the product is. I can't tell you if this particular chain is genuine or not.

 

[Chevboy0167]

Looks legit to me...

 

[elittle]

Yeah, i think it was a hell of a deal! I think they screwed up the price. They were there one second and gone the next. I was just curious if anybody had ever heard of someone going to crazy lengths to copy oregon chain.
Thanks for the feedback.

 

[OM617YOTA]

Amazon goofed pricing the toilet paper I usually buy, had it for $15/case. We have room and it doesn't go bad, so we stocked up big time, didn't buy TP for years. I expected the order to get cancelled but sure enough everything arrived. Next day it was back to the normal price. Goof ups definitely happen.

 

[NSEric]

I bought a dirt cheap Oregon speed cut 16 inch bar and chain off amazon.
The bar is fine but the chain is super soft like it has no chrome at all. It lasted 2 cuts and when I went to file it I took half the tooth off in a few file strokes.
It was still cheaper than just a bar so im not too upset.

 

[sean donato]

Oregon had a run of pretty crappy chain some years ago, I experienced the same with a bunch of lgx and jgx I got for milling. (Plan was to change over to a 10* top plate angle as I used them.) Chains dulled very quickly and filed very easily. Few other guys i know that do logging and tree work had the same issues. We all switched to different chain and haven't bought oregon since..

 

[Rooshooter]

Has anybody ever seen fake oregon chains being sold in oregon packaging with all the stamps on the links looking 100% legit?
Hoping i got the deal of a lifetime and if I didn't is only $50.
They appear identical to the ones for sale on oregons site for 60$, i think Amazon just screwed up.

Yes, although not many people know about it, a few years ago an Australian company got caught out selling counterfeit Oregon chain in loops and 100ft boxes ( lots of it ), everything identical to the real thing EG: packaging, stamping, blued cutters etc.
I also got some samples of " Stihl " chain loops from a company in China and it was impossible to tell the difference between counterfeit and Original other than the poor performance of the copy, a Queensland Stihl dealer also got caught out selling it in 100ft rolls at a fraction of the price of the genuine.

 

[Gardiner Schneider]

Yes, although not many people know about it, a few years ago an Australian company got caught out selling counterfeit Oregon chain in loops and 100ft boxes ( lots of it ), everything identical to the real thing EG: packaging, stamping, blued cutters etc.
I also got some samples of " Stihl " chain loops from a company in China and it was impossible to tell the difference between counterfeit and Original other than the poor performance of the copy, a Queensland Stihl dealer also got caught out selling it in 100ft rolls at a fraction of the price of the genuine.

Sorta like the old guy that took a fifty dollar bill into a bank and asked to have it broken into ones. Then the took the fifty ones to another bank and asked to have them turned into a fifty. He kept going from bank to bank, doing this. One day a teller recognized the old fella and asked, "what are you doing with all this changing of bills?". The old guy looked him square in the eye and said: " Son, I do this 'cause somebody is gonna make a mistake, and it ain't gonna be me."