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Be wary of look-alike antennasA supplier of ham radio antennas is being victimized by rip off artists.
It's happening in Australia where Jim Linton, VK3PC, brings us the details: Look-a-like antennas - what will they think of next? We're all too familiar with replicas of a wide range of products from expensive fashion items through to automobile spare parts that are being offered at prices, a mere fraction of the genuine product. The unethical manufacturing practice is to re-engineer or copy a highly successful brand name product, and cash in by selling it to sometimes gullible consumers or others aware it's a fake and don't care. Now we have word that there are fake diamonds being sold to VK radio amateurs. No, not the precious stone that adorns an engagement ring, but look-a-like Diamond brand antennas. A very carefully worded statement has been issued by one retailer of Diamond Antennas warning that fakes of the product have reached down under and presumably also other countries. They look the same, have similar packaging, sell at very attractive prices but according to the retailer are a decidedly inferior product. The bottom line. If a deal seems to good to be true, it usually means it is. And the money you thought you saved will quickly fly away when you have to shell out more to buy the legitimate thing. Caveat Emptor - buyer beware!
Jim Linton VK3PC
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