counterfeit minelab products

hi all are you getting what you pay for from an auction site, cheap batteries, coils maybe flooding the internet
here is a minelab link i came across.
http://www.minelab.com/aus/consumer/knowledge-base/news?article=19205

The fakes are better now than ever before & it seems that even Minelab agree that you can no longer tell the real ones from the fakes.

They should have used a chip like their VFLEX chip in all their coils & detectors. Dealers could have then tested the coils & the control boxes against one another to spot any fakes. No excuse for it next machine, right?

If you click on the PDFs at the bottom of the page on the link above, you can see the pictures of the fakes in much more detail. Very impressive job on some of them. Remember also that they've managed to reproduce the Coiltek and NF coils as well so nearly everything is tainted. If it wasn't for the Africans trying so hard to continually make money off their own pals, those stupid fakes would probably never see the light of day. The whole thing is sort of self-perpetuating.

Cheers.

Gday


Thats something that all detectorist using minelab products should see, there are some very clever fakes about by the sounds of things, my advice is to hang on to what you have, as time goes on people will realise that they have to source genuine products and that will make the real mcoy stuff worth all the more.

cheers

stayyerAU

while the 15x12 mono commanders were fetching a premium well over the DD version, a few scammers were buying DD's and putting counterfeit mono stickers on them, then reflogging them off as monos.

I know of one fellow who bought 10 restickered DD's at $1800.00 a pop

There's probably a bright side. Eventually, a reliable and competent Chinese manufacturer will release a range of detectors that are very similar in quality to Minelabs, but at a quarter of the price.

found another link to counterfeit minelab products these products could be sold to newbies that buy from internet auction sites that think they will be getting a bargin
so be very careful
http://www.minelab.com/__files/f/19548/Counterfeit%20GPX-4500%20announcement%20-%20Arabic%20-%2031st%20May%202010.pdf

Read the RED print.

http://cgi.ebay.com/COILTEK-12x18-MONO-MINELAB-GPX-4500-METAL-DETECTOR-/280521456354?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item415061bae2#ht_1292wt_932

http://cgi.ebay.com/GPX-4500-15x12-Semi-Elliptical-Commander-Mono-Coil-New-/280521460147?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item415061c9b3

noticed from supposed minelab dealer in spain new 4500's for 3000 ero or approx$4200 aust incl export tax and fob incl spare battery and 15x12 . Does anybody no what the go is as I cant see why as freight is minimal and dont believe there would be any import duty as it is ausralian made,regards ,mark

fastgold wrote:noticed from supposed minelab dealer in spain new 4500's for 3000 ero or approx$4200 aust incl export tax and fob incl spare battery and 15x12 . Does anybody no what the go is ....

That Spanish seller (has in the past) been stocked with fake detectors which he buys from Turkey and China. I've even spotted him doing a Bait-and-Switch a few times when he runs out of the products that he wants to sell. He got angry last year when he couldn't supply the GPX due to a lack of supply at the time (the fakes weren't available then) and so he started flogging other brands claiming they were better and went deeper etc. I'm only guessing but I would suspect that he was chastised for this and now is now unable to buy anything but the fakes. I'd guess that he is happy to buy the fakes and knows he can wrangle more money this way. 20 fake GPXs at a discount is still going to cost him much less than 20 real ones ...so his expenses are low and his profit margin is no doubt rather high.

I have to watch out for exceptionally high quality fake Spanish Colonial coins from the same location since that is what I like to collect. Spain seems to host a lot of scammers these days.

be interesting to have payment of order to minelab with direct delivery seeing i'm already in adelaide. I wonder what the excuse would be then

I wonder if these actualy work and how good they are.
cheers dave

DAVE, WOULD HAVE TO BE RIDGEE DIDGE IF ORDER BY THEM WAS WITH MINELAB IN SA WITH DIRECT DELIVERY. NO PAYEE TILL THE SPANISH END DID. THAT MIGHT FIX THEIR LITTLE RED WAGON

its not only minelab counterfeit products coiltek is having the same problem
http://coiltekmanufacturing.com.au/counterfeitcoil.html