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COUNTERFEIT LEUPOLD RIFLESCOPE WARNING
Leupold.com ^ | Leupold

Posted on 12/26/2009 4:15:22 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour

Leupold® is issuing a customer alert to purchasers of products, particularly via Internet sales, in regards to bogus Leupold products that are apparently being illegally imported from the People’s Republic of China. These products bear many of the marks and trade dress of current Leupold & Stevens riflescopes making them very hard to distinguish externally from authentic Leupold products. In recent months, counterfeited Leupold Mark 4® riflescopes have begun to arrive with increasing regularity at the firm’s Beaverton, Oregon, headquarters for service. These products are not manufactured by Leupold and are not covered by the Leupold Full Lifetime Guarantee. Leupold employs serial number tracking for all its riflescopes, so if a customer finds a scope that is suspect, he or she can simply write down the serial number and call 1-800-LEUPOLD to confirm if it is indeed authentic. In general, most of the scopes appear to originate from Hong Kong (People’s Republic of China), and have “Leupold Mark 4” laser engraved on the bottom of the turret in a silver etch, while the black ring on the objective is etched in white and does not include the name “Leupold.” The scopes also do not bear the Leupold medallion, a mark all Leupold scopes will always possess. An authentic Mark 4 riflescope will always be engraved black on black and have the name “Leupold” engraved on the black ring.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: banglist; leupold; optics
Heads up boys and girls, our wonderful friends from China are building knock offs again. Check your Christmas goodies over good!
1 posted on 12/26/2009 4:15:22 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

The Obama State Department is probably encouraging them to do this.


2 posted on 12/26/2009 4:20:02 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Dang. That’s gonna p!$$ people off. Pay hundreds for top-of-the-line optics and get cheap, ChiCom knockoff crap.


3 posted on 12/26/2009 4:22:19 PM PST by 50cal Smokepole (Effective gun control involves effective recoil management)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

BANG

bump


4 posted on 12/26/2009 4:23:34 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream.)
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To: 50cal Smokepole

You ain’t kidding. The low end Leupolds start at around $200.


5 posted on 12/26/2009 4:25:32 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

And most real Mark 4’s run a grand easy...


6 posted on 12/26/2009 4:28:11 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: 50cal Smokepole

You mean that brand new $50 scope I bought on Ebay might be fake?


7 posted on 12/26/2009 4:29:10 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Leupold has this warning on their Web site for quite some time. I have two scopes from them and they are quite good, I must say, well worth the money.


8 posted on 12/26/2009 4:52:06 PM PST by Greysard
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Now dont go messing with my VariX III’s


9 posted on 12/26/2009 4:55:31 PM PST by blackminorca
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To: 50cal Smokepole

Buyer beware.

I got lucky that the Hakko electropoint I bought had Japanese optics.

I think China does the optics now.

That thing has never lost zero.


10 posted on 12/26/2009 5:18:10 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: driftdiver

Since ebay is anti-gun I am sure they welcome the fake Leupold’s.


11 posted on 12/26/2009 5:19:11 PM PST by TYVets (Let's Roll!!! The leadership of the GOP has no spine and no guts, but we conservatives do)
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To: mylife

Yep. You get what you pay for — if you actually get what you paid for.


12 posted on 12/26/2009 5:26:58 PM PST by 50cal Smokepole (Effective gun control involves effective recoil management)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Thanks for the heads up! My father in law is a big Leupold fan. He bought his stuff from Cabelas. I would assume those purchases are legit?


13 posted on 12/26/2009 5:28:12 PM PST by caver (Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
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To: 50cal Smokepole

That’s a pretty qualified tautology you’ve got going there.


14 posted on 12/26/2009 5:30:31 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: coloradan

Aw, shucks.


15 posted on 12/26/2009 5:40:06 PM PST by 50cal Smokepole (Effective gun control involves effective recoil management)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

That’s OK. My Norden bombsight still is original and works as advertised when needed. Hoping to use it soon . . .


16 posted on 12/26/2009 5:48:03 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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Hoping to use it soon . . .

You need any help with target selection?

17 posted on 12/26/2009 8:11:25 PM PST by GingisK
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My Norden bombsight still is original and works as advertised when needed.

Dang, that thing's even older than my Unertl.

18 posted on 12/26/2009 10:58:19 PM PST by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: caver

Probably. I would assume an outfit as big as Cabela’s would go direct to the factory (and receive their shipments direct from the factory) and negotiate their own pricing rather than order from a wholesaler or distributor, where some of the knockoffs might creep in.


19 posted on 01/12/2010 1:58:08 PM PST by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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