I have found a makita oscillating tool for sale from a us store home office in China.
The tool is offered at $39 with $4 shipping. The amazon price for the same tool is $119.00.
Has anyone bought from these Chinese internet stores? Or does anyone know anything about this.
Scillating tools aren’t increibly complicated, so it might not be too difficult to make a passable knock off that functions OK.
AVE on youtube just did a video on a Makita knock off impact driver he purchased from one of those large internet sites, maybe Alibaba.
As he pointed out, the tool was mostly well made for the price.
The gear box for the tool was all metal, the motor was brushless.
The molds were dual material and well finished.
I doubt the engineering was as good as a genuine Makita, but overall it was decent enough and compatible with resl Makita batteries, so an uninformed buyer might never realize it was a knock off.
As far far as the tool goes, as far as I’m aware, Hong Kong and China use 220V currency, so if it’s a genuine Grey market Chinese tool, it may be the wrong voltage. Some bathrooms have 100V apparently, but yhat’s probably for tourists who kept shorting stuff out like razors.
It it were from the UK or South America it might actually be 120V, but a a 120V tool from China sounds like a knockoff.
