Fx Impact-Do you realize the difference?

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Spider92

Spider92

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We'll chime in here. There is a manufacturer in South America that is trying to manufacturer knock-off Impacts. You can only imagine how those would perform. We have started legal action against the company, and have also served them notice that if they try to ship into the US that we will heavily go after both them and the dealer that wants to go this route (as legal action is more straight forward than in the country they are manufacturing).

This is not good for our industry as a whole and sets a dangerous precedent. We would encourage this manufacturer to simply create their own airgun, even one highly influenced by FX (nothing new there) rather than outright trying to copy and pass off something as FX.

We would ask AGN members to keep an eye out for these type of things and bring them to our attention.
 
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We'll chime in here. There is a manufacturer in South America that is trying to manufacturer knock-off Impacts. You can only imagine how those would perform. We have started legal action against the company, and have also served them notice that if they try to ship into the US that we will heavily go after both them and the dealer that wants to go this route (as legal action is more straight forward than in the country they are manufacturing).

This is not good for our industry as a whole and sets a dangerous precedent. We would encourage this manufacturer to simply create their own airgun, even one highly influenced by FX (nothing new there) rather than outright trying to copy and pass off something as FX.

We would ask AGN members to keep an eye out for these type of things and bring them to our attention.
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100%... 
They should use their brains to make their own, instead of use other people brains to just get profits
 
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We'll chime in here. There is a manufacturer in South America that is trying to manufacturer knock-off Impacts. You can only imagine how those would perform. We have started legal action against the company, and have also served them notice that if they try to ship into the US that we will heavily go after both them and the dealer that wants to go this route (as legal action is more straight forward than in the country they are manufacturing).

This is not good for our industry as a whole and sets a dangerous precedent. We would encourage this manufacturer to simply create their own airgun, even one highly influenced by FX (nothing new there) rather than outright trying to copy and pass off something as FX.

We would ask AGN members to keep an eye out for these type of things and bring them to our attention.
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I agree!
They can make counterfeit Impacts.
But don't try and pass it off as an "FX" Product!
Zeiss is having this problem with their scopes.
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We'll chime in here. There is a manufacturer in South America that is trying to manufacturer knock-off Impacts. You can only imagine how those would perform. We have started legal action against the company, and have also served them notice that if they try to ship into the US that we will heavily go after both them and the dealer that wants to go this route (as legal action is more straight forward than in the country they are manufacturing).

This is not good for our industry as a whole and sets a dangerous precedent. We would encourage this manufacturer to simply create their own airgun, even one highly influenced by FX (nothing new there) rather than outright trying to copy and pass off something as FX.

We would ask AGN members to keep an eye out for these type of things and bring them to our attention.
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Yikes, thats crazy! Counterfeiting an airgun? This is crazy. So do you guys over at FX know how to spot a knock off? Best to know so the community can help out and post when we see one.
 
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We'll chime in here. There is a manufacturer in South America that is trying to manufacturer knock-off Impacts. You can only imagine how those would perform.
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I love the precision of the genuine FX Airguns. Owned three, still have two. 

You know that company's copy is going to be junk. And you know there won't be any support for it, either by the company or the community.

Why would anyone bother?

I have a Harris clone bipod, bought it from Walmart and I'm not ashamed of it. 

But I'd never buy a rifle clone, especially not an FX.....there's no way it could approach the precision, build quality and performance of the real thing.

Keep after them FX!!!!
 
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OK, so for identification purposes, the pictures were so bad no one could figure it out. The Bottle could have been an after market thing.

Now, knowing it's a knock off, we've had experience on the forums where people have tried to obtain FX design documents, and since no one here wants to help, go away empty handed. Looks like they finally bought one and actually measured it to create the copy.

Intellectual Property (IP) is something people just don't respect. While borrowing from other's designs is how we grow (building upon one another), copying something down to the logo has to be theft and doesn't build, just degrades the market.

Good to know that these exist so I can avoid them. Just means I'll buy from reputable dealers.

Always remember, a deal that's too good to be true, usually is.

Oh, and if you are in the market for a used Impact, AoA has one for $1395 in .30 caliber. Please go buy it before I do.
 
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