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We had talked HERE about relatively cheap combination grinders from the Far East,
that are brought among the people in various guises and names.
HERE I had found the Scheppach variation on the theme in "new, with blemishes" for the reduced price of €84.90.
I was already ready to order there, was just looking for a technical specification that was not given in the offer on eBay.de and searched for it on the page of the "manufacturer" Scheppach ....
... and lo and behold, at Scheppach I found ....
... as "B-Goods/Refurbished" for only €74.90 with shipping
Today I acquired it, vulgo: it arrived
On the outer packaging was only noticeable that all edges were re-taped with very strong transparent tape, nothing else.
Now it was of course exciting to discover what was wrong with this specimen when the importer sold it so far below its own list price to the public ....
The plastic packaging inside is just as you would expect from this type of shipment, nothing appears to have been repackaged.
All parts are present.
Scheppach has removed any reference to the origin of the machine!
You just have to like them, these Chinese with their obsession for detail - see 0-marking :
Someone suggested Velcro connections for the sanding disc - it's already like that with me.
I ended up not figuring out why this one fell under this special price and they continue to offer some.
Currently we have two working hypotheses:
- A major buyer went broke or for some other reason didn't pay their bills to Scheppach, they took the stuff back and only checked for fullness, not condition;
- I know that major customers of Chinese manufacturers often take out and open only two to five boxes per sea container - if these are not in accordance with the contract, the entire container goes back on the ship and to China - this threat is said to have caused pure miracles with the suppliers .... however, I would then have expected that the individual parts would also have been unpacked, which apparently did not happen here ...;
Question to those who also have a machine of such similar type:
Is your sanding belt also always wobbling from side to side when running???
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And then came some brass material for making ferrule for handles of hand tools.
The man in the warehouse will have puked with annoyance at this many small blanks to cut and label ...
... the dealer offers it this way and I wanted to be able to try something around - well, tough luck mate.
Carsten
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We had talked HERE about relatively cheap combination grinders from the Far East,
that are brought among the people in various guises and names.
HERE I had found the Scheppach variation on the theme in "new, with blemishes" for the reduced price of €84.90.
I was already ready to order there, was just looking for a technical specification that was not given in the offer on eBay.de and searched for it on the page of the "manufacturer" Scheppach ....
... and lo and behold, at Scheppach I found ....
... as "B-Goods/Refurbished" for only €74.90 with shipping
Today I acquired it, vulgo: it arrived
On the outer packaging was only noticeable that all edges were re-taped with very strong transparent tape, nothing else.
Now it was of course exciting to discover what was wrong with this specimen when the importer sold it so far below its own list price to the public ....
The plastic packaging inside is just as you would expect from this type of shipment, nothing appears to have been repackaged.
All parts are present.
Scheppach has removed any reference to the origin of the machine!
You just have to like them, these Chinese with their obsession for detail - see 0-marking
:Someone suggested Velcro connections for the sanding disc - it's already like that with me.
I ended up not figuring out why this one fell under this special price and they continue to offer some.
Currently we have two working hypotheses:
- A major buyer went broke or for some other reason didn't pay their bills to Scheppach, they took the stuff back and only checked for fullness, not condition;
- I know that major customers of Chinese manufacturers often take out and open only two to five boxes per sea container - if these are not in accordance with the contract, the entire container goes back on the ship and to China - this threat is said to have caused pure miracles with the suppliers .... however, I would then have expected that the individual parts would also have been unpacked, which apparently did not happen here ...;
Question to those who also have a machine of such similar type:
Is your sanding belt also always wobbling from side to side when running???
---
And then came some brass material for making ferrule for handles of hand tools.
The man in the warehouse will have puked with annoyance at this many small blanks to cut and label ...
... the dealer offers it this way and I wanted to be able to try something around - well, tough luck mate.
Carsten
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