Look out for knocked off Flite V2 machines

[hellraiser6662]

The point always comes to eBay. That's basically the first point of sale, people always complain about eBay, stop bitching and do something about it. If you stop eBay from selling tattoo equipment you stop most scratchers as well, it's going to be harder to buy copied machines, ink, needles etc. But i see knowone from any large tattoo equipment manufacturer doing anything about it, just complaining on forums and being totally bitchy. These top manufacturers have the contacts to do something about it but they don't they just sit, watch and bitch. If you want change sort it out otherwise suck on ebay and the Chinese copies. Most tattooists if not all will stand with top manufacturers on this. It just takes one to make a stand and then pass the word........

[tattoosteve]

Yeah Ive stopped shopping on scambay. Buy direclty from the original source or an authorized distributor.
I think all machines made in the USA, AU, UK, should have the country name embeded into the machine. Kinda like Bishops do now.
Impossible to stop the knockoffs but at least they have to sell it under a different name. Kinda like the stealth and storm. Its the same thing just slightly different.
One more thing is to always come out with new models so they are a step behind. Shoot maybe an online serial number checker where you can check the serial number and it will show if its real or not?