Perusing the Alibaba web site, there are Chinese companies offering for sale almost-exact copies of popular metal detectors from White's, Teknetics, Minelab, etc at cut-rate prices. What we have determined is that these companies are trolling for orders. The detectors haven't actually been made yet*, but if someone placed an order for, say, 5000 units, they would quickly tool up and produce them.
Of course, the buyer of these Chinese knock-offs would end up with detectors that look like a Teknetics T2 or White's V3, but have a poor-performing generic VLF circuit inside. Interestingly, if they do make a knock-off of an Electroscope, any circuit they put inside it would be an improvement over the Real Thing.
- Carl
* Exception is the Minelab GPX-4500 copy, which I'm told really exists.
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