Few repo stocks are very well made. Most are obviously wrong either here or there. Some of them has nothing correct, from size, to screw, to shape, to length, to opening, to spring etc, etc. nothing correct. I visited a store selling those repo stocks in Beijing, they call themselves "Store of military items", located in a big dark warehouse, the boss was a man, he hired two girls helping him. There were tons of those stocks, asking .. retail $25 a piece. I talked to them, their intention was not selling those as "real" to cheat, their intention was lower the production cost so they could sell it cheap but still very profitable to many people. There is always a market for low price items. The volume matters. So, all low quality. Those stocks sell $75 in US at that time. Besides stocks, they also carry leather holsters, caps, belts, badges, coats, boots, etc, etc. All fake, honestly acknowledged.
Market for those "military items" is very small. Really amazing market that opened my eyes is the market for fake Swiss watches. Those are the ones by outside looking alone, there is no way to tell it's a fake.... those do run, and run nicely. At least, I cannot tell the difference. When the fake one looks so real and so cheap, who wants the real one...
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