Ok, let me get this straight. You bought a scope for under $100 and defend your choice with such a passion. You also state that you find $500 and up Leopolds overpriced and unfair price. So you bought cheap. But at the same time you trying to make a case that "because Leopold manufacture in China there is no point to honor a trademark". Am I getting your drift right? Leopold is guilty of producing in China, so it is ok to buy fake Leopold, because it is still made in China.
Did it ever occurred to you, that because consumer base like yourself who will buy from the devil himself if anything is half price, Leopold for one could not possibly meet a price point which would make you happy and had to move production to cheaper location?
Did it ever occurred to you, that "profits from reselling" as you called it, had to cover R&D, manufacturing, logistics, design optimization, warranty services, marketing, sales personnel, taxes on all that. If Leopold did not employ all these people for all these years this product would not exist at all. A fraud China company which you support with your money did nothing of the above, but took a product they didn't own or invest in, made a ####ty copy of it, marked it with Leopold name just to gain more traction and fool people and now sells it from beyond the reach of the international law, paying no taxes, sending it through border as "gifts" and selling on ebay as private sellers.
Does it bother you at all? Apparently it does not, but Leopold has no right to claim its own product because they try produce it cheaper so people like you don't have to buy $3000+ scopes?
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