Hello
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I hope i will not violate rules of this board and this wouldn't be cathegorized as unaothorized advertisement.
Just noticed this thread, i am manager of ebay store which this topic starter mentioned. Just wanted to make it clear - all HAKKO products we offer are genuine, we don't have large stock but we keep in stock all the available tips for 8801 and some spare parts. Since Hakko seems to be the most copied soldering tools brand, we purchase them only directly from HAKKO and never from any other wholesellers. Upon your request we can always provide detailed photos (even open demo station and take a photo of mainboard)
I have seen some other Hakko products from China (Actually - i don't know if they were counterfeit - or official Hakko products made in China for China market) - and even tip quality differs between Made in China and Made in Malaysia (EU products are made in Malaysia)
To sanchaz12: could i kindly ask you to edit your previous message and remove those last four digits of s/n you wrote there? As i read on this board in another thread - counterfeit stations very often misses serial numbers, thats why we took a photo of our demo station and uploaded, but i'm afraid after some time it may happen that this s/n is used for knockoff . Thank you for understanding!
After opening this thread we have received very great interest for our HAkko products and ebay store. We are very thankful - and i think best way to clear any doubts that we sell only genuine Hakko products - we could offer to organize competition or something here on boards with prize - FX-888D station + free international delivery
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. Thats of course if - administrator/moderator of this board would be interested
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