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    Cheap winches - any good?

    There is a website selling 12000lb electric winches out of Melbourne.
    http://www.thiswotidonow.com/

    Apparently they will be on special in 6 weeks time for $799.

    Anyone know if they are any good?

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    The quality of that website is pretty poor (its ugly too)

    As for the winch - it sounds good.

    Too good to be true perhaps :?:

    I'd also be interested if anyone else knows something of these units.
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    Confucious says:

    "anyone that sells winches and glowsticks in the same place probably runs a $2 store".

    I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole (and they don't sell those)
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    Most of the Chinese winches come from one or two companies. I noticed some time ago that they were about $500 in the USA.
    What happens is that the first importer tries to make a motsa. Look at the air compressors. Started at $300+ now 100. Generators started $250 now 99.

    The same will happen with the Chinese winches and they are probably EXACTLY the same as the ones they were asking $1400 for.
    Lucky for consumers that the Chinese have no idea of how to have a long term distributor agreement and there is always an importer who will undercut.
    You know in UK those Viair big air compressors cost GBP 250 or something!!! I paid $170 on ebay and a friend told me he paid 130..
    Globalization is stopping this bullsh1t to some extent, but Cooper have managed to overcharge until now.
    Regards Philip A

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    it looks the goods.
    I have also wondered about these cheap winches for those of us who realisticly dont use a winch all that oftern are they worth it???

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