blam360 Posted August 1, 2013 Report Share Posted August 1, 2013 I pretty much have had the exact same experience as you. Josh has been fantastic to deal with. I ordered a 552 from him and received it very speedily. Unfortunately it had ghosting, parallax, and unevenly illuminated reticule (one side was brighter than the other) issues. The reticule was also tilted ever so slightly to the right. I'm thinking the manufacturer is having QC issues (maybe they just hired a new guy for QC ) Josh has offered to replace it free of change (ex-shipping) and I will be returning mine in hopefully in the next few days when work gets a bit less hectic. Fingers crossed the 2nd one will be much improved update - i sent the sight back to the factory for a replacement. finally got my hands on a new one, shipped directly from Josh along with some extra goodies to make up for the long wait time. the new sight is much better and I am very happy with the product. Josh has been outstanding to deal with throughout the whole process as well. +1 ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xenon Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 Does anyone know if Josh is still selling Eotech 552 replicas or would it make sense to start looking elsewhere? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Habakure Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 Have you tried pm'ing him? His thread says he doesn't sell these anymore, due to trouble with customs and Eotech clamping down hard, on replicas of their product. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xenon Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 Yes, I sent him a PM quite a few days with no reply yet. Actually it looks like he hasn't even read it yet. However, his signature mentions that he still has some 552's to clear out. That's what actually made me wonder if he's still in business. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawaiianjuggernaut Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 Got your PM Martin, apologies for it being so late. Currently on a family trip and somehow missed that notification. Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jdott_uk Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Looking for a 551 does anyone know if i can get hold of one? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blam360 Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 PM me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kilohotel Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 Looks pretty awesome, i'd love to get me one! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xrayhead Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 Well I used mine on Sunday for the "2nd" time only and bugger me in the first game of the day the Frikin lens got shot out, proper gutted. Not sure if you can pop the front lens out? The hol still lights up but front lens is smashed to hell now Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawaiianjuggernaut Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 Unfortunately nothing can be don't about that :/ Sorry xrayhead Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xrayhead Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 Unfortunately nothing can be don't about that :/ Sorry xrayhead Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk 4 Oh well - better it a BB than a 7.62 round Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Drifty Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Is this still around? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawaiianjuggernaut Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Sadly no... L3 legal went nuts on me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xenon Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Could you elaborate on that? Did they try to get you on copyright laws or what did they do? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawaiianjuggernaut Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Sent me a ton of scary C&D orders explaining how I was violating trade dress. Essentially, they have numerous patents on the external appearance, and it doesn't matter if you're trying to sell sights without trade. They're more worried about people getting them confused with real eotechs, and then the rep of EoTech being damaged because these sights aren't as high quality. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xenon Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 That does look like a valid concern. I wonder if it would have helped if they would be out in the open websites (there's still sites selling these from Element etc) with very explicit notifications that these should never be used on real firearms etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawaiianjuggernaut Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 They're more worried about them getting passed around and then ending up on a service member's rifle, failing, and then endangering them. I will admit its a very valid point. However, if you sell the sights with no EoTech marks, youd think there would be no problem? Oh well. There's always ebairsoft and all the HK sites for purchasing your repro sights lol. From my knowledge they don't care about a guy owning one or two. Its not worth their time to track them down and send them scary letters too. They only care about the people selling lots of them. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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