Antec issues 'illegal imports' warning to resellers

Bring it on! ;-)

'Good to know', go ahead mate!

Altech and Antec should really consult their legal counsel before throwing words around such as "illegal" and "not certified" to be use in Australia, they are claiming their own products does not meet our local standards, rules and regulations for emission. I think the regulatory bodies should audit Altech and Antec products first (^_^)

It's just good business.

Altech can cry & make all the noise they want, consumers want cheap and lower prices.

Sue/blame the factory / original supplier, not the Australian importer.

Deal with the cause, not the effects.

There is no illegal parallel import rule in Australia as long as the product is genuinely produce in Antec Factory.

Customer should get the best deal and keep the distributors honest.

I never heard Microsoft sue any parallel importer in Australia for genuine software.

Hey you guys stop it! Altech have been providing excellent service in the past and we should stick to legit disty than buying from CowBoys who jumping on band wagaons

In reply to Hammer Altech provide reasonable customer service but excellent is a big claim and the distributor in question bringing in the supposed illegal imported stuff is a much bigger distributor and hardly cowboys. This is a stupid situation where ANTEC seem to be charging a premium for there product in Australia and someone has seen an opportunity to under cut them by bringing it in from overseas. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come so Australian customers and resellers stop getting ripped off. If Antec had any real claims about anything illegal going on they would aproach the multinational distributor in question directly.

Antec can say whatever they like , grey import is fully legal .

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Everyone needs to note that Altech made no such statement. All statements were made by Irina Tsikun an Antec employee!

Doesn't matter if Altech made this statement or not, no one would believe Antec didn't consult with Altech before posted to ARN...

Dont Altech grey market Intel?

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it's good to gain benefit thru business war, lol

so .. ARN is taking sides with Altech now ?? What was in my comment that breached ARN comment policy, please show me what your comment policies are. I believe this is a follish conduct to delete someone's "fair" comment.

Please justify your reasons for deleting my comments NOW !!!!

it is only Antec who is decision maker about their channel, and the same ARN about their policy. Antec and Altech will continue their sucessful cooperation for at least another 15 years, no matter what is said here.

sooo .... so explaination or justification of your so called "Comment Policy" ??

@st: Altech buy Intel CPU's from Ingram Micro, who are the distrubitor in Australia. No grey import threre.

Smoke and mirrors by Antec.

A bit of speculation here, but I don't think it was a coincidence that around the time Synnex Australia started selling Antec cases, the Antec head honchos were visiting Australia. And it's not a coincidence that Synnex USA have the distrubtion rights for Antec in North America (there's your supply chain). Then there's the rumblings I've heard that Antec weren't happy with the volume of sales Altech was doing with it's product.

Why haven't Antec spoken to the "distributor in question" about this matter? Antec is either shopping their product around unoficially, with Synnex being the logical choice due to the link with the USA, or they are turning a blind eye hoping it will give Altech the kick up the pants to push more Antec products.

Either way, this "warning" is just to make it look like they are doing something about it.

Synnex does a lot of creative bundles revolving Antec, from Oceanic 467, MCG, 4 x MC (motherboard CPU bundle) etc..in the component space since they started to carry them. They did spike the sales of Antec cases and created more awareness, the only problem is the confusion in pricing Antec cases sometimes 110 sometimes 128, thus resellers and even themselves are confused with the actual price.

everyone hear me now or I will slap your hands 4 times. In my opinion Australia doesn't have law to stop trader / resellers / distributors in combining container shipment into this country. which means there is no such thing as grey import, only parallel import. The reason call it parallel because they don't come alone, they always come together they come from same factory located near D&G. Which never short of supply always guarrantee stock come very fast.