At Stick's suggestion, I'm starting a spinoff of "Good Deals & Interesting Finds". What goes here?

  • Bullshit ripoffs to mock and laugh at
  • Things that don't seem quite right
  • On the positive side of the ledger, things where you had low expectations but overperformed


To start with, there's the curious case of Charlie's recently posted at NWFA that inspired this thread.
https://www.northwestfirearms.com/th...clones.386454/

I bought a "heavy duty" DD barrel nut tool from Charlie's but it turned out to be the same exact tool that DD sells for half the price, I checked the size, thickness of the new tool (micrometer) compared to my broken one and it was exactly the same. Same metal and when I cross referenced the SKU on DD's page the standard tool came up as well. Not sure if they screwed up or it was an outright lie to get people to pay more. I have contacted them so we will see if they fess up or compound the lie.
https://charliescustomclones.com/dan...ch-heavy-duty/
https://charliescustomclones.com/dan...barrel-wrench/
And the followup:
Well they decided to double down on the lie and tell me they sent the heavy duty version of the tool. I told them I had copied both complete pages of the item in question and sent them to DD for review....
They did not like that to much...
So the floor's open, for everything from the "WTF?!" to the "Point and Laugh" to the "Wow, that's a hidden gem!"