Respect for the Hobby

[rickstef]

This was posted by our friends from WAK on Facebook.
This also goes for any other publisher/designer.

If you have questions about the offers you might see on the various sites, just ask, most of us will have a copy of the original, or know of the provenance of the kit.

On Aliexpress and Ebay, you can buy copies of our models from sellers from China. Don't do this. These are illegal scans of our models or home prints from scans. Not only are they of lower quality than the original WAK models, but also often more expensive.
We have never sold print rights to our models by other companies or sold them electronically. Unfortunately, neither Ebay nor Aliexpress are doing anything about our copyright infringement reports.
Please, for your satisfaction, purchase only original models from our publishing house, from us or in reputable modeling stores.

Na stronach Aliexpress i Ebay, możecie kupić kopie naszych modeli od sprzedawców z Chin. Nie róbcie tego. Są to nielegalne skany naszych modeli lub domowe wydruki ze skanów. Nie tylko są gorszej jakości niż oryginalne modele WAK, ale i często droższe.
Nigdy nie sprzedawaliśmy praw do wydruku naszych modeli przez inne firmy, ani sprzedaży ich w formie elektronicznej. Niestety ani Ebay ani Aliexpress nic nie robią sobie z naszych zgłoszeń naruszania praw autorskich.
Prosimy, dla waszej satysfakcji o zakup tylko oryginalnych modeli z naszego wydawnictwa, u nas lub w renomowanych sklepach modelarskich.

Respect the publishers and designers, and it helps the overall hobby.

Rick

[Olo]

I would never buy anything that is not original ...Respect those who spend hours to design a model

[Butelczynski]

Places like Aliexpress sell printed models in large part because they cater to Asian market that either have restricted access to publishers websites or where shipping from EU is prohibitively expensive.Modelers like us know about piracy and quality issues of those kits and stay well away from them.

[jaffro]

Aliexpress do not cater to the Asian market, in fact, they don't even sell to anyone in mainland China, although most of their sellers are based there.

Aliexpress is a gateway for Chinese sellers to sell and export their products to western consumers. It started as a wholesale only type thing but now they'll sell to almost anyone (unless you live in China).

While some of the products sold there are legitimate, a lot are not. This could be anything from pirated paper models (and even some plastic ones) right through to electronics and all kinds of other well known name brand, copyrighted products.