Well, to tell you the truth, if it happened here in Italy I wouldn’t be surprised at all. But I believe the Swiss have harsher rules for this sort of stuff, and there are people who actually care.

Plus, mine seems to have all the relevant stickers and logos and whatnot.

That said, yes, I certainly can believe there are some awful knockoffs, but based on what I’ve read while lurking (with the occasional post every now and then…) on RCGroups I think most are pretty good, with the bad ones being the exception rather than the rule.

Then again I haven’t been on RCG for a while, maybe things have changed…

There are so many Picoo Z knockoffs out there that it’s impossible to make a blanket statement about them. Perhaps the average quality now is better than it used to be; when the first wave of counterfeits struck last year, a lot of them were pretty dreadful.

(Incidentally, are you quite sure that your hard-to-fly “original” Picoo Z actually is an original one? ‘Cos the early knockoffs not only looked almost exactly like the genuine helicopters, but were also often sold as Picoo Zs!)