#Leupold scope serial number lookup serial numbers#
#Leupold scope serial number lookup serial number#
#Leupold scope serial number lookup code#

#Leupold scope serial number lookup serial number#

Sinceevery Leupold scope includes a letter in the serial number as a date-code.

#Leupold scope serial number lookup code#

The date code is a quick way to assure authenticity. Counterfeit scopes often use fake serial numbers, all identical serial numbers, or incorrect numbering convention. A counterfeit experience can sour a victimized buyer on the company, a phenomenon to which Leupold is sensitive.ДЄll Leupold rifle scopes bear an individual serial number that's engraved on the bottom of the turret. Leupold is famous for its 'Full Lifetime Guarantee,' but it will not service counterfeit products. Regrettably, owners learn the truth when they send faulty products to Leupold for warranty service. The products are illegally imported from the People's Republic of China, which is a profligate violator of patent and trademark rights. Of course, you don't know it's counterfeit until you've paid for the item and have it in hand. They're cheap enough to draw you in, but not so cheap to scare you away. Most counterfeit Leupolds are of Chinese origin and are priced sufficiently below manufacturer's suggested retail price on many websites to be irresistible. Even fake Rolex wristwatches keep time for a while, but would you trust such a scope on a prized draw hunt that you've entered for two decades? If you're lucky, your ersatz Leupold is serviceable. Leupold has no obligation to replace a counterfeit scope, nor does a retailer. The seller was off to the next bazaar and a fresh crop of pigeons, and the buyer had no recourse. Please no hostile comments from the UAW members in the audience: I know, I stood on the GM line and talked to them as they stalled and fidgeted their time away I once said that there was one company I would NEVER work for, but it turns out they snuck me into their employ through the back door by purchasing the Japanese company I worked for.Д«ut by then I'd gone on disability.An employee at a local sporting goods store told us about a customer that recently got too good of a deal on a Leupold rifle scope at a gun show. Fact is, based on their latest benefits packages and those they'll see in the future, they pretty much already have! Of course, this economy will not help them or Leupold for that matter And the UAW, who couldn't build something right if you took them by the nose, will finally get their come-uppence. GM, in their infinite global greed in the mids, bought Isuzu Commercial Truck, whereupon I 'became' a GM engineer, with a front-row seat view to all of their wondrous management techniques which, I'll happily wager, will still fail them when our government's bailout money is all gone. I was a field manager Porsche, and then a senior quality manager Mitsubishi, then Mazda, then Isuzu. Originally Posted by joeM Originally Posted by MesaRifle. Many companies have the bodies of the scopes done in China and the optics done in Japan! The Chinese are just as capable as we or the Japanese are of building the mechanics machining to tight tolerances est. Companies like Leupold have sent their cheaper hunting scope lines to be made in China.

#Leupold scope serial number lookup serial numbers#

Aimpoint, Sweden will acknowledge the grey-market product serial numbers - but to get some work done on them - you will have to bear the cost of shipping both ways. You cannot have them serviced through the distributors here in the U. So many companies are doing this it would not surprise me one way or another, but copyright theft in quite another thing. I always thought Leupold had their glass made in China and was assembled here for a while? Iwas told this by a Leupold rep years ago I really dont know just what I was told. I have purchased other Leupold scopes only after calling them to verify the serial number. I got a Leupold scope last month directly from the Leupold factory, by way of a relative that works there. Counterfeit Leupold ScopeД®very item you find for sale has been copied.