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Originally Posted by Morlac
My guess is that won't happen.
(a) Assuming that it was actually a factory mistake, they may require the faulty units be returned to China in order to verify the number of affected units to determine how they compensate Astak.
(b) Given that image counts for quite a bit, Astak would be very ill-served by selling those flaking units at any price. Out in the wild, they will represent the line badly when showing them to others. Alternatively, the owners may be embarassed by how shoddy they look and be less likely to show them off or evangelize about them.
(c) Assuming that the fix is labor intensive but relatively straightforward (disassemble, strip the bad paint, repaint properly), it would still most likely be more profitable to do that and be able to sell them as "refurbished" at a 15% discount than just drop the price by 50% and sell as is. And that's assuming they chose to sell as refurb instead of simply saying they're new. (Especially any that legitimately never shipped to a customer but were caught at Astak after the story broke and they started inspecting their inventory.)
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You're probably right. I just checked their website to verify shipping costs and all the coloured PP's are "Out of Stock". Seems like they might have issues with every colour except white and black (I would not expect an issue with the black considering the hanlin v5 is black).
Edit: Before I commit to my purchase can someone provide some confirmation about the black PP please. Does it have a painted cover like the coloured PP's? It does appear all the blistering issues is with the coloured units, but with the black (and white perhaps) it might not be as obvious.