kz1000ST wrote:
I had a feeling that Bintelli parting with Znen was over quality but this was the first time I saw that thread. I was pretty busy then and missed it.
I knew from conversations with Matt Many and Justin that PFS was recommended as a source for parts to Bintelli dealers.
It would very interesting to know how Wolf is getting along with Znen. Maybe the People at Znen are getting sensitive to the bad Press.
Lol, again with the Bintelli. Have you had any conversations with the people at Znen or Jaijue or Amstar? Most dealers who have sold Wolf, Tao Tao, Bintelli and the other low quality Chinese brands will tell you there is no real difference, except that whatever they are selling at the time is better. If Jaijue is a better supplier, why aren't other companies bringing in their scooters?
I think a lot of people get interested in scooters and come onto forums like this one for information. They see the name Bintelli, which is easily confused with Benelli and sounds vaguely Italian, and the links to their hype in threads about scooters they have heard are pretty good, then the ownership experience turns them off of scooters. All the stories are good, the guys selling them say great things, and they end up with Chinese crap. For the price they get for some of this junk, you can buy a much better quality scooter, from a reputable manufacturer.
If you want to know what the Bintelli stuff is really like, talk to some of the dealers who have quit selling it, not the guys trying to get you to buy it. A guy I know who sells a lot of Chinese scooters says the Honda metropolitan knockoff Bintelli brought in was the biggest POS he's ever carried. Or talk to people who bought them and then try to get warranty work done.
What is now different about Bintelli's business model is that they have dealers build the brand then open their own store in direct competition with their own dealers. That's a company you can trust. And why are they recommending a third company as a source of parts for their own scooters? Shouldn't they be supplying those too?
Sticking yet another plug for crap Chinese scooters in a thread about Kymco is like wandering through a grocery store telling people they should eat recycled newspaper. Seems a little crazy.