"Clone" is a nice way of saying 'patent infringing chicom shit'
There's plenty of harm in buying shit knockoffs over the original, you harm...for example, the manufacturer who's design was stolen by cheating them out of the purchase. You harm them again when dumbasses think they're buying a legit Atlas at an awesome price when they call to bitch about it breaking/not functioning properly.
If memory serves me Kasey said something crazy like 30% of their service calls are wasted diagnosing and eventually discovering the person calling with the issue bought a fake.
You guys with your "the shit knockoff is just as good, no harm in saving money" bullshit are the problem with America today. You only care about your own wallet and you'd rather pay a foreign ripoff artist for a shit knockoff than buy the real thing from a US company.
A company that sponsors and supports damn near every match I've ever gone to, always gives the Hide first crack at new products, and has a customer service/loyalty program second to none.
Pretty sure promoting the purchase of fake shit is against forum rules too, while we're on the topic. You buy that shit or encourage others to do so and you shit on a great company with salt of the Earth folks staffing it.
Here's a ? for your fake shit loving trouble.