HOW TO TELL IF A TYPICAL IS GENUINE

Typical as come of age, due to its reputation as a reliable inexpensive machine lots of copies have been made, but not to the standard of a genuine Typical.

If you are offered a machine with the name of  the company selling it, and are told that it is a machine made by Typical for them; this is not true. Typical do not sell machine in this way. Unless of course International brand names such as Pfaff, brother, Seiko, Mitsubishi and Consew.

Who was it that said, “Yah pays your money and yah takes your chance”? That is your choice as a consumer.

However, when these copies suddenly appear with a Typical name on, it becomes highly illegal and unethical. I know of 3 examples where this has happened, and I am sure there are more.

Below shows how you can tell the difference between the genuine and the fake.

 Left, non genuine model and serial number.  Right genuine, with Typical trademark.

This is a genuine trademark for Typical industrial sewing machines. There has been an Instance of a fake stick on trade mark, the  genuine is part of the paint work, not stick on.

This is non genuine; it is only the word typical in capital letters using a regular font and a stick on decal.

Left, genuine new style servo motor Control panel.         Right, genuine old-style servo motor control panel.

Below non genuine servo motor control panel, without Typical trademark.

All machines purchased from Camsew Typical Australia have been purchased from Typical international, Xi'an China. Camsew is the only Australian official importer for Typical machines.

If you feel you have purchased a non-genuine machine and you were led to believe that it was a genuine Typical machine, I suggest you contact the company you purchased it from and ask for a refund or for it to be changed for a genuine machine.

You have rights under Australian consumer law for a complete refund or replacement for the genuine item.