Originally Posted by davidsdh

I dont think you understand, we were lead to believe, and not being experts in pmu's range and international manufacturing specification for the last 10 years, relied upon Mao's vastly more experience in the matter to confirm and instil confidence that although looking not the part they were in fact exactly what we ordered.
In no way were we "fully aware that they were re-branded and different in compound or decade of manufacture at the time of purchase"

Rebranded - yes

10 years old, differing in compound and only for sale in SEA - no

If they were the same pad but purple that would be fine, but they arent are they Mao?

EDIT:

Fair point, however we have Mao's supplier SPK whose very sole interest is to validate the pads as genuine against a somewhat more legitimate source of pmu aus and Japan to which we trust they have not be colluding or acting unreasonably (like we have to do with Mao and SPK). They confirm that they are legitimate, just different from what we ordered and very old.