Agree renov8r. My thought is the fault lies with the managment at the manufacturing plant for assuming there was no conflict of interest instead of actually checking with their main customer. I can easily imagine that things were fine until their main customer showed up for a quality audit or product launch or something, saw the line being setup for the 978, asked "What's that?" then the proverbial fan and feces met. That can happen anywhere you have weak/clueless managment.

However there is the possibility the plant just lied to both Outlaw and their other customer, got caught and had to sack Outlaw or loose their big customer. I can see this happening in China more than elsewhere...