Unfortunately some mower shops will tell you anything to sell a customer shop equipment in stock ,my brother had a fairly new 2 stroke chainsaw that just needed a slight carby tune adjustment of the high and low idle about a 2 minute job and they told him parts are unavailable and he will need a new saw.
I went to a local mower shop here and was looking at a Victa 18 and the shop owner comes over tells me only 3 of this model were ever made and Victa wanted to buy it from him but he would sell it to me for $1000.
