Is this an HPI 5B or something else?

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This is being sold as an HPI 5B 5TH scale buggy but I don't recognize all the orange for HPI, looks more like Rovan to me. I'm trying to break into 5th scale but would like to know what I'm buying too, can someone politely help a noob?
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It is! Ok, well it's being represented as an hpi. Hes asking $700, there's other pictures but it looks new. Bottom doesn't have a scratch on it and that's how he's representing it. What do they cost complete like this? Is it still worth that price considering at $700 it would've been a little low if it was an HPI?
Thank you btw!
 
hpi did do orange anodised version mate, and they also did do an orange main chassis as well,
but it could be a km,
there are a few tell tale signs if he has more detailed pics, hpi main chassis has an extra hole offset to one side about a third to halfway along the chassis from the front on the underside, this is a location hole for a plastic stub on underside of the battery box, only hpi had the stub and hole, unless km have change recently that is,
also hpi has there name embossed on the battery box lid,
shocks also have different knurling on the spring prload adjusters on hpi v km,
there are a few subtle differences, but the dude coulda just built a bitsa with an hpi chassis and is trying to pass it off as hpi genuine,
if yer in doubt though, don't buy it (y),
people do try and pass off km's and rovans as hpi all the time, a friend of mine bought one a few years ago , sold as gen hpi, brought it to me to have a look over it, first glance could tell it was a km, it was bought for his grandson who was with hime when he went to pick it up,
so the seller knew he was ripping off a 14 year old kid at the time,
i ended up building him a proper one from spares with a few upgrades etc,
oh dear, i'm off on a tangent with a long post again :LOL:,
anyways, it was a respected member off a different forum that sold him the thing, (don't remember the blokes name now though),
just be very wary when ya but owt used, there are some good deals out there, but also lots of crap on the market as well,
 
spents said:
hpi did do orange anodised version mate, and they also did do an orange main chassis as well,
but it could be a km,
there are a few tell tale signs if he has more detailed pics, hpi main chassis has an extra hole offset to one side about a third to halfway along the chassis from the front on the underside, this is a location hole for a plastic stub on underside of the battery box, only hpi had the stub and hole, unless km have change recently that is,
also hpi has there name embossed on the battery box lid,
shocks also have different knurling on the spring prload adjusters on hpi v km,
there are a few subtle differences, but the dude coulda just built a bitsa with an hpi chassis and is trying to pass it off as hpi genuine,
if yer in doubt though, don't buy it (y),
people do try and pass off km's and rovans as hpi all the time, a friend of mine bought one a few years ago , sold as gen hpi, brought it to me to have a look over it, first glance could tell it was a km, it was bought for his grandson who was with hime when he went to pick it up,
so the seller knew he was ripping off a 14 year old kid at the time,
i ended up building him a proper one from spares with a few upgrades etc,
oh dear, i'm off on a tangent with a long post again :LOL:,
anyways, it was a respected member off a different forum that sold him the thing, (don't remember the blokes name now though),
just be very wary when ya but owt used, there are some good deals out there, but also lots of crap on the market as well,
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Also the shock caps on km rovan are different, they are a solid hex design vs hpi is rounded off, sometimes even the clones have a one piece shock cap (like the tfe bleeder caps) vs hpi has 2 piece. And the orange km rovan Anodizing is a slightly different shade of orange then the hpi orange .
 
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