This type of scenario is not new to us......Forerunner Technologies has been in the business for 10 years and it's not without hurdles.
A sales guy would usually say that pitch to get your attention then sway you to other products or they will tell you a long story that their product is EVO but that its of a different brand, make, model, whatever...blah..blah...blah....(at this point you could cut him off and sa "soooo, its not an EVO).... try to ask them to open it up and see the components, there is a lot of ways to make a speaker look like something but to make it perform the same way and to sound the same way is a whole new ballgame.
Many have done the same tactics with B3 some years back and at the end, people have known and learned that only a real B3 speaker is a B3.
As long as there are resellers & importers in this industry who cannot sell their own products based on it's own merits..... or by having to bash another brand to make them look good...... or to blatantly "steal" someone else' hard work to benefit their own interest, the consumers/customers will always be on the losing end of the stick.
If one says they can sell you an EVO Pro Audio product, make sure they will be giving you a real EVO Pro Audio product because if they do not live up to that simple transaction, they are just out to get your hard earned money....what more can you expect for after sales support.
Just for kicks…..ask them what was the story behind the EVO brand and the philosophy on certain design features, they would probably go…..”uhhhhhhh”
Then again, if they sell you something with the EVO brand, they will find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
....of course this reaction is all in the context of...."if someone misrepresents himself"