Well its simple - We use these ourselves in our work areas and had to buy bulk from overseas when we could not find a suitable heavy duty winch in the local market. There are plenty of electric winches on offer on eBay in the lower capacity range but none that truly met the over 1 ton rating. What has also come to light is that many of the winch retailers are keeping costs down by using smaller motors and in some cases even smaller chassis.
What we ultimately needed was quality and capacity and it seems that the local market was geared towards economy and price.
Having purchased the first lot of electric winches and found that there are many more people looking for capacity and quality over price we intend bringing in other smaller shipments of the same high speced unit.
It has been pleasantly surprising to hear some of our client echo the same.
We do not stock the smaller 400/800kg or the 500/1000kg winches and only retail the larger heavy duty 600/1200kg model with the larger motor. We import very small quantities at a time (usually 10) and find that these go quickly.