Have you put a Watt meter to the Radio and have it confirmed that it transmitting 8 Watts? They say it transmit 8 watts so you be suckered into buying the radio and comes to find out it doesn't transmit the 8 watts it claims to.
Since they are using your callsign you will be responsible for their action on the airwaves. If they violate the rule, you're the one the FCC comes after since it's your callsign their using. (Just as a reminder)
I'm not going to start a debating war here but I do here Roger beeps on GMRS band. I was actually talking to someone on the repeater side of the band today and I heard the tone when he unkeyed.
This wouldn't been an issue if the FCC knew what they were doing to GMRS by combining the 2 services together and see what a mess it caused, and now they want to put DMR on GMRS oh hell no!!!
I would use the 2 bad radios for parts in case there's issue with the new radio. I'm glad this issue was posted because I was going to purchase this radio, and now I'm having second thoughts