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Default Sliding mitre saws (B&Q Macallister !)

Hello,

For too long I have managed with one of those "handsaws in a frame"
mitre saws and I was thinking of buying a sliding mitre saw. I've
tried to use google to look back at posts in this group and they don't
seem very complimentary about cheap brands. I realise you get what you
pay for to some extent but is all this criticism justified or is there
some brand snobbery?

B&Q's own-brand Macallister saws are only about one hundred pounds
with further discounts in the sales at the moment and seem much
cheaper than anywhere else. But I read on old post saying that GMC
make Macallister for B&Q and that GMC went bust last year. If that's
so, how come there's so much of their stuff still about?

Does this mean there is no after sales service and no spare parts to
be had?

I will pop into a shop to see one in real life but some old posts
suggested they were neither rigid nor accurate. Have things improved
since these old posts were made?

Is it that these GMC/Macallister ones are particularly badly made or
are these criticisms common to all cheap mitre saws?

OTOH surely anything is better than what I'm using at the moment!

TIA