There’s one born every minute.
Check out this web page, advertising what amounts to a Baofeng UV-5R with a few basic accessories (most of which I think come in the box, and if they don’t, they’re dirt cheap on eBay or even Amazon) for $320.
Dude, I have two of those. I paid $45 for the first one, and $35 for the second one. The only pieces I don’t have are the audio splitter and the remote PTT switch, and I could homebrew both of them in about an hour.
And I’ll bet nowhere in the ad copy is a suggestion that you need a license to use that radio on just about any service you can name. Moreover, as far as unlicensed (or “licensed by rule”) services go, the radio is not certified or certifiable for FRS (even on low power, the radio puts out more than the maximum 1/2 watt, and it has a removable antenna) nor is it certified or certifiable for MURS use (while the radio can be set to low power (1W), it can be set to produce more than 2W on high power (4W)). The only services that the UV-5R is actually certified for are part 90 commercial radio and part 97 amateur radio. There is no part 95 certification for it at all, even though the prepper whackers keep saying differently (“Well, you know, in an emergency, the FCC isn’t going to be checking licenses or whether your radio is certified for that band”).
I mean, I have a GMRS license, but that still doesn’t qualify my UV-5R’s to be used for GMRS.
Obviously FCC rules don’t matter to people who don’t care, but it tickles me no end that this company probably does sell plenty of these 10x overpriced kits to unsuspecting buyers.