Staring down a Williams system 3-7 driver board and its 135 connector pins to replace, I recently ordered a 301. I don't do much board work these days, but I've done enough over the last 20 years that I can't believe I've suffered with a soldapullt all this time.

Anyway, do NOT order from this Amazon listing:
https://www.amazon.com/Hakko-FR-301-Desoldering-Tool/dp/B07BKSLLG9

$236 was indeed to good to be true. They sent me a Japanese FR-301-81 which has no grounding plug and takes 100v instead of 120v. Not sure what would've happened if I tried to use it, but I noticed something was off and sent it back.

Same clamshell as the US unit, Hakko paper/packaging over the clamshell, same accessories, except with Japanese text, instructions, etc. Now that I'm reading more reviews, I'm not the only person it happened to. Maybe they got a batch of Japanese units by mistake and didn't notice the difference. Or are purposely unloading them cheaper?

Yeah, I was just being a cheapskate. I did order a handful of accessories from Hakko direct.

Very good catch. Still some misleading stuff in the listing, like this:
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...and the American part number, which is straight-up wrong:
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Everywhere else it just says FR-301, which is not specific to either county. He also cleverly (or accidentally) never shows the plug.