Hmm. Think the Sea Foxes would just give you a wink and a nudge if you bought a few of their "Available to all" OmniMechs, then bought a whole pile of Clantech Omnipods for "custom configurations", even if both you and they are perfectly aware that those pods will never be used on a Clantech machine?
I doubt they'd even wink or nudge as long as the payment was made.