Fake Nendo Reimu?
Sat 2010/06/26 03:46 JST
take a look at the neck...
as well as price
as well as where it is being shipped from
=P
Links to other:
One more...
And another...
And of course, another...
so yea, watch out?
9 USD? It's fake imho =.="
I'm so trying to fight ebay to drop those Hong Kong fakes -_- Even the real figures are made in China but Hong Kong seller + really cheap nendo price= fake.
yupp its fake alright, i can just tell by the price.
Cheap price is definitely a give away in this case. Also note that many of these fake sales often use following descriptions:
And also no mention of Good Smile Company or guaranteeing its authenticity.
They are so evil for making fake replica of exclusives :/
Protip: "[100%] Brand New" or "New in Box" ≠ Authentic.
If a deal seems too good to be true, it probably is.
Go to http://myfigurecollection.net/ to check, as there is usually something up pretty quickly when fakes appear. (Nendo Reimu is on the list already)
what's more scary is that people are buying these bootlegs...
I think most of them are just getting into figures. I'm sure there are people buying them knowingly also.
That reminds me of Sader, which gained so much infamy that I heard some collectors actually want to get one. Ironically, Sader seemed to have disappeared.
It was a freebie from a magazine so that's expected.
i pity the poor soul who would purchase this thing
You can obviously tell these are fake, but what would happen if the factory personel working for Good Smile Company or other famous companies decided to share some of their secrets with bootleg manufacturers?
I'm sure GSC and other companies took their time to ensure that such things would never happen......but you know you can never completely trust people especially if they're undetpaid
I'm sure if the bootleggers want to, they can make better quality bootlegs. But why would they want to do that? They paint these bootlegs shoddily, put them out to the market quickly and sell them cheaply to ready buyers who can't tell the difference. It boggles the mind how some of these bootleggers can amass hundreds of positive feedback on eBay.
Rather than trying to fool veteran collectors by passing their bootlegs for the real thing, the bootleggers probably realize they can make more money selling hordes of cheap bootlegs to newbie collectors. Since most of these newbie collectors can't tell the difference (by themselves) anyway, the bootleggers won't take the time to paint the bootlegs properly. The bootleg sale price is cheap, so there's no economic sense in spending much time to do so. In the labor-intensive figure painting job, time equates to money.
That said, there are a few instances where there's so much demand for the figure that many bootlegs were made and, out of all these bootlegs, some are actually made well enough that they can pass off as the real thing to collectors. One example would be Max Factory Kasumi. At first, it was easy to catch the bootlegs by looking for the split in her hair strands, but the bootleggers soon made many improvements in their next production batches.
Ahh..good point^^;
The fake B★RS in the previous post (http://bit.ly/cvKOTo) got me thinking about its possibility but mayhaps not so.
I'm not surprised actually. Some figures that have not been officially released already have their bootleg counterparts.
Oh gods. Definitely fake. You can tell simply by the price alone... and the packaging.
Then again, I've also seen a fake nendo Snow Miku in a local store :/
The next thing we know, there are also fakes of the WonFes K-On! nendos and limited ed figmas ><;