Heads up FAKE warning

ace

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Hi Everyone

Sorry i have not been on here much of late i have just been very busy with the events i run.

I just want to give everyone a anther heads up about two fakes i saw at my event London Film and Comic Con last weekend

Ok i saw a trader that i know did not know they were fake its the W H Smith's clear multi loose figure baggy with the big round 8 figure offer for 99p label

The two i saw were to nice for a start, they had figures in the bags like Greedo and Walrusman which the dump bags never had as at that time these figurers were rare and not anyway to be found and the other figures were not in baggys and also the big white round label was wrong , its the label that gives it totally away , the original is not pure white more of a off white cream with age and then there is the black printing the fakes have shiny black ink and the originals are also matte

This is one i just pulled out of my boxes that was opened and i kept the bag at the time , i have sealed bags somewhere but as many of you know that will take me some time to find them but these serve the purpose for now and the seller also have real ones that i took photos of as will but here is the label of my original that i bough back at that time


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These are the images of the traders real ones also

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And these are the fakes

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the main thing is the label and the gloss black print this is not right and these are total fakes

They have been changing hands at around £300 + so its a big thing

One last thing i here some have been graded so this may also yet again be a issues where the graders do not know what they are looking for ?

I am happy to look at anything that people feel i can help them with if you want to ask someone that was there at the time that has a decent memory of the time and the toys that were around then.

Hopefully not as many people will be damaged by this as with the Toy Toni's i exposed last time , but as before its better everyone knows and maybe we find out who is making them ?

Hope that helps the community

Jason
 

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Thanks for the info Jason - I saw pics of these on Facebook posted by someone who went - think the seller had them up for 300GBP each
 

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damn! :eek:

Good post Jason. So much out there at the minute and getting better/worse all the time
 

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Excellent. Another little minefield to be negotiated. Where there's money there's scum.

Good spot and thanks for flagging it up here, Jason. Did the trader say where he got them from? Need to start finding out where these came from.
 

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Great post to keep the community informed and potentially stopping someone getting mugged off.Reminds me a bit of billy boy rodgers baggie scam.
 

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:? To be honest im not surprised an easy scan and print on white sticker paper you could do it in a few minutes. Thanks for letting swfuk know jason! Shame more scum cashing in...starwars collecting is very much in atm loads of newbies coming in and old collectors returning aswell.
 

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I saw someone on a baggie group on fb saying he had bought one off eaby. I will try and see what the label looks like on his post
 

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Nice one. Yeah an easy item to fake but also fairly easy to spot if you know what to look for, as we now do thanks to Jason. What I find amazing is that you could buy 8 brand new Star Wars figures for 99p..!! And is that a small head Han I spy in one of them? Awesome :D
 

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On a related note, are all those 49p stickered Mini Riigs, etc. from WH Smith then? There are so many of them, I assumed they were from the factory.
 

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chipsteak said:
On a related note, are all those 49p stickered Mini Riigs, etc. from WH Smith then? There are so many of them, I assumed they were from the factory.

Toy Toni has bandolier straps and mini rigs with these stickers, so I assume they must be factory applied.
 

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Someone posted a link to the forum on the fb page so they can check. The stickers do look fresh on the guy who ws posting his recent buy on ebay. Hope he hasn't been done over!
 

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chipsteak said:
On a related note, are all those 49p stickered Mini Riigs, etc. from WH Smith then? There are so many of them, I assumed they were from the factory.

Woolworths I think
 

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Woolworths sticker same as the now 49p sticker. One of our member has a woolworths white sticker roundal focus. Its v cool 8)
 

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poncho said:
Woolworths sticker same as the now 49p sticker. One of our member has a woolworths white sticker roundal focus. Its v cool 8)
Here it is lees focus


http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=24149&hilit=woolworths+focus
 

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poncho said:
poncho said:
Woolworths sticker same as the now 49p sticker. One of our member has a woolworths white sticker roundal focus. Its v cool 8)
Here it is lees focus


http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=24149&hilit=woolworths+focus

Fantastic. The dream is that I filled the loft in 1986. Lee is living the dream!

Round these parts it was Lewis's and old favourite John Menzies who were awash with the stuff. I'm surprised their stock doesn't turn up. It's that which made me think those were generic stickers.
 

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Robstyley said:
And is that a small head Han I spy in one of them? Awesome :D

That's a bit confusing isn't it? Why would a small head Han would be in an overstock pack? They were finished with that sculpt early in the ESB run. How would they have any left at the end of the ROTJ line?

In fact, scratch that, aren't these Palitoy overstock? And we all know how rare the Palitoy SH Han is ...
 

ace

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Starzone said:
Did you buy them and get caught out Jason?


your funny mate :) just seeing things that are not right , in the past i would just see it and just tell people i know , now i till as many people as possible now that people are listing to me a bit more ?

yes it is a easy fake but not easy to get right the printing is not what you do today so if you have a real one it is easy to compere the two and see its not right

well get the word out to as many as you can and i would love to find the person doing these but i do not think we will get to the bottom of it ?

j
 
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