FAKES..

[rob71]

The problem is that Mr. Poon works with the manufacturing base in China. He has a packaging manufacturer who prints these and they are dead on in respect to gloss, thickness and feel to original cardbacks. The bubbles are dead on as well. The only plus is that he has yet to fake the heat sealed effect to the bubbles (as far as I know).

so what is the difference visually with them? Whats the thing to look out for regards to the sealing of the bubble to the card? Is there an example picture of a Poon fake to compare to a genuine one?

 

[JuniorChubb]

Here you go...

http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=14463&p=196596&hilit=poon+torso#p196596

 

[rob71]

Thank you for the info... what an absolutely loathsome cockroach-like piece of **** the guy is :evil:

 

[Wild Whiphid]

Some guy here in the Netherlands was selling some interesting pieces on a local version of eBay. What got my attention was a carded vinyl cape Jawa, which in itself was odd (said website seems a bit to low-key for selling such an item). However, the fool was also trying to sell a carded version of red cape Bib Fortuna... and that probably caught up with him in the end.

All the items he listed are now gone (they were there yesterday), and he had well over a 100. Guess someone reported it or something...
Good to know there are "guardians" out there (here) who keep an eye out for these scams.

 

[rob71]

Confrontation seems to be the best approach... not in an aggressive way, just a "do you know you appear to be selllling counterfeit items?" and then take it from there depending on response. There was a guy doing that the other day with 12-back Chewies.

http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8781&start=135

He managed to get $250 for one, but the other has now been removed, either because I reported him to ebay or because more than one of us here were on his case.

 

[mumbo]

Haha the Vintage Police, love it as a community we have to stick together and weed out these ******s :evil: keep up the stellar work 8)

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

Haha the Vintage Police, love it as a community we have to stick together and weed out these ******s :evil: keep up the stellar work 8)

Got to the echo the words of mumbo here! Great work guys!

 

[Wild Whiphid]

Seriously... there's red cape Bib Fortuna again, carded...

http://link.marktplaats.nl/682709124

And if we have to believe the seller, it's "no repro".

 

[walkie]

You could've always brought mine off me?

Here's what a real one looks like....

 

[Richard_H]

I like the colour but theyre too pricey for me. I'll saw a few go for £75 USB not too long ago

 

[walkie]

I like the colour but theyre too pricey for me. I'll saw a few go for £75 USB not too long ago

75 usb's???...16 or 32gb?

Real lili ledy burgundy capes would not sell for less than £175, a ****** cape sold for $100 alone on another forum.

I plan to list another very soon, at the cheap end of the market value.

 

[Richard_H]

:lol: bloody auto correct. It was ish

 

[Wild Whiphid]

You could've always brought mine off me?

I wasn't planning on buying this figure... just pointing out that some scammers don't even take the effort to do some research. The whole "carded" issue is clearly a fraud, so I doubt the cape is the real deal.

 

[rob71]

Unfortunately a lot of buyers seemingly don't know either, so even the **** fakes get sold.

 

[walkie]

look at all these fakes bib's!!!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/vintage-starwars-mint-lili-ledy-bib-fortuna-custom-burgandy-coat-/221247204854?pt=UK_Collectables_SciFi_fantasyCollectables_EH&hash=item33835c6df6

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

And his other items too VCJ etc

What about the stormie? Could be poon :evil:

 

[tundra9]

That's not a Poontrooper.

 

[Captainsolo1978]

What this guy Poon is doing is worrying and ruins the hobby.

 

[tiefighterboy]

What this guy Poon is doing is worrying and ruins the hobby.

Th community does not care....now poor copies of cardbacks on the other hand...................Morons. :twisted:

 

[Frunkstar]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=271243855650

Stay clear guys

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

Thanks for the heads up Frank!

 

[poncho]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/30-REPRO-Weapons-for-VINTAGE-STAR-WARS-FIGURES-Blue-Yellow-and-Green-Sabre-/330981112553?pt=UK_ToysGames_ActionFigures_ActionFigures_JN&hash=item4d1002fae9
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........... :evil: this sellers needs taking down! destroying the hobby for loosie collectors and newbies

 

[Jedi_june]

@PonchoBelt: Man the repros are getting ridiculous :roll: need to report this guy.


What's the Gif on your signature? It looks familiar to me, just can't pin point it.

 

[walkie]

@June....I think it's the Dark Crystal.

 

[walkie]

@ponchobelt....I'd happily pay £2.38 for those repro sabers to cut those fuckers in half!!!!

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

:evil: :evil: Reported!

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

What do you guys think to this VCJ?

looks a bit fishy to me?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1977-vintage-Star-Wars-Jawa-figure-/290985612984?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESINDXX%3AIT&nma=true&si=bVlzSieeLX5y6AOQdQaMy3Sn8oM%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

 

[itfciain]

Strange one there Liam - a couple of red flags including bidder ID protected - colour looks a bit off as well and to be honest the end price is quite high even if it is genuine.

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

Thanks for the reply Iain. It is an interesting one?

Any other VCJ experts want to chime in?

 

[JuniorChubb]

I saw this when it was about £150, my first thoughts where its genuine...

Someone may have done a battle-damage custom on a repro cape. All his listings seem to be private and he is 100% feedback so that does not ring to many alarm bells for me. The colour can be hard to confirm from a picture.

The only problem for me is the width of the cape around the neck/shoulders. Looks a bit wide and flary, then again it was the 70's :wink: It might be a bit short at the bottom to, but this could be the creasing.

If I was after one I might have had a punt on this but not at that price...