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Old 24-10-14, 04:26 PM
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Could I suggest members do a regular update of this sellers listings to see what copies are new to the market. It doesn't take a minute.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/pe1ju2/m.h...p2047675.l2562

I realise that after a month or so the link will be invalid but a screen shot can always be taken for personal use. Please don't put the images online here for obvious reasons. Shoulder titles are my personal bugbear, more and more are being reproduced.
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Old 24-10-14, 04:32 PM
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yes, but unlike our other friend. at least he has the common decency to state that these are not original.

Mind you, he's perhaps gone a tad too far with the T/ASC/BLACK WATCH should title!!!!

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Old 24-10-14, 04:49 PM
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You will see my small effort to alert buyers to dodgy Kings Liverpool badges if you look at item 281474055781 on E bay.

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Old 24-10-14, 05:18 PM
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Keith is right about more and more metal shoulder titles being reproduced. Until fairly recently I always considered them fairly "safe" to collect in that there seemed to be very few repros around. Not anymore though. I must admit that I'm surprised that it took so long for repros to start appearing in quantity as I would think they would be fairly easy to fake.

Territorial shoulder titles seem to be the main target so far, probably because genuine ones tend to sell for silly money.

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Old 25-10-14, 12:59 AM
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Thanks, Keith.
It sure is a worry to see such items faked:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Zealan...item35de44ff95

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-off-New-...62330517&rt=nc

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Old 25-10-14, 03:30 AM
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How about this one then ??

This guy even tells us to look closely at the badges, have a read of the info he passes on to the buyers.

FBK

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Civil-War-...item4ad98b3d63
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Old 25-10-14, 10:16 AM
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How about this one then ??

This guy even tells us to look closely at the badges, have a read of the info he passes on to the buyers.

FBK

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Civil-War-...item4ad98b3d63
He will be banned soon by ebay, because of him interfering with other sellers' business.
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