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goonermike
PostPosted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 4:37 am 
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Just received this from e-bay - and I'm not convinced it's real. Another of these 'good but not great fakes'? I'd welcome opinions before I send it back to the seller.

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looks fake to me - is it croc ?
u should be able to tell the difference immediately if it is "croc-grain" or the real deal ?
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Fake for me - the misaligned 'Manufacture en' and 'Suisse' seems to be the giveaway. No reason to believe that the deployant is real if the strap is fake.
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The grains look fake

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Here's a couple pics of a real one that just came with my transocean unitime.
I purchased a fake once on eBay, I knew as soon as I felt it and smelled it, got full refund from seller
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Fake.
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Thanks guys.

Seller didn't seem surprised when I asked to send it back. He advises that he only recently bought it as genuine, and will go back to the seller. Wonder if it's our Dutch friend again?

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Update:

The seller confirms that he got this from 'super_joopp' in the Netherlands, so our devious dutchman at it again.

To be fair to the guy who sold the strap to me, he's agreed to refund, and no doubt will open a case against the faker to get his money back.

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Looks like we need to go on a broad reporting spree on our dubious dutchman
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SH!T, I bought a strap from super_joopp. Are you guys saying that all his stuff if fake?? How can you tell???
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FireRN wrote:
SH!T, I bought a strap from super_joopp. Are you guys saying that all his stuff if fake?? How can you tell???


Post a pic of what you got. Front and back.

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I noticed the rubber pro diver straps he sold earlier, have a seam running along the length of the side of the strap, which isn't present on the genuine ones.

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all of his auctions have been ended,all bids have been cancelled !
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natesen wrote:
FireRN wrote:
SH!T, I bought a strap from super_joopp. Are you guys saying that all his stuff if fake?? How can you tell???


Post a pic of what you got. Front and back.

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all of his auctions have been ended,all bids have been cancelled !


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It's the misaligned 'Manufacture en' and 'Suisse' again....

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