Counterfeit Gaming Merchandise (Not Dialup Friendly. LOTS of Screenshots).

[banditwolf]

Seen some obvious fake PS3 controllers at flea market.

Also looks like ebay has loads of fake Vita mem cards. I'm curious if they are made from the official machines.

[Gypsy]

eBay has loads of fake everything these days, sadly.

[ragnar14]

Also looks like ebay has loads of fake Vita mem cards. I'm curious if they are made from the official machines.

... Do they work? I thought it was impossible for anybody but Sony to manufacture them, because reasons. Or are they selling non-functional bits of plastic as some sort of scam?

Edit: Pffft, I looked them up. I can get a legit new 32GB card for $75 (Canadian). Bootleg, $70. Why would I bother?!

[MrBonkers]

Because it's slightly cheaper! And the average joe will see it and buy it because it's slightly cheaper not knowing the difference. Meanwhile bootleggers make a hefty profit. It's as bad as repro games being passed off as legit for more than the few dollars they are actually worth. Because it's simply cheaper than a legit one.

[PhantomSentry]

I'm fine with this sort of thing if it's of something that's no longer made AND it's high quality.

I wouldn't see anything wrong with some company making PS2 Guitar Hero guitars, for instance. Any special peripheral only gets harder and harder to find as time goes on and we can't expect the original company to make them endlessly....though I would find it amusing if Nintendo started making the light gun you get with Duck Hunt again.

[KrownKlown]

Because it's slightly cheaper! And the average joe will see it and buy it because it's slightly cheaper not knowing the difference. Meanwhile bootleggers make a hefty profit. It's as bad as repro games being passed off as legit for more than the few dollars they are actually worth. Because it's simply cheaper than a legit one.

I dont know to me repros are either worth the market price or nothing. If its a legit repro/licensed in some manner that to me its no different than what lrg does (thinking of things like watermelon), if its just a straight up bootleg its literally worth nothing, not even a few dollars.

[MrBonkers]

I don't mind official repros. (Though the recently announced MMX and MM2 repros are a ripoff for 100$+. For a 100$ I would expect a new official release of pretty much any of the other games that aren't dirt common or cheap.)
But the crap (Insides are ok, it's the outsides that look like ****) ones passed off as legit and sold near the price of a legit one or just enough cheaper to seem a better deal are the problem.

[GhoostWhat]

Bringing up this old thread to ask: is there a way to determine if a Sega CD is a repro or legitimate?

[zborgerd]

Bringing up this old thread to ask: is there a way to determine if a Sega CD is a repro or legitimate?

Post pictures. Generally have barcodes on the ring. Pretty sure that most early Sega stuff was manufactured by JVC, so sometimes the makings are normally obvious. Not all though, so you need to just evaluate on a per case basis.

[GhoostWhat]

Post pictures. Generally have barcodes on the ring. Pretty sure that most early Sega stuff was manufactured by JVC, so sometimes the makings are normally obvious. Not all though, so you need to just evaluate on a per case basis.

Cool thanks. For some dumb reason I feel like being stupid and pulling the trigger on a copy of Earthworm Jim Special Edition, but with seeing how the games look on etsy, started getting scared about purchasing Sega CD games again.