New ‘Faker’ out of Malaysia on eBay
Seller Wishingtree07 has popped up on eBay with many brand new fakes of Scout patches, mostly OA. Here’s a PDF of his offerings.
New ‘Faker’ out of Malaysia on eBay
His descriptions do mention that they are brand new patches and have a heat seal back. Frankly, not sure how he chose the designs to make. For some, the original issue is cheaper than what he’s charging for the fake. You make your own decision as to whether to buy or not, although if you don’t buy then there will be fewer offered in the future.
Update 4/22/08 - More to this story - now seeing these items under a new seller id: YCPATCH as well. I went back and Wishingtree07 is still listing but NONE of their Boy Scout fakes have sold over the past two weeks. That’s a sure way to get this to end. These guys are paying less than $1 a patch. They are hoping for unsuspecting buyers. That hurts us all if they pull it off.
on April 8th, 2008 at 7:40 am
And another new faker , patch–world (two hyphens in the middle), working out of Germany.
Not a lot of Boy Scout items yet. My eye was caught by item 120243932828, a fake cut-edge computer-made version of the 1962 Area 3-A Conference patch. (Two or three of these have gone for $150-200 each in the last month or so.)
on April 8th, 2008 at 7:50 am
(I just realized the words “of these” were unclear. Two or three GENUINE 1962 3-A patches have recently gone for $150-200. As far as I know, the fake I saw is the first fake that has been listed, and has received no bids at a $5 starting price.)
on April 12th, 2008 at 8:19 am
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