Say it ain't so... Scrooge Counterfeit pin (92576)
So I got a pin off the bay that was, of course, too good to be true, and coming straight from Hong Kong (should have known, right?). I bought it, knowing it would probably be a dud, and kept watching the seller and they have repeatedly put this pin up, using the same picture, so that was a bad sign too. Well, the pin has finally arrive and, in all honestly, it could have been worse...
The pin is nice, no paint dips, good gloss, no frame on the back. I was pretty stoked, actually. Then I noticed it. Scrooge is missing a black line on his bathing suit. Here's the pinpics pic:
The bottom stripe on Scrooge's bathing suit is gone. It's not just not filled in mine, but there's not metal frame for it, it's just not even in the design. So I'm wondering if this is a problem with the set, as in, do other people have this problem, or if I really did get a counterfeit. The back of the pin is okay, no frame, though it's a little rough. And the second "i" in "Limited Edition of 200" doesn't seem to have been struck right, but I've seen those types of problems in real pins, so who knows. It does not, however, have a serial number print on the back, which I think the others in the series do.
If you have the pin, I'd love to see a picture of it. All in all, I'm probably just going to scratch this one off my wants list. Because if it is a counterfeit, it's a darn good one, hahah!
Any help is appreciated. :3 Thanks!
~Merlin
The pin is nice, no paint dips, good gloss, no frame on the back. I was pretty stoked, actually. Then I noticed it. Scrooge is missing a black line on his bathing suit. Here's the pinpics pic:
The bottom stripe on Scrooge's bathing suit is gone. It's not just not filled in mine, but there's not metal frame for it, it's just not even in the design. So I'm wondering if this is a problem with the set, as in, do other people have this problem, or if I really did get a counterfeit. The back of the pin is okay, no frame, though it's a little rough. And the second "i" in "Limited Edition of 200" doesn't seem to have been struck right, but I've seen those types of problems in real pins, so who knows. It does not, however, have a serial number print on the back, which I think the others in the series do.
If you have the pin, I'd love to see a picture of it. All in all, I'm probably just going to scratch this one off my wants list. Because if it is a counterfeit, it's a darn good one, hahah!
Any help is appreciated. :3 Thanks!
~Merlin
And my, that is quite a good counterfit!