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Originally Posted by Fballguy
Cards are REALLY bad. I'm almost completely turned off to them....and I only say almost because the desire still exists...it's just that every time I go looking for one I see the number of unlicensed reprints and immediately lose interest again.
Pins have been ruined for me too. There's a guy on ebay making pretty nice fakes and lots of them, so he's diluted the market in my opinion.
Football helmets...Forget about it. Everyone is reproducing old football helmets these days. The average guy would never be able to tell the difference.
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All of this is such a bummer. I think the pins are pretty easily detected, for the most part, but it's a bad trend. And agree about football helmets. Some folks innocently making repros for themselves or to sell as such are extremely good at it. Of course, those are often later sold by others as legit, game worn helmets and then there are people who make them with fraudulent intent. There is a guy who used to sell a lot of fake "game worn" baseball helmets on eBay. And people bought them. There is a seller now who makes nice repros and sells them as such, so I'm not referring to him.