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03-03-2018, 09:57 AM | #2 |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Re: Counterfeit Games
It is definitely a problem. Be wary of third-party stores selling popular games at low prices. Always do your research.
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03-03-2018, 10:53 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
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Re: Counterfeit Games
Every few weeks there are a rash of Chinese sellers on eBay offering a specific SJG $20 MSRP item for about $6, postage included. Yeah, those aren't suspect.
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03-03-2018, 01:12 PM | #4 |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Re: Counterfeit Games
My favorite so far is the knockoff Codenames that misspells BELT as BEKT right on the box. But because the photos they use on Amazon are scraped from the actual game's site, you don't know that until you've ordered your "great deal."
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03-03-2018, 06:37 PM | #5 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: MO, U.S.A.
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Re: Counterfeit Games
As far as I know, I haven't tripped over one of these yet. Do these things have a cheap version of the game in them, or are they totally different?
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03-03-2018, 07:53 PM | #6 |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Re: Counterfeit Games
By and large, it's a cheap version of the actual game. Art may be muddy or even pixellated, text is probably OCR from a legit copy (or just scanned to PDF without OCR), and the overall component quality is poor.
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