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@"I imagine most people buying Yeazys don’t have an authentic pair to compare with." — that's right! It's the position I was in, which is what I come close to m

@"I imagine most people buying Yeazys don’t have an authentic pair to compare with." — that's right! It's the position I was in, which is what I come close to mentioning in the article: it's why I made the app in the first place. So even better than that would be a public guide where both the fake and the real are. That, plus somebody who's put in the hours to do a thorough job to explain the differences they've found. @MTG - Somebody was just telling me the other day about these perfect (or 99% perfect) clones of Warhammer figurines. I didn't even know they can reach $1,000+ figures, but hey, with today's asset products, that doesn't surprise me. Magic The Gathering, Pokemon games (not cards — we've covered a free guide on that), Warhammer — it seems like sky is the limit really. Whatever can be replicated and is worth $200+ will be replicated IMO > I’m wondering how “counterfeit aware” payment processors (VISA, Mastercards, etc) are becoming? A bit more! They trust our Certificate with less pushback these days, more than 2 years ago, when we discovered our Certificate can get people's money back. We guarantee the Certificate nonetheless, so if it doesn't get your money back from the bank or from PayPal, we refund the $60 you paid us. I know you said payment processors, but it's the banks (exception: AMEX) that are responsible for that segment of the transaction, AFAIK — with chargebacks and what have you But if there would be an easily integrable solution for banks/payment processors, I can see them moving vertically into that

ffffwe3rq352y3 5y ago
The problem with counterfeit warhammer figures is that 99% of the players don't care much if its fake or not! Its going to be interesting how it pans out when normal 3d printing can become just as good as their sets.
- jabroni_salad 5y ago
  My experience as a 40k player is that we are there despite GamesWorkshop and not because of them. If you want to play in-person then you will need to accommodate players that want to use customs or stand-ins (I declare this bottlecap to be a tank, sir) because the game is extremely P2W and unfriendly to experimentation otherwise. The Pokemon community is like this as well. Everything happens on a bootleg website, partially because breeding and getting good stats is extremely time consuming, but also because the IRL scene is geared towards kids.
- thatguy0900 5y ago
  Not only do they not care, sources for quality counterfeits are actually a bit of a passed around community secret because gw is pretty quick to have them shut down. The counterfeits are quite a bit cheaper than gw for acceptable quality.

ffffwe3rq352y3 5y ago

The problem with counterfeit warhammer figures is that 99% of the players don't care much if its fake or not! Its going to be interesting how it pans out when normal 3d printing can become just as good as their sets.

jabroni_salad 5y ago
My experience as a 40k player is that we are there despite GamesWorkshop and not because of them. If you want to play in-person then you will need to accommodate players that want to use customs or stand-ins (I declare this bottlecap to be a tank, sir) because the game is extremely P2W and unfriendly to experimentation otherwise. The Pokemon community is like this as well. Everything happens on a bootleg website, partially because breeding and getting good stats is extremely time consuming, but also because the IRL scene is geared towards kids.
thatguy0900 5y ago
Not only do they not care, sources for quality counterfeits are actually a bit of a passed around community secret because gw is pretty quick to have them shut down. The counterfeits are quite a bit cheaper than gw for acceptable quality.