WORST CASE COPIES & FAKES ON EBAY UK

[Kev in Deva]

To all the gang

and a word of warning to any new potential collectors beware of buying anything listed by these sellers, nearly all the badges and medals are very poor quality copies in base metal and I believe they are the same person and they change their trade name like other people change socks.

Avril has more items listed in her online shop (53 Pages!!) than Sunshine, but they use similar code numbers among the title description.

AVRIL 390 located in Leicester.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/17-31-OCTOBER-1914-Y...1QQcmdZViewItem

AVRILS SHOP

Sunshine x10 located in Nuneaton. (close enough to be neighbours?? )

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STORMTROOPERS-MEDDAL...1QQcmdZViewItem

ZENA'S EMPORIUM

formerly trading under Tsunami Relief, if anybody else knows any more of their former trade names feel free to add them to this post.

Kev in Deva.

Edited February 24, 2006 by Kev in Deva

[Michael Johnson]

I note that at least the items listed by Avril390 that I looked at are stated to be restrike/copies.

[Kev in Deva]

Hallo Mike,

thanks for your reply, to my eyes some of the items are identical in the photos, my concern is that the same item gets sold twice, or one "good photo" is used to sell similar items, so therefore what you see, might not be what you get. And a new or beginner collector might not notice this.

Take a look at the Pour le Merite though looks nice with a skull in the centre piece

Kev in Deva.

[Kev in Deva]

To all the gang

and a word of warning to any new potential collectors beware of buying anything listed by these sellers, nearly all the badges and medals are very poor quality copies in base metal and I believe they are the same person and they change their trade name like other people change socks.

Avril has more items listed in her online shop (53 Pages!!) than Sunshine, but they use similar code numbers among the title description.

AVRIL 390 located in Leicester.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/17-31-OCTOBER-1914-Y...1QQcmdZViewItem

AVRILS SHOP

Sunshine x10 located in Nuneaton. (close enough to be neighbours?? )

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STORMTROOPERS-MEDDAL...1QQcmdZViewItem

ZENA'S EMPORIUM

formerly trading under Tsunami Relief, if anybody else knows any more of their former trade names feel free to add them to this post.

Kev in Deva.

ONE OF THE ABOVE NOW TRADING AS:

Seller: michael34810 ( 210)

Feedback: 94.5% Positive

Member: since 28-Aug-05 in United Kingdom

MICHAEL'S EMPORIUM

Item location: Nuneaton, United Kingdom.

Same system of code numbers for poor quality items and bad copies.

On his shop page under Military Items he lists two objects, yet under other items he has 676 poor quality, repro, fake, junk items

Kevin in Deva.