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SME V Tonearm on eBay Hong Kong Sellers are FAKE!!!

These scumbags have been selling these for a while now. It comes from multiple accounts originating out of Hong Kong. They sell on average two SME V tonearms a month, at $1400-$2200, auction style. Fellow audiophiles, please stop buying these. They are 100% fake. They are cheap hideous copies.

Report and do not buy from sellers: mandy-930 and makiyo2008
invictus005
invictus005 OP
597 posts
 
https://m.ebay.com/itm/Sme-V-Tonearm-With-Denon-DL-103R-Pro-Cartridge-apply-Garrard-Micro-Sata/25349...

They're back! And someone is already bidding and will get ripped off. Or the clueless guy will use it and never know what a real SME should look like and sound like.

I reported. More people should do the same.
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mid40sguy
116 posts
 

If it seems to good to be true.....

Simple fact, reproductions/counterfeit is indeed theft.

schubert
4,867 posts
 
Lots of things are illegal here whose laws against are never  enforced .
raymonda
847 posts
 
What are the obvious tell tale signs that this is a fake? 
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folkfreak
1,149 posts
 
Other than the rough finish (although hard to tell in the crummy photos, btw out of focus photography is almost always a give away) the big tell is the lack of serif on the “V”

compare with

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F282864554524
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