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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
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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roxy54
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nandric said:

"I think that fashion has much problems with ''replicas''

than objects of our desire."

Huh? 


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nandric
3,263 posts
 

@roxy54 , Objects of our desire are amps, speakers, TT's,

tonearms, cartridges, etc. Fashion are clothes, watches, handbags,

shoes, etc. Imitation or fake is bigger problem by the later objects

''of desire''.

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