Author Topic: Fakes?  (Read 2698 times)

Offline Wesley Myers

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Re: Fakes?
« Reply #10 on: April 12, 2013, 18:03:30 »
It would be great to get a lot of random parts and be able to mix and match!

Where do they get their lots?!

Offline tahra

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Re: Fakes?
« Reply #11 on: April 12, 2013, 18:20:45 »
Where do they get their lots?!

That I would LOVE to know!

If I could pick the odd ones I wanted I'd go for it... not random though..

Offline gixchange

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Re: Fakes?
« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2013, 17:23:37 »
Thank you Rasputin.  You answered the major question that I had;  which does Playmobil sell large batches of its parts. Maybe that is why Playmobil didn't seem concerned when I contacted them.

Knowing that I can strip down some of the figures and use them as parts.

Thank You everyone for your help.

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Re: Fakes?
« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2013, 20:55:49 »
I don't want to sell some one a knight figure and have them tell me that the hair is fake.

When you use the term "fake," that immediately makes me think of parts that are not original Playmobil.

People (even children) often swap parts on figures. Hair is especially easy to remove and people sometimes forget which hair goes on which figure afterwards. Changing parts doesn't make the figures fakes. It just means that they have been customised.

Most people buying figures on eBay will not mind if you have changed some parts as long as they can see clearly what they are buying. The only problem might arise when someone sells a customised figure and tries to claim that it is a rarity or an exclusive.

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Re: Fakes?
« Reply #14 on: April 13, 2013, 22:20:41 »
It appears from some of the other posts, that some companies are able to buy large quantities of parts from Playmobil.  That appears to be what the person I purchased these figures from does.  They then assembly them in some bizarre ways such as a woman in a modern tennis outfit with an Egyptian head piece.

I just going to strip them down and use them for parts.

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Re: Fakes?
« Reply #15 on: April 14, 2013, 17:31:30 »
They do not look counterfeit to me - if they are, they are pretty darn good and I'd be happy to have them even if they were. 

Modern/city life figures/sets are not my thing (Knights, pirates, historical are) but Playmodb.org has a "Klickie feature find" option.  You check off what features you want to search by and then it will bring them up (with pictures of them) and then (if the site was working) you can click on the klickie (pun intended) and find out what set(s) it was used in. 

You can find it here:  http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/whoami.pl


who !! thanks !! i never seen that ! it's a great work !!!  jl

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Re: Fakes?
« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2013, 10:06:16 »
They look real to me but you never know.... Be careful when buying from an unknown source I've had a bad experience before and do my research now . GL  :)
Ashley