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Originally Posted by Spect3r
The problem is the fakes they make.
You wanna go ahead and make a new case with your own designs and let people know they are custom made? Sure, no problem.
You wanna go ahead and make forgeries of existent expensive ones and sell them as the real thing? Now, thats a problem.
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Yeah, as someone who took a break from steelbook collecting for a couple years, and wanted to come back, this was really tough to see. Third party marketplaces seem flooded with counterfeits. It was hard enough being on the hunt for rare steels before. Now it's even harder trying to sift through the fakes.
Like the link sinan posted about the Tlou steels, nothing in that listing suggests it's a fake. It even comes with the german slipcover that amazon.de first shipped them with! Thousands of positive ratings on that seller profile too. If I still needed that steel, I'd have likely bought it at that price thinking I was just getting a deal.