Fake steelbooks

[Coelacanth]

Originally Posted by Seesternmann

If it turns out that from now on all the Fantasyboxes will have inlays which read steelbook, I'm pretty much done with collecting steelcases. I simply don't want to tripple check every time if I'm buying a genuine steelbook or if it's one of those Fantasyboxes.

Although I have to admit that their designs are nice and the quality of their cases is not bad (for those who do not know: I paid more than 100€ for a steelcase of which I thought it would be the original Titanfall 2 Steelbook. Only a few months later I found out it was the Fantasybox. Money wasted ...), I do not want to spend any money on their products as I do not want to support this.
Plus, even if I would consider buying their steelcases, it's simply too expensive as they're releasing so much new ones every month.

The fact that Scanavo is doing nothing about this was to be expected, but I have no idea what to do other than informing them.

Anyway, in case anyone of us can confirm that more Fantasyboxes will have the steelbook brand on their inlay, pls post here with links and photos. Hopefuly we can stay tuned of any new developments so that everyone of us is aware when buying steelcases.

I will give you a clue, not sure are you one of the instagram steelbook community, there is a instagram account named sksteelbook or whatever has some nasty relationwith fantsayBox, his cousin (the boss behind FantasyBox) is living in Germany, not sure wheher sk still has any business with his cousin now, but before he did ask me to sell him a brand new sealed "the last of us remastered steelbook", considering there are so many "FAKE" TLOU re steelbook flooding the market, I can't help to relate something together, maybe he was trying to learn something from that steelbook to make their fake steelbooks as real as possible?


BTW, it seems that they might have some business with a US based seller name game4you or whatever, but i am not sure.

And now there are so many fake steelbooks on DE ebay, they are hiring the "partner" to help them redistribute the fakes, it really pissed me off!!!

those fake steelbooks are destorying the collecting community.

WHAT A SHAME!

[sinanspd]

Besides everything mentioned here and all the stress it adds to the buying experience, this is hurting the relationships in the community as well. Maybe it's just me but I have bought around 20 steelbooks this month and for a few of the high value ones, I found myself having to drill the seller with questions on the origin of the item, where they got it, and have to ask for a picture of every inch of the book.

People who are collectors themselves are usually understanding of this behavior but when it's just a regular person who happened have got lucky and bought the item on launch, they get annoyed pretty fast.

Here are a few sellers on eBay that I am aware are selling these custom books, just FYI:

mapcustom - based in UK
kev2a1988 - based in France
l2kid2l - based in US

They are making sleeves too now. I am not talking about putting on a transparent sleeve with nothing but a PS4 logo, sleeves exactly identical to the original with the text and images and artwork. I almost fell for one a few weeks ago, thankfully Spect3r stepped in and warned me last minute. There was a slight color discrepancy in the PSN logo and the blu ray logo at the bottom.

This was for TLOU RE which was also mentioned by Coelacanth above. They might be trying to get this one right since it is selling for high prices

Fake vs Real below
https://freeimage.host/i/dU7Ils
https://freeimage.host/i/dU7TUG

[Spect3r]

I still think people are overreacting on this but ok.

[dj.brouk]

Is it possible to tell the difference between the original and a custom steelbook?
Thanks.

[origammirip789]

Fakes has FANTASYBOX written inside below the disc holder


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[dj.brouk]

And the original in CE was not wrapped in foil, right?

[origammirip789]

Originally Posted by dj.brouk

And the original in CE was not wrapped in foil, right?

Mine was not)


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[riva128]

Originally Posted by dj.brouk

Is it possible to tell the difference between the original and a custom steelbook?
Thanks.

there is a custom similar to the gold steeelbook edition, not this one.

[dj.brouk]

I've looked at 3 unboxings, and none are wrapped.

Seller says that he has it wrapped sent directly from UBI as compensation for damage.

[Umbrellachef]

Originally Posted by dj.brouk

Is it possible to tell the difference between the original and a custom steelbook?
Thanks.

Order the collectors edition then you know it’s no fake and then sell everything else soon - most time it is much cheaper then waiting for a stand alone Steelbook on eBay where it could be damaged, fake, etc


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