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

nandric said:

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

than objects of our desire."

Huh? 

Did you check out the photo of the arm that is being called a fake? It is not out of focus and there are multiple pictures. I've visually compared it to a "real" arm and o can't see any differences. Does anyone know someone who bought this arm from the vendor and can report directly on it being a fake?

@raymonda

This is the fake
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sme-V-Tonearm-With-Denon-DL-103R-Pro-Cartridge-apply-Garrard-Micro-Sata/253...

This is a real SME-V
https://sme.co.uk/audio/product/series-v/
http://www.audioaffair.co.uk/sme-series-v-tonearm

Look at the picture of the mounted fake arm -- look at the V -- see the lack of Serif’s? If you can’t even screen print the font correctly ...

Furthermore look at the "arrows" on the VTF adjuster -- they should actually be arrows/triangle shapes, instead they’re just rectangles ... you need to pay attention to detail! (time validating luxury handbags teaches you this stuff)

and to me the photos in the fake listing are pretty bad - eBay allows very large clear images, these look like they were taken with a phone in a hurry

Real SME is beautifully machined and fit and finish is perfection. Fake SME in the photos is made with every part being rough cast out of something. Fit and finish is garbage, misaligned parts, gaps, etc. Printing is garbage. Leads are wrong.

All the way down to the fake Canare tonearm cable (which SME never even used before) with wrong printing.

These people are 100% disgusting criminals. Report. And stay away.