Fake's on the market
I have created this page to warn my
customers and visitors of potential fake items which are being produced by
dishonest and undesirable characters who seek to make money by ripping people
off. it is also available to my customers and visitors who may be have been
victims of these thieves and to give you a platform on which to warn others. If
you have had an issue please
contact me an I will
highlight the issues you have suffered.
It also serves to raise
your awareness of this issue and to get you to ask the right questions before
buying.
Faking, of things like
combat reports, and other paperwork is rife especially on auction sites
whose hosts take very little interest in whether item descriptions are
historically accurate. Many items particularly those who claim to have
provenance associated with the Battle of Britain or famous aircrew should be
treated with extreme caution. It should not put you off buying, but ask
questions, in most cases it will be immediately obvious if a seller has
something to hide. Do your homework and research there is plenty of
information on the web and in books, quite often fakers make blindingly obvious
mistakes with the History.
You can rest assured if
you buy from Spitfire Spares I have spent many years building up a good
reputation and do everything in my power to check the history and description of
the items I sell. If in the unlikely event that something you buy from Spitfire
Spares is not as described through error you will be immediately refunded in
full.
The following concerns a German grip
that I bought and offered for sale on my site. I made a serious error in buying
this item as my knowledge of German grips is limited and its not something I
usually purchase because it is outside my field of knowledge. Its not a mistake
I will make again and was immediately removed from sale
as soon as I received the information emailed to me shown under. I have
contacted the seller who did not act like someone who had sold something in
error it was clear to me he had plenty to hide and blocked me from contacting
him. He lives in Plymouth and his name is Daniel Potts.
received by me by email
I hate to be the
bearer of bad news, but your "Me163" Grip is not Me163...nor is it original.
This is a copy that was carefully repainted by a seller in the UK by the name of
"superfeedback99" on eBay. They take reproduction
or ground dug items, "restore" them, and paint them to look original, attaching
original buttons to make them look original. No German grip had a red primer,
followed by RLM66 grey - they were all anodized. The electrical codes painted on
each grip were specific to each aircraft type. None of the codes painted on
yours are Me163. In this case, "superfeedback99"
painted them using a combination of Fw190 and Me109G and Me109K codes...which is
a MASSIVE error. The button on the front is for the late Me109G only. Yours
does not have a data plate, and the only grip that did not have provisions for a
data plate was the KG13C...which in this case it is certainly not. This is the
4th grip I have seen them make with the same fake markings and fake paint...
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