Bought a 'limited edition' anime figure on eBay for $60 and it arrived looking like a bad knockoff

I grabbed what I thought was a legit collector's edition of a Sailor Moon figure from a seller with decent ratings, but the paint job was all smudged and the stand didn't even fit. Turns out it was a bootleg from overseas and now I'm out the cash and stuck with this weirdly proportioned statue. Has anyone else gotten burned on a figure that looked nothing like the photos?

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thompson.nathan21d ago

Man that sucks but honestly you kinda get what you pay for with eBay anime figures lol. If a "limited edition" is going for $60 when the real one probably costs $150+ that's basically waving a red flag at you. Next time do a reverse image search on the product photos before you buy, saves a lot of headache.

gavin_kelly9121d ago

Yeah but even the reverse image search thing doesnt always work. I've seen sellers steal pics from legit listings and then send you a knockoff that looks nothing like it. The real giveaway is when they have like 5 of them in stock for a "limited edition" that originally had a run of 500. Also check the seller's other items, if they're selling the same figure in 3 different colors that never existed, run.

thomas.parker21d agoMost Upvoted

@thompson.nathan yeah thats true but youre missing the other side of this. The really crazy part is when a legit seller has the exact same stock numbers and you still get burned. Ive had it happen where a seller with 50+ sales of a rare figure sent me a fake that was packed in a resealed box with a counterfeit authenticity sticker. The stock number was exactly what the original manufacturer listed too. So the whole "if its too good to be true" logic doesnt always hold up when the scammers are getting better at faking the entire buying experience. Reverse image search wont catch that if their photos are taken from a real production sample but the final product they ship is garbage.