Just strange packaging, or a fake? Spyderco Embassy

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So, I'm a little late to the game. I just recently found out that in Indiana, autos are now legal to carry and own. I immediately went out searching for a Spyderco Embassy. I was just randomly looking through the autos section on BF, and I found one for sale. It was exactly the model I was looking for, and the price was more than fair. I bought it, and when it arrived, I was slightly thrown off by the packaging. It wasn't what I expected as I have a lot of other Spydercos, and their boxes are all very similar. The packaging just felt off, and it bothered my OCD. After holding the knife, and opening it a few times, and looking for anything that might seem off, nothing caught my untrained eye. In my head I chalked it up to... maybe it was a very early production model, and they changed the packaging afterward, or maybe this is just the packaging Spyderco uses for their automatic knives, I wouldn't know since I've never previously owned one. That was around 4 weeks ago. Fast forward to today, I get online and see another Embassy for sale. The picture shows the standard Spyderco packaging, not this flimsy blue box with a sticker that I got. Now it's bugging me, and I would like a second opinion. The pictures were removed from the original thread, but I found that the user has a website, where the knife is still listed for sale, with the original pictures that were in the thread, minus the pictures including the packaging.

The URL is here:

http://www.lgmartialarts.co/spyderco-embassy-automatic-knife-3-13-satin-plain-c121p/

Any insight or information would be appreciated.
 
Well the box is certainly not original or anything Spyderco makes but it's very tough to see anything as far as details in those pics. The little bit that I can make out I don't see anything that's looks suspect on the knife itself.
 
I don't have a very good camera, but I'll try to take some clearer pictures and upload them.
 
Here are some more photos...

http://s1315.photobucket.com/user/TuCrafty/library/?sort=6&page=1

I searched the product code on the front of the box["CN210661"] on Google, and it's the UPC for one of those cheap Chinese stiletto folders that you would find at a flea market, or on eBay. This looks like the packaging a knife like that would come in, so I'm hoping that he maybe got rid of his original packaging from the Embassy, and threw it into another knives box so that it would arrive safely?
 
The knife looks good to me I think he probably just lost the box.
 
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