My fake Spyderco Paramilitary

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I am referring to this thread here.......http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...-pictures)ITS-A-FAKE!?p=14859859#post14859859

My question or discussion is what do you do when you find out you just bought a fake or counterfeit item?

I feel so dumb for not studying the item like I usually do but I let a low price sucker me into buying it fast before somebody else bought it.

What do you do in this situation?

What should I do in this situation?
 
Sacrifice the offending imposter to the KNIFE GODS and forever rid the world of the abomination.

And thou shall be blessed with good knife fortune for saving other unwary souls from being duped into purchasing said abomination.

:D

Or keep it and use the hell out of it.

It doesn't seem quite right to return it so that it can just be re-sold and fool someone else. Returning it just keeps another counterfeit in circulation. Just my opinion.
 
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In your case, I think you're stuck. If I'm a pawn shop owner and I sell a "Knife" for $40 as is, I don't think I'd take a return because you later found out it looked like a popular knife but wasn't authentic. I mean if it was labeled "pocket knife" then you bought exactly what you wanted. You also bargained it down.

As far as calling the cops like the other thread suggested, that's wasting your time. Like I said, as long as it wasn't marketed as a spyderco paramilitary 2, then it's not deception.
 
Personally, I would either sell it with full disclosure or give it away.
 
Deligate it to beater status and consider it a lesson learned. Just don't forget the lesson: Buy from reputable people, the majority of pawn shops ≠ reputable.
 
Personally, I would either sell it with full disclosure or give it away.

Or just use it. I see these fakes and other brands fly off gun show tables and the buyers probably never know they ever did get a fake. The spyderco design is simple and easy to copy for cheap. That site which we don't mention sells them in bulk of 300 for a discount, or $13.00 a piece of you get just one. It's not illegal to buy the fakes, but it is illegal to sell them. If the OP could prove they knowingly sold counterfeit products they could get in trouble the puddings in the proof though.

I say use it. Chances are you won't notice a difference other than the steel may be horrible. I have seen some fakes that by chance got heat treated good with their mystery steel to perform ok. I've seen others bend and break doing menial tasks.

From judging by how many I see sold at gun shows there is easily as many fakes as real spyderco a out there. Won't fool any of us here but common knife buyers will never know. Before I buy any knife I do more research on the fakes, than the real ones. If you know what to look for they are easy to spot, even the better fakes can be easily spotted. The high end fakes though, they can actually be pretty darn good. A rip off for sure but better than just decent. They love marking the high end steel brands on Cr12Mov1V1 (Chinese D2) and calling it good. So the blades act like a super steel and some do decent heat treats on the high end fakes..

The one the OP got, it's junk. A gerber from Walmart will most likely have better steel.
 
You should have taken it back before sharpening. Now it is yours. And on that note, you should throw it out. If you pass it on you will be perpetrating the counterfeit industry and hurting a good company's name by keeping around a bad knock off. Plus, do you want to trust your or anyone else's fingers to a junky counterfeit? I wouldn't. Chalk it up to a $40 lesson learned.

And just an fyi, even if you had the appropriate membership level to sell here bfc has a no counterfeit policy.
 
In the big scheme of things it's no big deal 40. Bucks and a lesson learned. Everyday there are people learning much more costly lessons! Use the hell out of it and consider yourself lucky.

Mike
 
In the big scheme of things it's no big deal 40. Bucks and a lesson learned. Everyday there are people learning much more costly lessons! Use the hell out of it and consider yourself lucky.

Mike

This. Chances are you've wasted more than 40 bucks over the course of your lifetime or will in the future. I wouldn't pass it on to anybody. I would relegate it to some infrequent use. And every time you use it, it will be a refresher lesson for you that might save you even more bucks in the future.
 
I'd take it back for a full refund! If they say no , go to your local P.D. and file a report against the pawn shop for selling counterfeit merchandice.
 
Learn from the mistake and move on, the saying "if its too good to be true", very much applies in the knife world also.
 
Use it in the garden, and be happy you didn't get taken for more. Every day people spend thousands for car repairs they didn't even need, or sign up for a high interest rate on a mortgage that costs them $75,000 over 30 years. A trip to the ER that turns out to be a waste could cost you 2k. For $40 you still have a folding piece of sharp steel.
 
This!

Mike

Use it in the garden, and be happy you didn't get taken for more. Every day people spend thousands for car repairs they didn't even need, or sign up for a high interest rate on a mortgage that costs them $75,000 over 30 years. A trip to the ER that turns out to be a waste could cost you 2k. For $40 you still have a folding piece of sharp steel.
 
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Did it really merit a second thread? If you have to ask what you should do when buying a counterfeit item, then I don't really know what to tell you or wht tou are looking to hear from people.
 
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