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Purchased a Buck Strider knife and didnt know it was a fake until I really researched it. Can I sell this but disclose that its a fake?
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Ok to sell Replica knife??
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As long as the posting is 100% honest it is not a problem. (Keep in mind it is not a replica, it is a fake.)
A replica implies something different than a fake to a lot of people.
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Replica
A replica is meant to be an exact copy of the original and is meant for display purposes. There are examples in sports where teams winning world cups are handed over replicas while the original trophy is kept safely being more expensive and of antique nature. Replicas are often used in museums for display purposes. In market, if you find a seller showing a replica handbag (Gucci), it means that the bag has been made by another company and may be identical in looks and also same material may have been used to make it. But still it is only a copy of the original and not the original itself. The bag will of course carry the logo of the company making it and not the Gucci logo. You are told that it is a replica and that you are getting it at a fraction of the cost of the original. This is the biggest feature of a replica and you are not duped in any manner.
Fake
As the name implies, a fake is only meant to deceive the customer and lure him into buying the product. In this case, not only the quality of the product is very low, the manufacturer does not use his own logo but keeps the logo of the original thus giving an impression that the customer is getting a chance to buy the original at throw away prices. This of course has a great effect on many buyers and they buy fakes thinking they are actually buying original product.
Read more: http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-replica-and-vs-fake/#ixzz1mTq5MNNu
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That particular knife was made with the intention to deceive. I would like to hope that a buyer of your knife would also be honest should he/she decide to sell.
To me personally, the best thing that could happen would be for someone to keep and use it or destroy it.
A replica implies something different than a fake to a lot of people.
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Replica
A replica is meant to be an exact copy of the original and is meant for display purposes. There are examples in sports where teams winning world cups are handed over replicas while the original trophy is kept safely being more expensive and of antique nature. Replicas are often used in museums for display purposes. In market, if you find a seller showing a replica handbag (Gucci), it means that the bag has been made by another company and may be identical in looks and also same material may have been used to make it. But still it is only a copy of the original and not the original itself. The bag will of course carry the logo of the company making it and not the Gucci logo. You are told that it is a replica and that you are getting it at a fraction of the cost of the original. This is the biggest feature of a replica and you are not duped in any manner.
Fake
As the name implies, a fake is only meant to deceive the customer and lure him into buying the product. In this case, not only the quality of the product is very low, the manufacturer does not use his own logo but keeps the logo of the original thus giving an impression that the customer is getting a chance to buy the original at throw away prices. This of course has a great effect on many buyers and they buy fakes thinking they are actually buying original product.
Read more: http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-replica-and-vs-fake/#ixzz1mTq5MNNu
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That particular knife was made with the intention to deceive. I would like to hope that a buyer of your knife would also be honest should he/she decide to sell.
To me personally, the best thing that could happen would be for someone to keep and use it or destroy it.
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To chime in late, I purchased a fake SMF on the secondary market quite cheap compared to what they were running for with the intent to remove all logos and modify...so it being a fake, you have nothing to lose playing around with the aesthetics and sanding the strider/buck logos off and might be worth holding on to for tinkering purposes. Or before selling have the Strider logo shot blasted off assuming yours is only etched on and not stamped.
My 2 cents.
My 2 cents.