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Quote from: Leikin on August 17, 2018, 02:23:33 AMYes, THere WILL be scammers in the future. But with a repro mark that would be harder to do, wouldnt it? Marking stuff as reproduction does not stop scammers. Anyone with some time/skill/tech can get around watermarks with little-to-no fuss, and if anyone was actually trying to pass off their bootleg as the genuine deal, they would probably do so. The only thing marking repo's does is (maybe) tell an uninformed buyer/seller that they have a reproduction on their hands, if they notice it.
Yes, THere WILL be scammers in the future. But with a repro mark that would be harder to do, wouldnt it?
Quote from: Leikin on August 17, 2018, 02:23:33 AMOf course not. Why make it uglier? You can make it prettier if you want, or just alike. Just be sure to mark it accordingly (if they can be confused with originals)if they would ever change hands. (Mark it on the back, if you dont want it visible when displaying) Don't tell others what they should or shouldn't do with their own time / skills.
Of course not. Why make it uglier? You can make it prettier if you want, or just alike. Just be sure to mark it accordingly (if they can be confused with originals)if they would ever change hands. (Mark it on the back, if you dont want it visible when displaying)
Wow. I never said that YOU where lazy, just that it sounded lazy to not want to put repro or watermark on a thing,
I'm sorry, but to me it just sound a little lazy to just say "meh, its already easy for people to scam if they want to, so I dont care if people will be scamming others with my repros".
just because you dont care what people do in 50 years.
I'm not talking about 50 years down the road, but maybe 4-5 years. I dont even think ponycollecting will be a big thing in 50 years, so you probably dont need to worry ablut that.
but to the whole point if people just dont care enough on what happens to others, because it just dont bothers them.
Sure, you may be dead in 50 years, but does that mean that we should not care?
I think we, as a comunity have the responsibility to preserve to pony history, if people will still be collecting in 50 years. So in that mean, yes, it IS lazy to not mark repros, just because you dont care what happens 50 years down the road. (and again, you said you would mark them, so not intended to you, but in general.)
I'm concerned about that people will not know the difference in the future, be it 5 or 50 years.
No you cant control every situation, but you can do what you can to prevent it from happen.
And being realistic, yes, making repros that look exactly like the original WILL be mistaken as originals in the future. We can try to prevent that.
Again, my concern is that people will unknowingly buy things they think are real, from anknowingly sellers, and somewhere along the line we will loose the grip on what is the real deal or not, if they are not properly marked.
And yes, most seem to agree that they should be marked, so I dont understand why some people feel the need to still argue about that I'm wrong, as most seem to agree that it should be marked? I really dont get that.
And if the thought that I may have called you lazy bothers you, maybe you should tone done your own sarcasm a bit, as it is never a good way of keeping a discussion friendly.
Yes, Snuzzle did but only in the UK and only for a very short amount of time, possibly as little as 6 months.
It happened in 1987 and it came with the rarer tags including those with Mountain Boy names (and the infamous 'Storm' tag).