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It has never happened to me with an MLP, but it did happen with a care bear. I live in Canada, we only had the original ten bears, same as the USA. But at a yard sale here, many years ago, I found a Harmony Bear (the purple one with three hearts on her tummy, not the music symbol one). I didn't recognize the character, and figured she was a fakie. I left an original, vintage, Harmony Bear that was priced at a dollar (a dollar!) behind. (That's the equivalent of not recognizing Sweet Scoops or Rapunzel, to put it into perspective).
I thought the Sour Sweet Equestria Girl was fake, probably the odd color scheme.
Quote from: Thunderwing on April 30, 2016, 01:14:10 PMIt has never happened to me with an MLP, but it did happen with a care bear. I live in Canada, we only had the original ten bears, same as the USA. But at a yard sale here, many years ago, I found a Harmony Bear (the purple one with three hearts on her tummy, not the music symbol one). I didn't recognize the character, and figured she was a fakie. I left an original, vintage, Harmony Bear that was priced at a dollar (a dollar!) behind. (That's the equivalent of not recognizing Sweet Scoops or Rapunzel, to put it into perspective).Oh no!!! If it makes you feel better that was the 20th Anniversary version, not the vintage one. I almost did the same thing though. I found vintage Day Dream, Harmony and Surprise bear at a thrift store here in Calgary. My carebears had been in storage for over 10 years at this point and I thought I had them all so I started to walk away. I did recognize them as not being one of the main bears so I turned around and grabbed them, they were only $5 each. Got home and looked them up and was sooooo happy I did! This was about 2 years ago now, I finally got my bears out of storage and I did not have them so that makes me even happier I didn't pass them up, that would have haunted me for the rest of my life. I did know they were authentic though.As far as ponies go, I don't think I've ever thought one was a fakie, I know what to look for. Maybe the closest would be my MOC Argie that I bought on ebay back in the day. At the time no one knew what they were and they were cheap enough so I bought one, not sure if it was a fakie or real. It wasn't until I started collecting again in the last few years that I found out about Nirvanas and found out what she was.