Goose2k wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:10 pm
I'm pouring one out for the guy who would buy $25,000+ cart without doing even the most cursory research on it.
That's the thing, isn't it? This cartridge is not some shoddy knockoff that can be spotted as fake with a quick glance. This is such a perfect replication that "cursory" research doesn't cut it anymore and that it might fool anybody but the most experienced inspectors. Especially does this mean that you cannot trust
any eBay auction of this anymore.
Goose2k wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:10 pm
They might also be scammers hoping to con people out of 1000s of dollars. If they are, I'll be mad at
them not the creator
Well, it's the creator who produced near perfect counterfeit products in the first place and put it out into the wild for no particular reason and who enabled the scammers to do this kind of fraud.
Also, let's not forget: This is an illegal product anyway.
If I create something that is perfectly legal in itself, and someone else does some shit with it, then sure, it's not my responsibility.
But if someone sells a product that is already illegal to begin with and then the buyer uses this illegal product to do something illegal as well, then yes: I can
also blame the original creator.
If I draw an original picture that I came up with and someone sells it as a van Gogh, then only that seller is to blame.
If I recreate van Gogh's paintings in a nearly perfect manner, without writing my name on them and without marking them as reproductions, and then I have the guts to put them on the open market instead of just hanging them on my wall, then yeah: I'm partly responsible if someone gets conned by a nearly indistinguishable replication of a van Gogh painting.