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 Author: Sakari13 View Messages Posted By Sakari13
 Posted: Feb 14, 2025 09:11
 Subject: Suspected fake Lego pieces received
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Sakari13 (428)

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Hi

What do I do about receiving suspected fake Lego pieces from a store on Bricklink?

The Lego copyright symbol isn't stamped inside some of the pieces, but they
all don't feel or look the right way.

Ordered 100 Slope #54200 in Trans-Clear. The pieces were purchased as New. The
colour is dull, not bright and clear.
 
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Feb 14, 2025 09:25
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Always contact the seller first
Proceed from there.

NON-Lego is not to be sold here; it's a violation of the Terms..... so reporting
to Admin is apropriate.
 Author: Nubs_Select View Messages Posted By Nubs_Select
 Posted: Feb 14, 2025 12:24
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In Help, StarBrick writes:
  Always contact the seller first
Proceed from there.

NON-Lego is not to be sold here; it's a violation of the Terms..... so reporting
to Admin is apropriate.

Only if there is significant evidence it is fake. Currently there isn’t based
on what was said in the message
 Author: peregrinator View Messages Posted By peregrinator
 Posted: Feb 14, 2025 09:51
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In Help, Sakari13 writes:
  Hi

What do I do about receiving suspected fake Lego pieces from a store on Bricklink?

The Lego copyright symbol isn't stamped inside some of the pieces, but they
all don't feel or look the right way.

Ordered 100 Slope #54200 in Trans-Clear. The pieces were purchased as New. The
colour is dull, not bright and clear.

They just look like older parts to me
 Author: brac.brick View Messages Posted By brac.brick
 Posted: Feb 14, 2025 11:10
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In Help, Sakari13 writes:
  Hi

What do I do about receiving suspected fake Lego pieces from a store on Bricklink?

The Lego copyright symbol isn't stamped inside some of the pieces, but they
all don't feel or look the right way.

Ordered 100 Slope #54200 in Trans-Clear. The pieces were purchased as New. The
colour is dull, not bright and clear.

Older Lego parts are not always stamped LEGO and are still the genuine thing.
Dull may just mean they are from a different year than the others. Part 54200
was initially released in 2004 and still sold today. I would err on the side
of caution before you accuse the seller of fraud.
 Author: Nubs_Select View Messages Posted By Nubs_Select
 Posted: Feb 14, 2025 12:25
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In Help, brac.brick writes:
  In Help, Sakari13 writes:
  Hi

What do I do about receiving suspected fake Lego pieces from a store on Bricklink?

The Lego copyright symbol isn't stamped inside some of the pieces, but they
all don't feel or look the right way.

Ordered 100 Slope #54200 in Trans-Clear. The pieces were purchased as New. The
colour is dull, not bright and clear.

Older Lego parts are not always stamped LEGO and are still the genuine thing.
Dull may just mean they are from a different year than the others. Part 54200
was initially released in 2004 and still sold today. I would err on the side
of caution before you accuse the seller of fraud.

+1 not all lego parts (especially older ones) have the lego logo (or any markings)
and that part has been in use a while so it has also likely had some significant
changes in color overtime
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Feb 14, 2025 12:27
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In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
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+1 not all lego parts (especially older ones) have the lego logo (or any markings)
and that part has been in use a while so it has also likely had some significant
changes in color overtime

Also, transparent parts went from PC (Polycarbonate) to MABS (Methylmethacrylate
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) and the first parts in MABS were cloudy.
 Author: peregrinator View Messages Posted By peregrinator
 Posted: Feb 14, 2025 13:09
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In Help, SylvainLS writes:
  In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
  […]
+1 not all lego parts (especially older ones) have the lego logo (or any markings)
and that part has been in use a while so it has also likely had some significant
changes in color overtime

Also, transparent parts went from PC (Polycarbonate) to MABS (Methylmethacrylate
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) and the first parts in MABS were cloudy.

And older polycarbonate can definitely yellow or turn cloudy