Comment by em-bee

Comment by em-bee 2 days ago

i highly doubt that. i have never seen a counterfeit lego set with an actual lego logo. even in china that would not be legal. someone would have to specifically target bricklink shops to sell such bricks.

if you get fake bricks you might not open a support case to get the bricks replaced, but you would complain and report that shop. with enough reports coming in someone would look into that. so i feel that this is unlikely to happen. at the worst case it's someone clueless, mixing in alternative brands by accident. but i expect someone doing that intentionally would be shut down quickly by reputation only. i mean, shops get closed simply because they get to many complaints about taking to long to ship.

fsckboy 9 hours ago

>i have never seen a counterfeit lego set with an actual lego logo

how would you know? you may never have seen a crappy you-could-tell-it-was-counterfeit with the lego logo, but a high quality copy? that can't be beyond reach of injection molders

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em-bee 5 hours ago

see my other comment on how unlikely it is that someone is able to sell that. they can fake the bricks, but faking a complete set with a box and instructions is much harder and even in china that can't be sold openly. you would have to distribute the bricks just like you distribute counterfeit money. how likely is that? there would have to be a black market for that. the only way to sell bricks without packaging in volume is on sites like ebay. but even there you probably can't sell that much fast enough to make it profitable without anyone noticing.

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flir 2 days ago

> i highly doubt that. i have never seen a counterfeit lego set with an actual lego logo

Question: do the legit brick manufacturers equal the quality of Lego? I picked up a Lego-compatible set years ago, and it didn't quite fit with Lego blocks (I'm assuming due to poorer tolerances).

I admit I have no knowledge here, but if 100% compatibility is possible, faking the logo doesn't seem like a high bar. If you were buying fake individual bricks (not sets), how would you even know?

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em-bee 2 days ago

the quality is generally equal, but there is more variety i suppose. what you describe sounds like extremely bad quality. if you can share the brand then maybe someone can give more insights.
producing bricks with a LEGO logo is a low bar. selling them is more difficult. you need to sell a lot of them to make it worth it. in order to sell them at scale on bricklink you would need to target a lot of stores. how would you do that without the storeowners knowing? a single store would not sell enough without being noticed.

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- littlecranky67 2 days ago
  
  I would disagree. Quality is a hit-and-miss. I have some cheap chinese manufactured bricks that are far off the lego quality, and some others which have on-par quality and better color consitency.
  
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  em-bee 2 days ago
  
  yes, but it depends on the brand. there are some brands that have reliably good quality, and some that don't. i have been buying various brands in china for 10 years now and the quality was always decent or good.
  
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- flir 2 days ago
  
  > share the brand
  Honestly, it was a long time ago, I don't think it would say anything about the quality today. But I think it was MegaBloks.
  
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