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08-01-2015, 11:01 PM | #21 |
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There isnt anything wrong with buying restored toys, the problem here is, they are selling the toys as AUTHENTIC. Never been touched up, redone, or fixed. Whereas it in fact, they are doing that. Falsely describing an item and selling it as original is kind of wrong.
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08-01-2015, 11:09 PM | #22 |
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People are receiving high dollar toys they've ordered from Mandarake, with the assumption that these toys have not been altered from their original states. They're paying top dollar prices for vintage 60s and 70s product, mostly tin toys and gokins, only to find out after receiving them that Mandarake heavily restores them. That's a big freaking deal man. It's one thing to advertise an item with restoration and then sell it based on that knowledge. When the buyer is made aware of that, then you attract a buyer who wants that. But it's an entirely different situation when a company secretly does this, omits any of that information that would indicate this from it's listings, and sells these items to buyers at their regular prices that authentic vintage pieces would go for. That is absolutely a despicable tactic.
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There isnt anything wrong with buying restored toys, the problem here is, they are selling the toys as AUTHENTIC. Never been touched up, redone, or fixed. Whereas it in fact, they are doing that. Falsely describing an item and selling it as original is kind of wrong.
Imagine if these hotdogs were made with 75% premium kosher beef and 25% a mix of premium kosher turkey and chicken. Yes it's still premium kosher meats and still quite tasty and kosher (if such a food regulation applies to you), but they're still lying about the use of the poultry fillers while saying it's an all beef frank. Last edited by GoseiWonder; 08-02-2015 at 12:12 AM.. Reason: Slight spelling |
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08-01-2015, 11:49 PM | #24 |
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That is the most perfect way to describe this, bravo.
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08-02-2015, 01:47 AM | #25 |
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I like to think of it as if you were to buy, say, a Marvel Legends figure and somebody did some sort of joint alteration to it that improved the figure. Sure, theoretically, it makes the toy better in the long run, but there's many collectors out there that prefer having their toys in an unaltered form. For Mandarake to attempt to pass these off as unaltered figures is scummy on their part. Luckily, I don't purchase from Mandarake much in the first place, but I don't think I could stop shopping from them, mainly because there isn't another second-hand site for import figures that I'd like more.
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08-07-2015, 05:10 PM | #26 |
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What Mandarake are allegedly doing is repairing damaged versions to pass off as mint condition items to sell at the maximum value. It's kind of hard to understand if you don't care about that sort of thing, it certainly doesn't bother me if something has been repaired to look as good as new, but the problem comes from the fact they're lying to customers to make more money. |
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