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Millennium Falcon 75192 from Amazon Warehouse sent with fake instruction manual - check ifset fake ?
Afternoon all. Can I pick your brains for a second please. Purchased UCS Millennium Falcon 75192 from Amazon Warehouse. About 30 quid off Amazon normal price due to damaged packaging. However on receipt, apart from ripped and patched up packaging found the instruction manual was a fake ! From one of the 'King' ripoffs. But inner boxes and external packaging appear to be genuine.
After some wrangling with Amazon they have offered 25% refund, which is tempting to keep the set but how do I check the set itself is genuine ?
The 4 inner boxes have quotes from the films and have line diagrams of the falcon in them. Boxes are numbered 6206395, 6206398, 6206399 & 6206400. I've not opened these yet - probably will do tonight to check the individual bags. Fake instruction manual is worn - has been folded in half and well dog-eared. But the white inner boxes are mint condition.
I can only assume someone really wanted a genuine manual. Stickers may be fake as well.
Any advice would be appreciated. anyone aware of a proliferation of good fakes of these historically ?
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And I opened up the inner boxes - instantaneously identifiable as fake ! Biggest giveaway is it comes in a number of polybags - so get a number of number 1 bags - basic sealed plastic bag just a solitary 1 printed in black. The bricks arent marked Lego but also look off in terms of colour.
Each inner box had been very, very carefully opened.
Thanks all for acting as sounding board. Without a doubt this would have been obvious but re-confirmed not to keep it even if it had looked pucker !
I don't know how detailed Amazon product tracking is, but as a Marketplace item rather than off the shelf I assume it may be easier to tracks its history.