Sunday, December 9, 2007

How to identify a fake Pinky:st (aka Bootleg Pinky)

The links below are for your own education to be able to distinguish between original Pinky:St and the fake pinky.

Why should you care? Well, first is the resale value. If you are buying for playing then you decide yourself. However, if you are buying for collecting and may be some day for selling, you don't have to think twice of owning an original. Afterall, how much is the resale value of fake painting? Not much once it is known as a fake.

So here are the links:
Pinky Freaks - Beware of Bootlegs! (so there are Korean copy too, not just Chinese.)
www.pinky-street.com : All About Bootlegs

Puuikibeach photo set in Flickr (Fakey Street) is probably the best source of some pinky releases, since he take a very good photo, very sharp, and he have the picture side by side and properly identified. Take a look and shop carefully.

And to familiarise yourself before you purchase any pinky, it is good to see the picture and probably print them too (if you shop in brick/mortar shop).
pinky-street.com probably has the most complete information for all releases but some does not have picture.
Vance Project website has only pictures of latest releases.
Hobby Link Japan has a list of Pinky:st releases which they sell (or had sold and now sold out) and they have picture albeit small.

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