Article In Auto Mag

bill m · 04-30-2001, 06:51 PM

Hello,

Here is part of an article from Auto Mag, (Automatic Pistol Collectors Association) which I felt some of you would find interesting. It is concerning the "cottage industry alert", which is about fakes and counterfieting and reproductions. This article was about reproduction PL PPK grips. In short, the article is discussing a person selling these reproduction PL PPK grips, which I now quote from the article. "His argument was -- By not selling my one repro grip it's not going to make a difference". The reply was, "if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Your one grip is out there now, and it is going to come back and bite some younger, less knowledgable collector in the ass, as we know that all reproductions will eventually be re-sold with a built in memory loss to the unsuspecting on the second sale." It goes on to say, "Please consider whether you really want to deal with an auction or a dealer who doesn't care what harm he does to our hobby, to whom the bottom line is truly the almighty dollar."

Just thought I'd share this, as it is a problem and is going to only get worse.

04-30-2001, 06:51 PM	#1
bill m User Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 385 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Article In Auto Mag Hello, Here is part of an article from Auto Mag, (Automatic Pistol Collectors Association) which I felt some of you would find interesting. It is concerning the "cottage industry alert", which is about fakes and counterfieting and reproductions. This article was about reproduction PL PPK grips. In short, the article is discussing a person selling these reproduction PL PPK grips, which I now quote from the article. "His argument was -- By not selling my one repro grip it's not going to make a difference". The reply was, "if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Your one grip is out there now, and it is going to come back and bite some younger, less knowledgable collector in the ass, as we know that all reproductions will eventually be re-sold with a built in memory loss to the unsuspecting on the second sale." It goes on to say, "Please consider whether you really want to deal with an auction or a dealer who doesn't care what harm he does to our hobby, to whom the bottom line is truly the almighty dollar." Just thought I'd share this, as it is a problem and is going to only get worse.