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injury Established Member

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If a friend, through the course of a conversation, mentioned he bought clubs from a site you knew or suspected to be counterfeit would you mention it to him or keep it to yourself?

Was on the phone with a friend when he told me about some awesome driver deals he got through a site called linkch*n*.com (name alone sent alarms off in my head), and the other deal he got through s*n*golf.com (seen reviews on those guys selling fakes). I mentioned the counterfeits and he seemed kind of deflated by the end of the conversation, made me wonder if I shouldn't have brought it up at all.

Interesting side note one that he got from linkch*n*.com was an R9. He went to make an adjustment and some screw came all the way out (never used one myself so going by his description). He sent it in to Taylormade and the replaced it with a brand new driver. Are the counterfeits getting to the point they are fooling manufacturers?

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If a friend, through the course of a conversation, mentioned he bought clubs from a site you knew or suspected to be counterfeit would you mention it to him or keep it to yourself?

The weights do come out, and I have not heard of TM replacing fakes, they do keep them though if you send one in.

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alomar123 Dedicated Member

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Well all of these are fake:

http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale/driv...nhp2-lc-13-2-1

And they look pretty good to me. You wont believe how many pro shops buy fake clubs, and then the customer buys it and thinks it real just cause it came from a retail store.

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clubchamp Great Member

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Well all of these are fake:

I have a funny story about dhgate I bought an "authentic" nfl jersey knowing it was fake but it was only 20 bucks. I get it about a week later with all the tags on it but the quality doesn't look as crappy as I'd thought so I wanted to get it looked over. There is a sports collectibles shop run by a guy for 40 years and he's seen it all from fake autographs to fake jerseys. I took it over to him told him the story about how I got it and he looks it over turns out it's totally official. The guy said that sometimes if you're lucky people will get merchandise either stolen or however that is real but sell them at low prices to get rid of stuff. I wouldn't recommend buying stuff like golf clubs from there because odds are it's going to be fake but I found it funny that my jersey turned out to be real.
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pavespawn Established Member

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The weights do come out, and I have not heard of TM replacing fakes, they do keep them though if you send one in.

But the screw that connects the head to the shaft doesn't. Maybe it was that one?

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injury Established Member

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But the screw that connects the head to the shaft doesn't. Maybe it was that one?

I think that's what my friend was talking about, since he mentioned the adjustable head at the same time.


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Interesting side note one that he got from linkch*n*.com was an R9. He went to make an adjustment and some screw came all the way out (never used one myself so going by his description). He sent it in to Taylormade and the replaced it with a brand new driver. Are the counterfeits getting to the point they are fooling manufacturers?

It looks like he has a real one now. I seriously doubt that TM would make that mistake.

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double_j Dedicated Member

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If he was complaining about the quality or performance then it's absolutely right to tell him. Ditto if he was talking about the outrageous deal he got online (you have to tell him so he doesn't make the same mistake twice).

If he was saying how much he loved hitting those clubs, then probably best to let sleeping dogs lie.

injury Established Member

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ya it was a combination it started with the "awesome deal" and I mentioned it, then he went on about how he finally is outdriving his son. Which I think at most any rate would be psychological or a better matched shaft stiffness that happened to be in one of these clubs.

I suppose at least if one of the fakes bust he has an idea of why instead of blaming Callaway (one of the other drivers he bought at the same time) etc.

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