This issue was brought to my attention last week on FaceBook and I responded with the following.
I'm assuming she/he?? just scans copies of legit decks and prints them..Yes its illegal, yes its immoral, but its also stupid. I can't see how its cost effective. First the quality is pretty bad because it is just a scan, but even then there is all the same work of having to prepare all those scans and organize the production, what about the outer box??? and do they include a ripped of copy of the LWB as well? Either way that all that printing costs money. And the dumbest part of all is they are asking about twice the price of a legit deck.... so how can they expect to realistically sell that many copies. Small quantities would either increase the production costs even more, or if they did produce every deck in quantities in which case they will end up with lots of unsold inventory.... I think they should be shut down for the principal of it and probably will be once eBay receives all the complaints. But even if she did get away with it, I think she would financially have made a big mistake.....which might be the most appropriate outcome of all.... Karma in it most direct form...
This may already have cost her and or the printer a lot of money. Plus a lot of work if she did indeed produce all these decks, (which I doubt). She may try the whole thing again under a different name, but with todays social networking she will be discovered again. After all she has to advertise her products in order to sell them.... it just doesn't make business sense. While counterfeit products is a plague that effects everything from designer watches, bags etc, at least the counterfeit ones are cheaper and the quality reasonably convincing, which doesn't seem to be the case here.....
