Yep...this item is sold AS IS and NO REFUNDS there's going to be some unhappy campers when these auctions are over
Here is the main problem with reproductions, IMO. The initial idea of creating a "repro" may seem like a good idea at the time, lets make this item for those that can't afford an original and we can make a few bucks off it while we're doing it, may be the reasoning behind it, ON PAPER, but the true reason is, LETS MAKE A FEW BUCKS. Some time during the process of making these "repro's", some thought should have been put in place on how and where to mark these parts as "reproduction", it could be a simple little thing like they did on the #6 Newhouse Wisconsin and California traps, a simple thing like putting a serial number under the pan or making up a S.Newhouse KENWOOD N.Y. pan, most collectors know that O.C never made a #6 Kenwood marked pan. Every part on a repro should be marked "repro", with the main intent to inform a potential owner that it is a repro. The other problem and probably the biggest problem is "time", after a number of years of being made and sold, someone is going to find them, whether it's by chance or "shady intent" and then some unsuspecting or uninformed buyer is going to snap it up and get monetarily burned big time. There is also those collectors that don't care if they are reproductions, no matter the cost, which in itself creates and fuels the FAKE market and supplies the present day counterfeiters [no names need to be mentioned] with SUCKERS to rob and deceive.
