SME V Tonearm on eBay Hong Kong Sellers are FAKE!!!

Ebay and/or PayPal protection is based on buyers money. The

money can be blocked on sellers account and in case of

''default'' returned to the buyer. The general complaint is ''not

as described'' ( in the listing). This obviously apply for items which

are described as ''original'' but are in fact copies. The difference

between SME and FR-B-60 is that the later is described as ''copy''.

I think that B-60 is much more easy to ''reproduce'' with modern

CNN lathe's than SME. Even so the B-60 replica could not be sold

for more than $500 . That is why those are not anymore produced.

The seller was not able to get any profit with this price.

BTW intellectual property is protected for certain time while the

precondition is payment of ''maintenance'' contribution . The added

problem is that patent law in one country is not the same as in

the other. I think that fashion has much problems with ''replicas''

than objects of our desire.