Ten BasketBall Picture LP - How to recognize the PIRATED one

[LostRebel]

I have a copy that I bought off of Discogs. I checked all the differences and can see that the cover is definately a fake. The actual vinyl however looks real. It has the lighter magenta writing on the basketball side and the other side is printed in a very clear way (I've unfortunately bougt bootlegs before, you can tell the printed letters on the vinyl is not so clear/not as clear). I assume it must be fake, but I'm not sure. There is, however, no etching in the inner ring of the vinyl. Does the original have etching? Can anyone help me out?

Original Copy: Side A 468-884-0-A and Side B 468-884-0-B
Fake Copy: Side A 4688840-A and Side B 4688840-B

Note that the etching on the fake copy is really small. You can hardly see those numbers.

[Megadave]

I have a copy that I bought off of Discogs. I checked all the differences and can see that the cover is definately a fake. The actual vinyl however looks real. It has the lighter magenta writing on the basketball side and the other side is printed in a very clear way (I've unfortunately bougt bootlegs before, you can tell the printed letters on the vinyl is not so clear/not as clear). I assume it must be fake, but I'm not sure. There is, however, no etching in the inner ring of the vinyl. Does the original have etching? Can anyone help me out?

Original Copy: Side A 468-884-0-A and Side B 468-884-0-B
Fake Copy: Side A 4688840-A and Side B 4688840-B

Note that the etching on the fake copy is really small. You can hardly see those numbers.

Sherlock Homes was born...........in Greece!!!

[norman-grunge]

I have a copy that I bought off of Discogs. I checked all the differences and can see that the cover is definately a fake. The actual vinyl however looks real. It has the lighter magenta writing on the basketball side and the other side is printed in a very clear way (I've unfortunately bougt bootlegs before, you can tell the printed letters on the vinyl is not so clear/not as clear). I assume it must be fake, but I'm not sure. There is, however, no etching in the inner ring of the vinyl. Does the original have etching? Can anyone help me out?

Original Copy: Side A 468-884-0-A and Side B 468-884-0-B
Fake Copy: Side A 4688840-A and Side B 4688840-B

Note that the etching on the fake copy is really small. You can hardly see those numbers.

That's great Theo. Good job.

I have a copy that I bought off of Discogs. I checked all the differences and can see that the cover is definately a fake. The actual vinyl however looks real. It has the lighter magenta writing on the basketball side and the other side is printed in a very clear way (I've unfortunately bougt bootlegs before, you can tell the printed letters on the vinyl is not so clear/not as clear). I assume it must be fake, but I'm not sure. There is, however, no etching in the inner ring of the vinyl. Does the original have etching? Can anyone help me out?

Original Copy: Side A 468-884-0-A and Side B 468-884-0-B
Fake Copy: Side A 4688840-A and Side B 4688840-B

Note that the etching on the fake copy is really small. You can hardly see those numbers.

Sherlock Homes was born...........in Greece!!!

Great Dave. That made my day. Haha...

[LostRebel]

Sherlock Homes was born...........in Greece!!!

[Mango]

Whats the deal with the amount of pirated copies of this? Like why this in particular? Is it just cause its a snowball effect thing - a few were made and were successful so more and more were then produced?

On a side note for anyone still looking I got my copy for $80.00 (approx €60.00) so they are out there at a reasonable price.

[nutbarz]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... TQ:US:1123

This guy has a fake one, and a SOldier Field one too..

[mcgio]

my copy is original!!!!!

[nutbarz]

Just got this in the mail today. Have to say I thought It may be a fake, but once I got it most of the telltale signes Identified here of the fake were not evident.

The Cat number is Purple on White, with a little printing smear through the 4 like in the picture., The PX is Purple, the Cat number etchings are spaced out, and the front sleeve pic looks pretty good, the only thing is there is a notch semicircle on the right side.. I thought that was a sign of this being fake, but the one on the discog has a notch out.

So, I'm going with its a real one. I'm happy with it. Thank You M Regan in England - and only 32.80GBP / 52.86

I'm Happy, Also Happy to see EIL has the "Acetate" Fixer Cdr, I mean I only pd $5 for it...

[theserialthrilla]

really think we need to take a close look at the "let me sleep" xmas single..far far too many are turning up on ebay for it to only be a small run 1500 and most are mint

im seeing one a week for the past few yers now..

i smell fakes

[LostRebel]

really think we need to take a close look at the "let me sleep" xmas single..far far too many are turning up on ebay for it to only be a small run 1500 and most are mint

im seeing one a week for the past few yers now..

i smell fakes

I agree 100%.
We had started something here viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1430
Maybe we should continue searching about this one.

[theserialthrilla]

thanks for the link i was looking for it ..was hunting for let me sleep..


but i do remeber on one of the roundtable radio shows..that someone had a box full of these..maybe here selling them off

[type_r_2401]

hi im new here and im from Portugal, i bought 10 years ago one copy of ten picture disk and dont know if it was the real deal, cause my brother bought one in a store for 20 euros....
i saw one of that in a sotre the other day for 15 euros...
my disk is the real deal, thanks guys for that information, but the others are the fakes...lol
i think i will buy that for make a clock...lol

Regards
Rodrigo

[VicSpeed]

Welcome Rodrigo!

Happy hear you find out your Ten is legit!!

[massimo]

Rodrigo, that's good idea, if you can get me one fake for €15 I'll do the same!

[Mango]

Whats the deal with the amount of pirated copies of this? Like why this in particular? Is it just cause its a snowball effect thing - a few were made and were successful so more and more were then produced?

Im just curious - any theories?