Cloverleaf
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I guess it depends on how you sit morally. For me if someone is trying to currently sell something then it's 100% counterfeit and criminal, but if it's something that is no longer made then there is no issue. A genuine item will always be worth more, and a non-genuine repro is simply a product for someone who wants the look. What about car parts? I've got several classics for which genuine is soo NLA that if I couldn't get hold of repro items they'd be sat there as paperweights. How about companies making repro decals, or replacement parts for things that have broken such as dropouts on a mk2 Santa Cruz Super 8?To me it isn’t. Both are fake.
Sellers like to use the word reproduction but they aren’t. Once you add that Syncros / Ringle logo to the item or description it’s exactly the same situation as Aliexpress.
If they were produced by the same company (like smoke/darts) then re-pro is the term.
It baffles me that it’s accepted in the community where items are sold between people and at some point that re-pro will be passed off as a real item.