Trim Tag for Sale

[Hotrodpaul]

As long as people are paying $275+ for these fake tags there will be suppliers willing to reproduce them. Funny, you never see repo tags with no X codes or the less desirable X11 base code. It always seems to be an Z28 or ss 396 trim tag that is reproduced.

Paul

[Rainer]

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On Ebay last week, a trim tag, along with the area around it was cut off the fire wall of a Z's busted up, rotted body. It sold for $1750. bucks!!!!! A PIECE OF TIN!!!!!


Jeff x2

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The ebay tag with the piece of cowl actually looked like a repro tag. Have a Z28 tag made for $275, pop it on a section of cowl that you cut out, make almost $1500 profit.

Kinda funny that the buyer/cloner literally paid almost $1500 for a junk piece of tin plus another $275 for the tag, when he could have just bought a fake tag and saved a ton. Too bad that in the end someone will get screwed with another fake car.

[Pacecarjeff]

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Kinda funny that the buyer/cloner literally paid almost $1500 for a junk piece of tin plus another $275 for the tag, when he could have just bought a fake tag and saved a ton. Too bad that in the end someone will get screwed with another fake car.

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That is the whole fraud thing.
If the buyer knew it was a repro, he wouldn't buy it, he would just get one made.
He thinks it is real.

The guy selling that cowl section is a crook.
It really should be a crime for him to claim it is authentic.

I bet with a little cooperation from a Govt agency, there is going to be a paper trail for the maker & requester of the phoney tag.
If the maker of the tag is the same person as the seller now.
Then that sounds like a crime to me.
Like selling a copy of a painting -it is deception.

Also those tags are proprietary.
I wonder if the reproducers have GM permission to make them?
That sounds like a crime also.

[Mark_C]

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Yep, couple of times, including one recently that was almost indistiguishable (sp?) from a real tag. Went from an X11 to an X33. Theres a new tag maker in the game.



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Boy, am I sorry to hear that. "Almost", but I surmise you can still find some clues? Please say yes. The day they get these perfect..... well, it will be a sad day indeed.

Lynn

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There is something just a little off on the tags, but I haven't quite figured out what it is, and you certainly wouldn't see it if you were just looking at the tag. I didn't know until I went to save it and found the original one already there.

BTW the VIN is 124379N596610 Body number is NOR258994 should anyone run across it.

[Belair62]

There must not be any infringement issues or GM would not look the other way IMO..