We know this.
1. Venom has been a stand up guy for the better part of 9 years since he has been here.
2. He recently bought a set of reproductions from imountainteacher on ebay.
3. He listed 30 guns on eBay. Some silver, some gold.
4. There were 33 repro guns out of a total of 36 laser beasts guns made.
5. The marbling is not very apparent in the auction pictures.
6. Those pictures were taken in indirect lighting, not using a flash.
7. The repros have little to no visible marbling and are a slightly lighter shade of silver.
8. Depending on the angle and lighting, an original weapon will show little to no marbling (as evidenced in the picture Saleen took as well as some of the guide pictures).
Your guys arguments go like this:
1. I can't see the marbling, so they must be fake.
- A few people have mentioned to you that if you look over the pictures you can see faint marbling. Go back to ebay and look, it is there but light. The picture saleen took of the groundwolf weapon is a perfect example of the marbling not showing up in indirect lighting.
2. He bought a set of repros, so that proves these are fake.
- He also has a few TGB repros in his collection but that doesn't mean he is listing those. You are making the assumption that an honest person, who has both repros and originals would try to pass off his repros as originals. I also find it amusing that you think I would try to do the same. You are ignoring the possibility that he would list his originals first and sell the repros second. If you had both and were going to piece out your collection, what would you sell first?
3. He only listed those guns that had repros made.
- He listed 30 guns out of 36. There were 33 bootlegs made that he bought. If he were selling the repros don't you think he would have taken the extra 5 minutes and listed the other 3 bootlegs instead of stopping at 30? It makes more sense that he would have 30 originals and list those first.
4. He doesn't come here to defend himself every day.
- He's got a lot more important personal things going on in life now. He explained those to me, but whether or not he wants to share them with you is his choice. I'm not going to post his private life for you to read.
You look at the evidence and because you haven't known the guy very long, you come to the conclusion that they are the repros he bought.
I've known the guy for 9 years and come to the conclusion that the guns he listed on ebay were 100% original and NOT the repros that he bought. WHy? Because he gave me his word that they were legit, not the repros.His word has been good for 9 years. I see no reason to doubt him now, especially with the circumstantial evidence you are basing your conclusion on.