Incredible really that other forums don't seem to see how it could be a problem that so many of these badges can be so easily found...
Easy to understand. Where are they coming from? Mainly the forum dealers and main sponsors... and as we know, try and tell them they have a fake, and you`ll be jumped on by others as a trouble starter, and banned.
You would never ever be allowed to start such a thread on the WAF, or any other forum. It would make them look bad, raise too many questions as well... so the fable that these are rare, and genuine worth so much money needs to continue.
And we know just from this thread, that many collectors are buying them.. even the HA-marked colored ones are accepted as genuine.. so when you have a forum populated with people who have spent 1000 on one of these,
when that same forum is sponsored by the dealers selling them...what hope in hell do you have of reading the facts? LOL... Only here on the HJ Research Forum is it allowed to follow, note and mention dealers...
Not my fault it always turns out to be the same dealers, or same MODs or same collectors that are giving out wrong info.....
Besides.. look what happened to that fake Deschler-marked badge I was sent to examine.. I examined it, made a long video for all to see, exposed it as a cast fake.. and then, a few years later, it surfaces on a no-name website and is sold!
I can`t speak about these badges and the WAF, but I can speak about others.. like the modern fake Fallschirmjäger cap badges, that the WAF Moderator Tooth Willi aka Willi Zahn, claims are genuine. I showed that they are cast fakes, and BAM, he booted me off the WAF
I only found out a year or so later that a new
book came out, where those exact fakes were shown as genuine... as who`s name was in that book? Willi Zahn! Ha ha ha ha, so you see, when it comes to making money and reputations.. we cannot let the inconvenient truth stand in the way.
All we can do with these, is carry on this thread, carry on listing the ones we find, in the hope that it helps 1 or 2 people. If it does not, well...
should we care?
Like the mother who tells the kid "
Don`t touch the hot plate you will burn your fingers" and still, the kid does.... I think in that situation, the monther should just laugh!