Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Optics Counterfeit Leupold Arrived from Ebay

This scope was $200 and ships from Hong Kong.

But I had to see what would happen.

Today is 18 days later and it was in my mail box.

I called Leupold Customer service and they said it was counterfeit and they want to know where I got it.

Wow...I wonder if thats the same one they are offering a deal on today....


Mil dot and duplex both on the label kinda give it away...

Thinking not. The counterfeits are all over eBay right now, listing after listing of VXIII 3.5-10, all shown as being from Hong Kong or Singapore. The deal was on a VX3i from a reputable eBay retailer in AL.

What’s really sad is you could probably go to any gun show and pass that off to an unsuspecting fool as the real deal.
That’s terrible.

Could you list the seller's Ebay name please? I just got an authentic VX-1 1-4x20 Heavy Duplex.

Ships from Hong Kong? Well, there you go....

Well will it hold zero and track better than the real thing?

I am not saying much until Leupold gets done looking at the pics and link of the ebay page I sent them.

Ebay or paypal might pay later.

My wife is worried I will die, she will sell it and she will get hit for fraud. I told her I would put a big tag on it. "THIS SCOPE IS AS FAKE AS CNN NEWS"

She did not think that was funny.

if they made their scopes in house it would be so much more difficult to do that.....

What?

As well as an Athlon or Vortex..

They're made by asslon

they source their scopes and scope parts from all over Asia...and I would bet many of the parts used in the making of the fake are the same parts used in the real ones....doesn't take much for somebody to put them together when they have access to half the needed original parts....most likely has lower grade optics and middle of the road build quality....but most of the price youre paying for the original is high profits..bet it works as good as any mid priced scope on the market........

If the pictures look weird, the box doesn't look like factory, and it is from overseas, it is fake, guaranteed. If you bought it as advertised, highly unlikely there will be a refund.
There are even Rage broadhead knockoffs, but some actually buy and use those, and claim good performance from them. But, Rage are made there in the first place, so could be off the same line.

How many of their scopes are assembled in Asia?

About 18 months back at the Costa Mesa CA gunshow a dealer had a stack of those special VX-III 3.5-10 at $350 each, I asked were did he get old stock and he claimed they were all new from a special run from Leupold.... and no I didnt buy anything from his table.

ANY Leupold that ships from Hong Kong or China is counterfeit. Currently there is a ton of them. And ebay has to know those counterfeit scopes are on there. I even saw a "Preferred Vendor" counterfeit seller.....

It is 9:30 at night and Leupold is still asking me questions about the shipper paper work.

I'd love to take that "counterfeit" apart and compare it to the official version.
Maybe it was sold out the backdoor by one of Leupold's "partners".

Damn. I've heard of this kind of stuff, and see it before with Trijicon on eBay. Be curious as to what Leupold will do with this.

Remember that BMW was raising hell about Chinese knockoff's of their X5 a few years ago? That issue went away when BMW opened their first plant in China. I wonder if the Chinese are wanting Leupold to open a plant in China?? My .02.....