SPOTLIGHT ON: An unusual Fake TAG Heuer on eBay

Pointless at it seems to be, I still regularly report fakes to eBay, it doesn't seem to make any difference as I see the same watches there time and time again - but you've got to try. What amazes me sometimes is the variety of fakes, from the 'that doesn't look quite right' to the 'that's not going to fool anyone', and then there's this kind of fake - which is fake, but at first glance looks interesting and quite inventive.

I can actually see how the unwary might believe this was something more than it is, but I hope if anyone buys it they don't waste too much of their money. Clearly powered by a Miyota quartz movement, it probably works (well... who knows how much of it actually works) but it's quite funny that they put Mikrogirder on the dial but Mikrograph on the sides, fakers can't even decide what they are making!

The crown might fool some people as well, since it looks a lot like the crown on some of the current Carreras... and they've gone all out with the 'brickyard' dial design - to tie in with the Indy 500 theme. In some ways, while all fakes are bad and made with the intention of fooling people into parting with their money, I much prefer these outlandish designs to the bad 2000 copies. At least they give me a laugh... and hopefully anyone looking into buying will quickly realise that no such watch exists.

But then given people's ability to self-delude, the chances are they might think it's some kind of rarity... which is unfortunate. It does annoy me when you see garbage on eBay selling for the kind of money where you could actually buy a decent pre-owned TAG, but until eBay get their act together and react when people report the items being sold on their platform then I'm afraid this will continue.