Fake Tenergy Revealed

[Vega]

Seems like Butterfly takes care of this problem and they added a new feature to distinguish real rubbers from fake ones.. In addition to the barcode on the back cover (I think this was copied too if i remember but dont have any pictures to compare right now..) they added a 7 digit lasercode on the front cover. I dont know if its for all Butterfly rubbers and worldwide but Butterfly Europe anounced to do this recently to fight the fake problems..

 

[Rosoner]

Oh hi!
Can you please put the link of these fake rubbers, so we can see the price and so on.
Thanks.

 

[daxx101]

and i was planning to buy a couple of tenergy rubbers.. guess have to wait a little more longer.

 

[TTANKEY]

Haha' true, but is a kind of ridiculous!! the SPONGE has different collors ¬¬'

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Oh hi!
Can you please put the link of these fake rubbers, so we can see the price and so on.
Thanks.

If people knew where to go to find the counterfeits, the counterfeiters would be out of business! These are people illegally making fakes and selling them as though they are real for a small amount less than the real thing, or, sometimes for the same amount as the real thing. You do not want them. Save your money and get regular Sriver or real Tenergy, or a real version of any rubber you like. But don't support illegal counterfeiting. Nobody should pay a high price for a bad imitation.

 

[Anders123]

If people knew where to go to find the counterfeits, the counterfeiters would be out of business! These are people illegally making fakes and selling them as though they are real for a small amount less than the real thing, or, sometimes for the same amount as the real thing. You do not want them. Save your money and get regular Sriver or real Tenergy, or a real version of any rubber you like. But don't support illegal counterfeiting. Nobody should pay a high price for a bad imitation.

I couldn't agree more Carl. Because if people keep buying these fake rubbers the companies who produce these fake rubbers will keep making them because there is a market for it!

 

[CamiloG]

But is simple... The spring sponge is like red/orange that's the big one difference

 

[mrxamad]

this is sick man, i hope no one among us get caught by this fake one

 

[EricTian]

can you tell the difference in the rubbers from the colour difference in the sponge or what?

 

[HLDang]

can you tell the difference in the rubbers from the colour difference in the sponge or what?

Like the posts before, real tenergy has a red/orange sponge.
If you look at the pictures that Dan posted, you can see a smooth surface and clearly see the pimples.

 

[TurboZ]

There are low grade fakes with yellow sponge but also high grade fakes with red sponge from taobao for a few USD. One area to look at is the extra rubber left to be cut under the printing, and the prints are usually thick and less well define. The top sheet is not as transparent and feels hard. It should be easy to tell if you can touch it, but less so by just looking at the package.

 

[MegaZZ]

There are low grade fakes with yellow sponge but also high grade fakes with red sponge from taobao for a few USD. One area to look at is the extra rubber left to be cut under the printing, and the prints are usually thick and less well define. The top sheet is not as transparent and feels hard. It should be easy to tell if you can touch it, but less so by just looking at the package.

Yes you are absolutely right. I am Australian chinese and visit China regularly and there is most definitely different grades of fake imitations. You can't solely tell by looking at sponge colour. I have noticed what someone above mentioned about the printing on the packaging being bold and less defined than authentic Butterfly products but once again I can confirm that is not absolutely true. I have come across many fake Tenergies whilst in China and the best way is to fell the rubber, especially if you have felt authentic Tenergies. Be really careful if you buy from Taobao or TMall and the price range seems super cheap, you can't go with the photos at all because the photos are often copied as well from genuine Butterfly Tenergies so it will not look like the package they send you! On the chinese version of Taobao website there is an option to limit your product search with like free 7 day return policy, if you click that then generally all the products are genuine and you will see the roughly correct market price range by Chinese standards.