prototype amiibo real or fake

this person on bay is claiming that he has a prototype link amiibo i cant tell if its the prototype or not do you think its real or fake?

heres the link
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-am...0?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_210&hash=item3cf810b546

 

It probably is fake but you never know. The seller doesn't even offer returns. I wouldn't trust them. I think it is too early for prototype amiibos to come out of Nintendo HQ. $5,000 dollars is what people seem to be charging for retail amiibos anyway.

 

More than likely an unpainted one bought through Taobao. You can find a lot of Skylanders like these, and they're not prototypes so much as test runs from the assembly line that are usually either deformed or purposefully damaged to be discarded.

Prototype Skylanders though have appeared on Taobao in the past, albeit extremely rarely: a crystal clear Prism Break and two crystal Stump Smash figures. I own one of the latter, though none had any RFID chips in them to enable gameplay.

 

Terrible pictures (it looks like the carpet is in focus, not the Amiibo), and it's from some random place in Quebec, I'm gonna say it's fake.

Logically, there's 3 places one could imagine prototype Nintendo hardware coming from. Seattle (NoA headquarters), Kyoto (NoJ headquarters), or maybe Frankfurt (where NoE is headquartered). I wouldn't imagine it would come from China, where I think they're produced, since they wouldn't get a prototype like the branches would.

 

Read the product description, still pissing myself laughing!!! I very much doubt this is a genuine prototype...

 

At least he/she is throwing in a bonus figure...

This is definitely a fake. The description proves it. Shipping cannot be calculated and there are no returns. The seller either knows it is a fake, or genuinely believes it is a prototype and/or has no idea what they are talking about. Hopefully nobody falls for this scam.

I'm gonna post this in the eBay hall of shame.

 

I wouldn't trust it with 3D printers as cheap as they are.

 

Even if it was real, nobody would care enough to pay that much for it.

 

Picture quality says it all.

We do have an eBay discussion thread also.

 

Ambiguous question. Yes it's a fake or no it's not real

 

Crappy pictures and overinflated price... no thanks..

 

I was going to suggest this. The $5,000 price tag along with the misspellings alone warrant it. Maybe the hypothetical $5,000 he would receive would go to learning a proper way to boff people out of their money.

"one of king authentic"

Also the poll is worded extremely poorly. Your answers don't make any sense with regards to the question.

 

Yeah, the poll confused me too. I put "yes" for "yes it's fake", but I think "yes" is for "yes this is real" an "no" is for "no it's a fake". If it is the latter, can someone change my answer to "no it is fake"?

 

Not to be rude, but it's probably not worth the effort. The main point of this thread has a better home elsewhere, and the poll is pretty superfluous.

 

I absolutely guarantee you someone would drop 5 grand on a real prototype Amiibo. Hell a Marth one would probably get a few hundred now.

 

now a prototype villager amiibo would be 7 thousand dollars maybe

 

94% of feedback on such a small amount of transaction and no return, should be enough to judge if it's fake or not.

 

Legit or not, 5 grand for a little lump of plastic is crazy.

 

In my experience, people who sell "legit" prototypes on ebay fall into the following categories:
1. They are a prototype collector (they only sell years later)
2. They actively sell prototypes.
3. They actively sell bootleg prototypes

OK the difference between 2 and 3 can be ambiguous, as prototypes of any sort (hard copies, test shots, protos, cross-sells, etc) aren't usually allowed to be sold. Sellers who do sell prototypes typically back-door the products from the factory. Either products that have failed QC or are stolen... Sometimes an actual prototype makes it out and is offered for sale. Usually they are supposed to be destroyed, but sometimes someone in the company ends up keeping it... like a sales rep, a designer, an executive, etc and then would sell it later for whatever reason.

Bootleg prototypes are a case where someone uses the factory molds to create casts in an unofficial context, as in not in the production line, then sell the items. Examples of this are all clear or colored plastics that are not part of the toys normal design.

I wouldn't trust this auction for the following reasons: low feedback, negative feedbacks with no response, only selling 1 "prototype." It could also be that the item in the auction just had its paint removed. Prototypes of this type generally would appear BEFORE the actual toy came out.

Real or not, I wouldn't touch it.

 

I just realized this is totally fake.

Here's a picture of the prototype Link (scroll down a bit) http://kotaku.com/nintendos-amiibo-figures-look-a-little-bit-different-in-1651030422

The post that Link is on is the thick post, and his foot is touching (neither of which are in that prototype picture). My guess would be either this is a painting error or someone messed it up to look like a prototype.