After the 2010 winter olympics I really wanted a team U.S.A. jersey, but I couldn't and still can't find a non shady store that sold the jersey design I wanted. So naturally I went to ebay. I found some jerseys that were going for $300+ so I waited a week and went back to the same seller, and there was an exact one he was selling the week before with no bids for $100. So I messaged him where he got it and if he's absolutely positive it's authentic. He said he got it from a store in New York and that he's sure it's authentic. So I ended up winning it for $100 (good thing I didn't spend as much as the other buyers). The only thing that seemed weird to me was that the nike logo on the front was placed differently then it was on the game-worns. But I figured that's just how they made the replicas since all the others on ebay had the same placement of the nike logo (now I know they were probably all fakes).
So I got the jersey and to an amateur jersey collector like me it seemed 100% real and I was thrilled. I thought it must be, it has a fight strap (now I know I was completely wrong). But then I found icejerseys.com a few months later when I wanted to get a red wings jersey. I was looking through the forum and saw the thread on how to identify fakes... everything matched up with the pictures of the fakes. I wanted to believe it was real but I knew it was a fake. The ebayer's account that I bought it from is now disabled to there's nothing I can do about it.
So now I still want to display it on the wall (and get it framed) in my basement because I think it looks pretty awesome for a fake. I'm wondering if it would be an embarrassment to be displaying a fake, but I don't think the average sports fan would be able to tell. I attached some pictures of it and I'm wondering your opinions... sorry for writing a novel lol.
edit: with the tag the images were way to big, could a mod help?
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Sorry for the camera phone pictures.. thanks for your help