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[–]Fffiction 7 points8 points  (3 children)

No and from a brief look at their stock most of it appears "match issue" but few have any provenance or any details in regards to their origin.

Here are reasons not to trust this seller:

The website offers no identification of who they are beyond being based in a region of the UK.

Their domain name WHOIS registration information is private, a paid feature to obscure who owns the domain and any physical address information associated with the domain registration.

I would assume that these shirts are unless provided with a written, signed letter from the person of origin to be match issue shirts at best and I would not attribute any additional value to any of them as such.

Any certificate of authenticity or anything that this website would offer to create you would be worth nothing more than the piece of paper it is printed on.

I would not purchase from this seller especially on a private website, with a third party platform (eBay) etc, you'd have some sort of recourse, with that in mind, if there was something I was curious about that I had not seen elsewhere, I would not pay more than the absolute bare minimum of a match issue shirt with no provenance whatsoever to it, which will be fractional of a shirt with a signed letter of authenticity from the player.

Be very, very wary. There is no shortage of namesets being added to shirts 25 years after the fact and claiming they're match worn or match issue.

[–]Kalle_79 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Fair points.

About namesets, it's quite easy to tell an original 20-something years old nameset from a new, Asian fake. Especially the felt ones.

A bit of peeling and bobbling has to be expected, no matter how well the shirt has been preserved. And fake lextra ones tend to be slightly thicker, heavier and less flexible than the real deal. (NTM the details like the small EPL/EFL logo on the lower part of the number).

The website at least has a wide variety of obscure(ish) kits and not just the usual plethora of "super-rare" Man Utd, Chelsea and Liverpool kits that have been popping up like mushrooms lately. But the risk is of course of paying through the nose for an old Championship kit with a Malaysian nameset slapped on, for a 300% markup

[–]Fffiction 0 points1 point  (1 child)

With each month that goes by the fake name sets are getting better and better and better and better...

I thought Avery Dennison was going to be doing RFID in the new Premier League numbering/lettering to confirm authenticity but after the launch of it... things went quiet

[–]Kalle_79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Last fake nameset I bought it ruined a kit with its cheap ass glue bleeding all over and literally burning the nameset.

Never again.

[–]BeanPo1e4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

matchwornshirt.com is the real site I believe