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Originally Posted by AyusakiFan

I've been scammed with bootlegs advertised as the real products three times:

The first item I purchased was from eBay when I first got into Ayu's music. It was Ayumi Hamasaki Arena Tour 2009 A ~Next Level DVD and when I first received it, I thought it was legitimate. I then discovered the website Ayumi Hamasaki SEASONS and since they have a portion of their website dedicated to how to tell if an item is a bootleg, I decided to see if the DVD was legitimate. It ended up being a fake so I emailed the seller and told them I was displeased that the item was a bootleg and it wasn't advertised as so. I was immediately refunded and I ended up reselling the item on eBay mentioning that it was not a legitimate product and someone still bought it since it was cheap.

The second fake item I got was Ayumi Hamasaki Arena Tour 2002 A. I bought it from a seller on Amazon and when I received it, I thought it was legitimate for a couple of seconds until I removed the slipcase. It was in a plain black case with no artwork and the DVD didn't look legitimate either. I put the DVD in my region 1 DVD player and it played just as I suspected. I then read the back of the slipcase and it said it MIYA Records. I immediately emailed the seller to let them know that it was fake and the seller told me they thought it was real and bought it from a pawnshop here in the US. She gave me a refund and I sold it here on AHS for $5 advertising that it was a bootleg and telling the buyer more than once that it was not a legitimate product so they knew it wasn't real.

The third fake item I got was Ayumi Hamasaki I am... CD. It looked legitimate on the outside but once I opened it, I immediately realized it was a fake as I already have a legitimate copy of the CD. The disc was a completely different color and some non-Avex company was advertised on the back of the case. I told the seller, they said that they must have sent me the wrong one, and then they refunded me. Now I'm trying to get rid of it, lol.

Why would you reselll those items when u got a refund? You should keep it yourself or throw it away to prevent bootlegs slipping into other ppl's hand...