Leupold warning

[Blacktail Sniper]

Found this on craigslist - Seattle today. 

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/for/3213103349.html

Copied incase the craigslist expires or gets flagged:

Counterfeit Leupold Riflescope Warning

Leupold® is issuing a customer alert to purchasers of products, particularly via Internet sales, in regards to bogus Leupold products that are apparently being illegally imported from the People's Republic of China. These products bear many of the marks and trade dress of current Leupold & Stevens riflescopes making them very hard to distinguish externally from authentic Leupold products.

Counterfeited Leupold Mark 4® riflescopes and more recently, counterfeited Leupold Prismatic riflescopes have begun to arrive with increasing regularity at the firm's Beaverton, Oregon, headquarters for service. These products are not manufactured by Leupold and are not covered by the Leupold Full Lifetime Guarantee.

Leupold employs serial number tracking for all its riflescopes, so if a customer finds a scope that is suspect, he or she can simply write down the serial number and call 1-800-LEUPOLD to confirm if it is indeed authentic.

Counterfeited Leupold Mark 4® riflescopes:

In general, most of the scopes appear to originate from Hong Kong (People's Republic of China), and have "Leupold Mark 4" laser engraved on the bottom of the turret in a silver etch, while the black ring on the objective is etched in white and does not include the name "Leupold". The scopes also do not bear the Leupold medallion, a mark all Leupold scopes will always possess. An authentic Mark 4 riflescope will always be engraved black on black and have the name "Leupold" engraved on the black ring

[Biggerhammer]

The "Fakes" have been out there for years, the best way to tell a "Fake" from a authentic Leupold is to turn the scope over and look at the bottom of the turret housing, the "Fake" has a round housing like the one pictured above. Here's  a picture of the bottom of a authentic Leupold MK4 I picked up awhile back. Note how the bottom of the turret housing is not round like the "Fake" pictured above.

[deleted BGS]

I seen one from a guy in pierce county, he was unsure that it was a leupold and told me he was selling it as a scope not a leupold. I checked it out anyway becasue it was a mark 4  doesnt hurt to look , but make sure you know what your looking at

[toothfangclaw]

How bad is the quality of these scopes?