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Ipodium
08-19-2004, 01:35 PM
Please choose the appropriate forum for this topic. Thank you. I found these on Ebay and I can't any reference anywhere about the ZV400 pro Ipod Mini earphones. The guy is in China and I know China is notorious for producing bootleg products however these look cute.

Anyways, please tell us if they are the real thing or a cheap POS pair of earphones.

Thanks

Here's the link to the AUCTION (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=40138&item=5715042612&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW)
seth's appeal
08-19-2004, 02:05 PM
I've never seen or heard mention of them. If these are new, they'd certainly announce these like they announced the in-ears. I would just go for the EX71s. ;)
hotch
08-19-2004, 02:11 PM
definately not.
McTex
08-19-2004, 02:42 PM
The packaging, while fairly good, says they are not geniune.......
Wilder_K_Wight
08-20-2004, 02:34 AM
Hong Kong is famous for counterfeiting everything.

These are probably $2 phones that have been marked to say "apple" in the WRONG FONT.
thedodgyguy
08-20-2004, 06:33 AM
Fascinating. They look like modified Sennheiser MX (the earphone shell is certainly that of the Sennheiser/Sharp/iRiver phones).
Ventro
08-20-2004, 12:55 PM
fake.
jwc110869
08-20-2004, 01:07 PM
The font is wrong, but a nice looking counterfeit. Now I'm sure sound would be a different issue.
thedodgyguy
08-21-2004, 08:29 PM
If they've included the MX300 driver along with the body, then it'll actually be more accurate (although with less bass) than the iPod phones.
freecarrots
08-21-2004, 11:29 PM
definitely fake.. does apple use that green apple next to the mini?

but anyway the "music" logo in the top left hand corner screams fake... china's fake goods are characterised by out of point things like that :)

i've got a few faked nike shirts from china.. the labels and tags are so similar. but they've got out of point things written on the labels like.. "mountain adventure" or something
oksk89
08-22-2004, 04:40 AM
omg.. ppl READ the auction. he never says anywhere that they are APPLE earphones. it specifically says "Although it is designed specially for the Apple IPOD MP3 player, it is also can be used in almost all other kinds of players." its kinda obvious that these arent fake earphones or apple rip offs, but some random earphones from some random company that are for ipods...
kelvin38
08-22-2004, 07:47 PM
those are definately fakes but look pretty good for counterfeits. As mentioned above, they look like short cord versions of the Sennheiser series.
Bigballinalbo69
08-23-2004, 01:11 AM
how r they fake they say apple right on them and stuff
AndyH
08-23-2004, 01:29 PM
Originally posted by Bigballinalbo69
how r they fake they say apple right on them and stuff
That means nothing, tons of products are copied and then sold as the genuine article.

Read this for more info:
http://www.lpconline.com/avoiding_counterfeit_goods.html

Or do a Google search for counterfeit products for additional info.
SlowBye
08-23-2004, 02:14 PM
The person who made this counterfeit is really dumb. They left the Sennheiser package behind this. If you look the bottom right of the blue says sen.
Jackus
08-23-2004, 02:33 PM
Ha ha! Just seen that now!
Squibbles
08-24-2004, 01:38 AM
Originally posted by SlowBye
The person who made this counterfeit is really dumb. They left the Sennheiser package behind this. If you look the bottom right of the blue says sen.

I believe the blue packaging with Sennheiser is for a different pair of earphones. If you look at this (http://i11.ebayimg.com/02/i/01/fa/af/de_1.JPG) image, you can see that the said earphones are in a white packaging.