American "Gril" Question

[DaisyDee]

Holy Cow! I've never heard of fakes. If someone sold them on eBay, I wonder where they bought them from in the first place!

[LindaL]

DaisyDee -

As Ria mentioned, I'm the proud owner of a fake Lissie! At least the seller of the one I own acknowledged her as a fake, and I got her for a bargain price on ebay. The seller I bought her from had purchased her on ebay, and she was the one who was "burned" on the purchase. I'm quite happy with her (although I do have an authentic Lissie also).

Usually, their eyes don't look quite right, and they almost always have no shoes on because their feet are too big to fit the geniune AG shoes!

Linda

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ October 18, 2005 09:56 PM: Message edited by: LindaL ]</font>

[AGTeacher]

Originally posted by DaisyDee:
Holy Cow! I've never heard of fakes. If someone sold them on eBay, I wonder where they bought them from in the first place!

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">They are made and sold in China. Please also know that there are counterfeit American Girl outfits out there as well.

AG knows this and are on top of it, so please do not worry about them.

I have not seen a Fake doll on ebay for a while now, which I am so pleased!!!!

[annkirstin]

We've had lots of threads on "American Gril" before. This is simply a mistake on AG's part. Many of us here checked our authentic dolls that we got straight from AG (from different years even), and many of them had "American Gril" tags. I have no idea why anyone would consider them more valuable. They are not rare or different at all. It was just someone's typo.

(edited to add that I think the doll of mine that had "Gril" on the tag was Addy.)

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ October 18, 2005 11:00 PM: Message edited by: Ann, Samantha fan ]</font>

[Ashlea]

This summer I saw a Lindsey on ebay whose eyes I thought looked really funny. Her hair also just didn't look the right lenght. She looked a lot like yours Ria! Now I think she was probably a fake. I almost bid on her, but she just didn't look right. [img]eek.gif[/img]

[DaisyDee]

Originally posted by AGTeacher:
Please also know that there are counterfeit American Girl outfits out there as well.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">We have a wholesale company here in Oregon that supplies a large portion of the non-AG clothes that are sold in eBay stores. They make several ouftits that are knock-offs of real AG ones.

http://www.wholesaledollclothes.com/