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1.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE OF FAKE COUNTERFEITS, August 29, 2013
By Jay - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magpul Gen 2 MBUS Rear Flip Sight, Black (Sports)
The product I received is an obvious fake and it was "Ships and Sold by Amazon". The only reason I initially became suspicious is because I bought the front sights at a Magpul dealer but they were out of stock on the rear so I purchased the rear on amazon and there is a huge difference in quality. This is not the air soft version but a version specifically made to trick people into buying counterfeits. After checking out the real version here are the reasons it's a counterfeit.

1) The aperture(the hole you look through to see the front sight) is plastic and flops around loosely. The genuine one is plastic but without mold marks and is very tight.
2) The gen 2 aperture should have 3 positions small, large, and wide open. The fake only has small and large but will not completely fold down for wide open.
3) The plastic molding quality is inferior and you can see molding marks everywhere.
4) The sight should have "MBUS" molded onto it the counterfeit does not.
5) The fake sight does not lay flat on the rail and is slightly raised towards the rear and is not as low profile.
6) The spring that flips the sight up is much weaker than the genuine.
7) The left and right aperture adjustment is very rough and doesn't turn smoothly. The fake one is also missing the hash marks to indicate how far left and right.
8) The screw that holds it onto the rail is a hex screw, the genuine attaches with a flat head screw.

I am not an expert in Magpul products but these are the issues that were immediately apparent. The airsoft version is at least marketed as an airsoft version and costs only $15 a set. This was obviously made to trick people into thinking it is genuine and selling for $50+ for just one sight.

Beware of all Amazon products because Amazon shares its inventory with other sellers that have shipped them items to sell via Prime or Free Shipping. If the barcode on the package matches something Amazon already sells, the inventory is combined with Amazon's inventory to save warehouse space. The sellers know this and will ship Amazon fake merchandise with the real barcode and it will get mixed in together. After this Amazon has no way of knowing where it came from so even "Ships an Sold by Amazon" gets tainted with counterfeit merchandise.

Hopefully some people will see this review buried in the hundreds of reviews. The actual Magpul rear sight is 5 stars but the fakes are 0 stars and amazon gets 0 stars for continuing to let it happen.

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Yeah I read through the reviews. I just wanted to know if anyone here has first hand experience.

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If supplied by Amazon and listed as manufactured by Magpul I would trust it. If it turns out to be fake Amazon will make it right.

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Get them from PSA the real thing not some Chinese crap

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Wow just to save $10? this is why I don't order parts from amazon or flea bay.

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Wow just to save $10? this is why I don't order parts from amazon or flea bay.