Is My Racket Real????

[K3vin]

Just got a new racket from ebay. Wondering if its real. It came from someone legit as recommended in one of my earlier threads.

I tried to take the best pictures that I could. I know the bottom of the racket looks real cuz it looks the same as my mp44's bottom.

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/5944/13vu.jpg
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/6307/23nu2.jpg
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/3797/32rr.jpg
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/9552/43lu.jpg
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/5527/57gb.jpg
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/3994/64na.jpg

Another question, why does the serial on the TH racket look different from the US one that I have? Or is mine just faded out a bit?

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/3641/7mp444kr.jpg

More than one opinon would be nice. Thanks for the help!

[oXTMACXo]

hey do u go to independence? cause then i see u live in san jose and i do too!

[theasiandude88]

the mp99 looks real. the part that made me think this way was the grip wrap. this one is nicely sealed and the original grip looks legit. the racquet seems a bit too yellow but that might just be the camera. however, on this picture, the gourmets look really weird http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/3797/32rr.jpg
(http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/3797/32rr.jpg)

[LongReach]

MMMMmmm......the serial number seems ok but it does not look laser etched:confused: but everything else looks ok.


Maybe the photo but the writting on the cone looks white? like it is sort of printed.

[calfunz]

looks just like mine....the muscle power 99 part on the near the bottom of shaft not yet to cone looks good...in a fake the yellow dots on the pink/red fade would be aligned and this is detailed, and distorted kind of not alligned so it looks good....+ is there a pbsi imprint on the cone? or mayb that is just a thing with my region....looks too good too be fake...

[K3vin]

-Nope I don't go to indy.

-Colorwise, I will be able to check with my friend's mp99 in a day or so. He has a US version one, so ill just compare colors with him. My camera sucks a bit, I had the settings on auto contrast or w/e and it sorta made the whole picture yellowish. My table is a much lighter brown than the one in the photos. I have NO idea about the gourments tho, ill have to check out my friends racket and see.

-It sorta does look printed when I look at it. However, when I rub my thumb over it, it feels etched in like my mp44. I was just thinking my mp44's color on the serial faded out a bit.

-Nope, there isn't a pbsi imprint on the cone. I think it might just be on SP and TW rackets. Not sure tho.

Thanks for all the comments you guys!

[luisme]

I dont think it is real when i see the serial number. It should be made on 1/8/05 and its impossible to not have lasered serial number. If anything that is made in other than the US should have TH marked after the name.

[rommel6774]

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/3797/32rr.jpg

if the grommets/eyelets are like these then this is the original TH (Thailand) distributed. this is a bit cheaper than Japan (JP)/ US distributed. i've got one bought in Malaysia.

[K3vin]

Ya, i checked it out with my friends racket. Everything looks the same. I got it from sumai03 btw.