Post YOUR Yonex Serial Numbers, No eBay Enquiries, Read Post#1, price/source required

I was under the impression the recent NS9900 for UK market started again with the serial numbers. Checked this forum but there are no recent UK rackets to compare against.

Gullane Sports/Rapid Repairs are an authorised Yonex distributor so would be very surprised if something was amiss.

Interested in the answer obviously.

Cheers

Mark

 

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racket model: Yonex Muscle Power 66
shaft serial: 4704412
cone code : 060142UK
source : Second hand, private purchase
price : US$60
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Nope...

... I don't think that they have re set the serials for the UK Market, it's just a running number for all the countries, so I would email rapid repairs or phone them, the last nanospeed 9900 I verifyed was....
Shaft serial: 8947138
Cone code: 081292AS (8th December 2009) austrailian coded
Can you maybe pos pictures ? I am curious

 

your racket Is Legit

 

You'll have to trust me from that pic that the code ends UK.

Cheers

Mark

 

I belive the code is UK cause I can see part of the U, the rackets serials are not legit, the way the date is on the racket actually doesn't look even, on the racket, (not straight from what I can see, I would contact yonex uk, and rapid repairs, by email, and just explain what you have found

 

To be honest with you... that serial looks stamped not lazer engraved but it's hard to tell for sure with the picture quality.

I also find it hard to believe that the Yonex Japan plant would restart the serial numbers for just one region. They would more likely just add another number and go to 8 digits instead of 7 but that's just my guess.

 

Have there been any recent NS9900 serials that have been checked?

LD - is yours UK coded, if so of comparable age?

 

mine is
261282UK 816xxxx (can't remeber the rest off the top of my head) bought from e.g sports at the end of April,
(e.g sports-rapid repairs-gullane= same shop)
As I said there was that austrailian coded racket that was 081292AS-8947138 therefore made after yours

 

Kinda similar to:

The poster never followed up with pics though or Leehsim's recheck request ...
You'd almost think they have another factory to deal with capacity problems. Where does it say it's made?

 

Demolidor,

It's Japan on the green cap. I was a bit keen on applying the overgrip - can remove if this yields any additional info?

It actually fits that pattern - 1338 rackets in 83 days though. Couldn't be full time production.

 

Remove the standard grip if you're willing but probably not a good idea if you have any intentions of returning it/trade it in for a different one. There should be a barcode sticker underneath ...

 

I'll hang fire and see if Yonex UK can confirm for me. That said if the information on the handle can confirm the authenticity I'll be happy to expose it

 

It's this check: http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1358726&postcount=13
Probably hold of for now till you get a response from Yonex UK.

 

Thanks demolidor

As you'll notice, I tend to be a little impatient with these things

Does this mean I can breathe easy?



Cheers

Mark

 

Checking for authenticity does not require the same model or distribution code. I've read through the posts and it seems that other BCF members have bought genuine products from that store and I don't think (I'm not totally sure though) a couterfeit UK coded racket has been spotted yet here on BCF. But if you did not copy the serial and code correctly, then I'm pretty sure its counterfeit.

 

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[FONT=&quot]racket model: [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Yonex Armortec 600[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]shaft serial:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] 1234567[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]cone code :[/FONT][FONT=&quot] 021292US[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]source :[/FONT] gary_seeker, Badminton central
price : US$120 shipped paid through paypal
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Are you serious? the shaft ser # is incorrect. Even w/o the ser#, I am sure the racquet is 100% real from Gary_seeker.

 

8932167 021292US the yonex paint above the grip are faded in a consistant pattern. I was concerned.

 

Ryim, that doesn't really make sense. The codes posted are those on the racket. As mentioned there hasn't yet been a UK coded counterfeit and I'd be nothing short of amazed if the chosen distibution method for such a counterfeit was one of Yonex UK's authorised stockists with 30+ years standing.

I'm pretty comfotable the racket is genuine (unless anyone can offer any clear evidence to the contrary, other than the codes), but clearly the numbers are different to those currently referred to so some forther discussion is welcome.

Lastly, I'm not the only one with a racket coded thus. It would be more than coincidence in my opinion.

Cheers

mark