I'm not making generalizations : 2 years ago, I and 17 other members of Necstasy, French pc engine forums, ordered a batch of 18 new bootlegs to a german guy (named Mathias as far as I can remember). We made an inquiry about Care4data, the company that printed the bootlegs and we discovered that this company was swiss or german (I don't remember exactly) but what's for sure is that the bots were printed in germany or in switzerland.
Yes, we all know of the German connection. My copy came from Germany as well. What I'm getting at is:
By the way, aren't you from Germany, the country everyone knows sapphire bootlegs all come from and where they even were printed?
It sounds like you are assuming everyone German is involved in a Sapphire scam or something. Like, that selling Sapphire bootlegs is a specifically German past-time, and there is a bootleg Sapphire store in Hamburg or some shit. Regardless of whether the guy is German or not (I'm not sure why you think he is, but maybe you just know something I don't) the thing is probably a boot, but people all over the world are selling these things now. At this point, for all we know the ratio of real to fake Sapphires might be 1/1, and I'm sure a great deal of them have all been exported from Germany to places like the US, and Japan.
