What's the big deal about them? One person put a name on them, called them rare, sold them in limited quanities and inflated teh price. So now everyone who has to have the latest fad, jumped on the bandwagon and kept the price inflated.
As far as the fakes go, I know there was some discussion a while back that unless you could specifically trace them back to the original that Blane brought in and sold, then they weren't PPE's. That has been a big probelm with a lot of the rare/Le monickers that have been put on things.
Who's to say that the original one brough in and named and tagged with a LE or Rare is the only one of it's kind in the ocean? May be the first one found and brought in to the trade, but I doubt it was the only one in the ocean.
JMO.
As far as the fakes go, I know there was some discussion a while back that unless you could specifically trace them back to the original that Blane brought in and sold, then they weren't PPE's. That has been a big probelm with a lot of the rare/Le monickers that have been put on things.
Who's to say that the original one brough in and named and tagged with a LE or Rare is the only one of it's kind in the ocean? May be the first one found and brought in to the trade, but I doubt it was the only one in the ocean.
JMO.