Be sure to have anti-counterfeiting elevator card B. Anti-counterfeiting Elevator B Card is currently the only card on the market that has a query function that can identify the authenticity of Spalding Basketball. The authenticity of this card mainly depends on the silver covering on the raised area on the front. The model and material of the basketball are printed on the top. There are orange lines, white freehand basketball lines and red SPALDING printed in the middle. The bottom is printed with the word SPALDING. It's a silver overlay. As for the character on the card, it's not necessarily Arenas. The silver covering layer can be easily scraped off with a key. The displayed numbers are neat and clear, with a total of 16 digits. There is a space after every 4 digits for easy viewing and input. If there is any phenomenon that is inconsistent with my description, there is a 90% chance that the card is fake. The verification code of the fake card cannot be successfully checked on the Spalding official website. Friends who are not willing to use their brains can beat the seller to death with "Fake cards must be fake games". I think this should be the official Spalding commitment to consumers. Sellers should go to Spalding officials if they want to complain. Friends, whether you go to a specialty store or online market to buy, you should ask the seller to give you an anti-counterfeiting E-card B. Make it clear that it is a B card. Do not let profiteers give you an A card that cannot be verified. There are many merchants who sell genuine products who will definitely complain, saying that they are A cards but the basketball is absolutely fine. If the buyer does not have the ability to recognize the appearance of the basketball, don't sympathize with them, otherwise you will be the one who suffers. Let Spalding officials come forward to resolve the merchant's matter, and there is no need for consumers to get involved. To put it bluntly - if you have a B card, buy it, if you don’t have a B card, don’t talk! Nowadays, the counterfeiting skills of profiteers have improved a lot. I heard that some stores are selling real and fake balls together, deliberately not giving buyers anti-counterfeiting cards, suppressing them without asking for them, and sealing up fake balls for sale, so that they are fake. In this case, buyers have to increase their anti-counterfeiting knowledge in other aspects, otherwise, although they have passed the verification, they will continue to play match-fixing. I have used Spalding basketballs for many years, and I have replaced them N times. In the end, they were all replaced with polished surface particles. There were no other problems such as "glue opening", "air leakage", "deformation", etc. To be fair, who would support Spalding basketball if it really couldn't help it? ! 2. Plastic sealing, color, feel, etc. In the past, counterfeiting was not clever, so the official website tells everyone not to buy balls that are not plastic-sealed, have bad color, are not sticky, have skewed barcodes and other fonts, etc. Nowadays, these have been overcome one by one by profiteers. If you use these points to distinguish authenticity, your IQ will be too low! My match-fixing is quite "excellent" in these aspects! 3. Some meaningless identification methods. Someone used a knife to dissect the real and fake balls layer by layer and posted them online to "benefit" everyone. I find it very meaningless! Because when we go to buy a ball, we cannot bring our own scalpel to cut open the new ball and look at it. Some people say that you can tell the authenticity by playing more. I think if you play too much, the ball will become dirty and damaged. Which merchant is willing to help you replace it? Even if it's fake, they have a reason not to change it. So it’s meaningless! 4. Identification methods based on hearsay. In the past, the clerk at the Spalding store said that authentic basketballs have three "small details" that are difficult to achieve with imitations. First, there are 4 raised words SPALDING on the top and bottom of the black groove. If not, it is a fake ball; second, it is a fake ball; The handwriting of these 8 raised words should be very clear and neat, otherwise it is a match-fixing. (Note: The raised letters on both ends of a ball are reversed. If there are 4 S letters on the outermost edge, then there are 4 G letters on the outermost edge on the other end.); Third, the "S" letters of SPALDING are somewhat beyond the surface of the ball. Anything within the scope of the division is fake. After researching, I found that some genuine models now do not have raised words (for example: 74-199). You can go to the official website to verify. The "S" letter may not be obvious on some real balls if it exceeds the boundaries of the ball cover, but it is definitely exceeded. I can’t say whether all the match-fixings have clear and neat raised characters, but my match-fixing is not neat and clear. 5. Technology that is difficult to imitate. This is what I concluded by carefully comparing real and fake balls. It is very meaningful! The large LOGO, other logos, text, and barcodes of genuine Spalding basketballs are all printed on the surface of the ball using special means. This printing technology can not only achieve uniform color but also ensure neat handwriting. It can also ensure that the hand will not slip and feel sticky when touching large logos and other words.

People who are not good at identifying large logos with dark colors can stare at the barcode. The authentic barcode should be printed with a thin layer of brown on the ball. The brown can have different shades, but the brown is uniform on a basketball. There should be no color difference. In addition to the neat handwriting of the barcode, if you look closely, you can clearly see the granular texture of the basketball skin underneath the brown color. The previous counterfeit balls followed the same pattern and naturally caused the writing on the ball to be skewed, making it easy for buyers to identify. But now the technology of match-fixing has also improved. They use a lamination method to press a layer of plastic-like stuff onto the ball. The LOGO and other words are printed on this layer of plastic, so if you look closely at the match-fixing, the fonts are very Neat! The profiteers avoided the difficulty of Spalding's traditional craftsmanship and found another way, which can be said to have used their brains. This is how my match-fixing works. However, what is fake cannot be true! The plastic film is very "hard" and will slip when you hold it. Let me describe it. The words on the real ball are painted with a thin layer of paint, and your hands can feel the friction of the ball skin through the paint. The words on the fake ball are made of plastic on the ball skin, and what you touch is plastic. Not the ball cover. The easiest thing to identify is the barcode, because the barcode is the most delicate, so buyers should look carefully! 6. Reference price for Spalding basketballs purchased online. The cheapest one made of PU is about 108 RMB or more, and the one made of rubber may be cheaper. Generally, those priced under 100 RMB are fakes. After all, not many people make rubber products, and PU sells best. Some sellers sell Spalding for tens of dollars, but they clearly state that they are high imitations, so they are not profiteers. The most hateful thing is the person who repeatedly emphasizes that he is the genuine product even though it is clearly a fake! ! I wrote so much just to help friends who are confused about identifying the authenticity of Spalding basketball. After all, it belongs to high-end basketball. If I didn't write it down, your losses may be several times as much as mine.