Quote Originally Posted by kramurx
You don't buy a rolex to know the time. You buy it as an investment, status symbol and because of the craftsmanship. A fake rolex has a lot worse quality and someone who is knowledgeable of watches will instansly recognize it as a fake. A dupe is a 1:1 copy. A perfect clone sharing the same history. It's a digital item. Both are given to you by valve. It's more as if your watch got stolen and rolex makes the exact same copy of it with the same ID. Without a 3rd party program like TF2items you would never know that an item is duped. Yes the level is the same but not all hats with the same level are dupes. Some people in the tf2 community just like to obssess over things. I guess they have ocd.

I can understand that collectors want to own "clean" items but again, get hijacked once and bye bye to the cleanless of your hats.
Exactly my point. You dont buy a clean burning tossle to just have flames, you buy it because of the genuinity and the high cost so it can be shown off