I think I have a Sophie Giraffe fake!!
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I just don't know which one is the fake!! I bought DS a Sophie about 3 mos ago from our lactation store. It came w/ a certificates of authenticity, Sophie story..blah blah blah. No problem.
Then yesterday as I was walking ds I saw a Sophie Giraffe on the ground. I picked it up and continued my walk to see if I run into the other walking mom. Anyway, I'm noticing that this found Sophie looks a tad bit bigger than the one I have and her eyes are painted bigger. Sure enough when I get home I look at our Sophie and the found one is bigger....barely but noticeable none the less. Not bigger in height but overall...like she's had steriods, lol. There are few more dots on her, too. I notice that the Sophie I bought has a dot of paint, the color of her spots, on the bottom of her front paw. The found one doesn't have it. Even my dh noticed that the found one was different just at first sight. So now we're wondering which one is the fake??
Supposedly there's only one factory in France making these things so I'd assume they'd be using the same exact format and there shouldn't be a size difference, right?
Which one does your's sound more like, mine or the found one? Do you have a dot on the foot bottom?
Re: I think I have a Sophie Giraffe fake!!
This. I'm sure I read this on the packaging.
hmmm....I'll look into the two size thing.
As for the dot, it's on the bottom of the front foot. Bottom, meaning if you turn her upside down and the soles of her feet are showing, there's a dot.
I just thought Sophie isn't supposed to have changed in the 30+ yrs. I'm only concerned b/c I bought it b/c it was all natural rubber and paint. I would never give ds some rubbery squeak toy made from who-knows-what in China!
I'm going to look for a # and give the customer service a call and see what they say about the dot on one and not the other and about the obvious differences in the two. I'll keep you all posted.
DD's has a dot and certificates.
It's not just the paint that's different it's the overall size of Sophie. The found one is bigger. The head is bigger, the legs are bigger, the body is bigger...not a lot bigger just noticeably bigger. The found Sophie looks lke she's eaten more leaves than the Sophie I bought. LOL
Ours doesn't have the dot and we purchased it off Amazon.co.uk. It came with all the certificates and such as well.
Has anyone considered that perhaps the dot is on the ones sold to retail stores like BRU and Barnes & Noble, etc.? Maybe this is how they track sales via the internet vs stores?
Does it really matter?
At $20, they are making a pretty sweet profit, so of course there are going to be knock offs. I can't imagine someone voluntarily dropping $20 on a glorified dog chew toy. Ours was given to us, some other schmuck paid for it. I wouldn't have.
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This, but I don't have one and won't ever.
There are two sizes. https://www.organiccottonshop.ie/childrens-accessories-page48836-0-45082.html
They sell the standard and the "grande" size. Hope this helps! I just received mine in the mail and my ds seems to like it.
I thought writing 'This.' in reply to someone was only a teenage boy on the internet type-a-thing.
Seems this bad habit is spreading, this thread has it multiple times which makes it all the more nauseating.