This looks a bit dodgy...

[jerryf]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=Pike%20%26%20Co.%20Home%20%26%20Leisure&index=diy&search-type=ss

[Blade runner]

Pike&co, the real real Swiss army knife
The "swisstool " is more expensive than the real one.

[thebullfrog]

Just a bit....

[Freudian Frog]

I... what? The pictures just look like edited Vics... I can kinda see the shield stamp on the Swisstool. What even is this?

[thebullfrog]

It makes me want to buy one just to see WTF I wind up with.

[Millhouse]

[AlephZero]

Not only SAKs... Here's some shears

PIKE & CO...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Leading-Servo-Single-Handed-PIKEFSK113680i10/dp/B0088BBWOQ

Fiskars...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiskars-Servo-Hand-Shear-111680/dp/B0002TTRPI

Looks veeery dodgy to me... also note the prices 

[jerryf]

If you click and open any of them the description is such a rip off...criminal..and at least double the price.

[macabee]

Pike&co, the real real Swiss army knife
The "swisstool " is more expensive than the real one.

And to think someone may buy one

[J-sews]

No reviews yet on the faux-Swisstool or Spirit. I imagine when there is one it will be rather scathing.

[Freudian Frog]

So who's going to pony up for a review?

[AlephZero]

What's really wrong here is... Usually fakes are cheaper than the original, these are 2 to 4 times MORE expensive... WTF?

(supposedly) clever scamming scheme?

[J Mackrel Jones]

An interesting development in SAK consumer deception.  Googling Pike & Co Home and Leisure turns up no such company.  They might exist only as a name to market these knives made by... ?
The knives shown do not have the characteristics of many recent fakes -- mis-shaped reamer, bogus mini-driver, wrong grind on scissors, white tweezer-head, copy of Victorinox shield...  The out-of-focus tang stamps look a lot like Vic 3 and 4 line stamps.  Are these made by Vic with blank scales, or with post-factory scales popped on, and sold "by Alex Whyte", with the same names as the Victorinox models at plus-Vic prices?     
The reference to "Pike & Co class stainless steel" suggests they are oriental copies hoping for the unknowing buyer. 
The photos might be of real SAKs with the Vic shield photo-shopped out and the buyer gets -- who knows what?

[Freudian Frog]

The photos might be of real SAKs with the Vic shield photo-shopped out and the buyer gets -- who knows what?

That's my thinking, I just want someone to give it a shot so we can sort this mystery out.

I suppose someone should report them.

[AlephZero]

And that's not all... They have thousands of items listed on Amazon UK, much more than just SAKs 

Just do a search "PIKE & CO", seriously... i got circa 35000 hits, now of course lots of it is your run of the mill cheap chinese crap, but apart from that, i already spotted fiskars and bahco stuff (and of course victorinox)

[AlephZero]

Here's another example:





Notice the product code on the pike version [PIKEBAHP140i10]
This is some seriously weird smurf...

[ICanFixThat]

Looks like a major scam being set up.  Check-it-out; each item has two sellers, the other seller charges double to make the price look good I suppose for the first seller.  This is major scam setup.

The seller seems to have a good rating, but this makes him look more like a first rate A.H.

Looks like Amazon UK is not paying enough attention to their selling partners.

[AlephZero]

OK, I guess the big question is... what can we do about this?