I don't think it's fair to put the fault on the buyer. Dwayne was producing near-perfect replication of original display boxes and there was a dealer selling them at a show as a originals. So if someone starts producing purposely lower quality stitching of original patch titles, now what?
There isn't a lot you can do against that. You just have to buy reluctantly. I am sure there are still distinctive, but minute differences. I am not justifying any of it. If Slopps can't get their shite together, then what's the point? We know it exists, so we just have to purchase with careful regard.
I still remember that one Halloween Pack 'O Fun got cancelled, and it still appalls me that stuff like this can happen but
that got cancelled.