Check Out This Convincing JOOLA Clone, Sold by Walmart

"That's less than half the price of what it should be going for. What a deal, right?"

UPA-A President Jason Aspes posted a video to YouTube that should have you doing a double-take.

"I found this online the other day," he says in the video. "This is Walmart.com, and you can see a Pro IV Perseus JOOLA for only $129 – that's less than half the price of what it should be going for. What a deal, right?"

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The seller, he points out, is not JOOLA. So he ordered it. Ten days later the paddle showed up.

Not surprisingly, the paddle isn't a real JOOLA either.

But at first look it's nearly identical to the real thing.

Aspes has ordered an authentic Pro IV before. The clone he's holding doesn't miss many details:

All the JOOLA branding and colors are there It has the NFC chip on the handle The shape and dimensions are spot-on There are a few small differences.

The genuine paddle comes with a branded grip while the clone does not; and a real Pro IV paddle has a window on the edge guard near the handle that exposes the core inside. The fake, well, fakes it.

"This looks nearly identical," he says of the fonts, which don't quite match up.

"The sizing is a little off. But to the untrained eye there's no chance you'd be able to underst... FULL ARTICLE FOUND ON: https://www.thedinkpickleball.com/check-out-this-convincing-joola-clone-sold-by-walmart/