Potential counterfeits mixed with authentics
Patch Collection offers retail patches, but they also produce patches in house for their own brands. I heavily suspect that when retail patches are out of stock, they will sometimes be replaced with counterfeit in house patches, and will be placed in authentic packaging. Packaging is often tampered with with it being reopened and re-sealed, tags are cut off that showed product SKU, and patch quality and size are noticeably different than authentic patches when compared side to side. TLDR: I suspect that Patch Collection opens authentic patches and uses their packaging to put fake patches in to sell to the consumer. I've seen this with NHL and MLB patches. I have stopped buying from CP and only purchases patches directly through National Emblem or The Emblem Source.
By Andy F.