"It seems that this licensed product, seen below, is fitted with stick-on inlays!"
"Note also that the hub, scallop and cog inlays are actually round inlays where the artwork gives the appearance of shaped inlays."

They've been advertised like that since day one.
First reported 'reject' chip Im aware of out of what must be hundreds of thousands sold.

The chips are 30c each, what do you expect?
I have a higher reject rate on Paul-Sons than on these (about 5 per 100,000)