I've been buying this same stuff for 2 years. I've bought 3 1500yd spools for $39.99 from this same place. Fake or real, I don't know. What I can tell you is my rods set in my rocket launchers all summer and they take a dunk about 35 trips a year and some of them still are spooled with line from the original spool I bought 2 years ago. I usually spool on 450 feet of braid over backer and only replace it when it's down under 400. This year when I prepped rods, I cut about 5 feet of last years braid (or in some cases 2 years ago braid) off and tied on my snap. I've had no issues with this particular line.

Greg