Well, I gambled and won. My costume came through CostumeKingdom Inc., and it was the exact product described here. The buying experience did not benefit from this uncertainty over what I was going to receive. However, it looks like Yagoozon and Winning Costumes are the ones sending out the crap versions, so beware these and you should get what you expect.
This shirt is nearly perfect, being as close as you can get to the shirts used on the actual show without being an exact replica. I'm 5'11" and 190, so I picked up the large. It fit great, though the sleeves were a bit long. As others have noted, it rides up like the ones on the show, but wear a black shirt underneath and you'll be good to go. The pips aren't quite accurate, being a bit too small and too gold, but they still look good on the collar.
The combadge is junky; since it uses a glued-on pin it droops off the shirt and just looks stupid, but if you use a hobby knife you can shear the pin off and use velcro to attach it, which looks much better. Actually, the combadge was the only real defect: it was scuffed and losing paint, and when it arrived it was already pinned to the shirt, which caused minor damage to the fabric. Nothing huge, but still lame.
Overall its a great costume with some minor flaws. I'm not sure if it's Con worthy, but it received compliments at a Halloween party, and I felt geeky-awesome in it. Avoid the crap versions and fix the pin, and you'll be pleased.
Received a cheap imitation
I'm really disappointed, because the product that I received is nothing like the item pictured and described on the website. I think this seller (Winning Costumes LLC) is definitely pulling a bait-and-switch move on people that order. They're either using product photos and a description that are either outdated, or portray an entirely different product. The collar (aside from being a completely different style) lacks the colored trim/piping along its edges. Instead, it has a very crude hem. Instead of the angular divide between the red and black fabric above the waist, the shirt I received had a s-shaped squiggle that divides the two. There wasn't any communicator pin - just a tacky silkscreen print on directly on the fabric. There also weren't any pins for rank pips - just a cheap piece of fabric with an iron-on backing. Beware when buying this product, because it doesn't seem that what is being sold matches what is here on the website at all.
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