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There is an interesting documentary produced by the BBC called "The ⊗⊗⊗⊗ Trade" which shows the world of counterfeiting in great detail.
The interesting part, for me anyway, is that some of the brand owners of lower-cost premium-priced items are now actually manufacturing counterfeits of their own products for profit.
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Oh what irony! I'm watching "counterfeit culture" right now on amazon prime. Lol. Just as this thread just got started!
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Originally Posted by jeffweico
The interesting part, for me anyway, is that some of the brand owners of lower-cost premium-priced items are now actually manufacturing counterfeits of their own products for profit. | That is interesting - mixture of deceit and intellect hah
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The interesting part, for me anyway, is that some of the brand owners of lower-cost premium-priced items are now actually manufacturing counterfeits of their own products for profit. | The worst part of this is the fact the drug companies are allowing phake drugs to be marketed to sell in Third World countries. | The Following User Says Thank You to GreenBean For This Useful Post: | |
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Originally Posted by GreenBean The worst part of this is the fact the drug companies are allowing phake drugs to be marketed to sell in Third World countries. | Nothing suprises me anymore... |
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Thanks for the link 123 .. was going to ask where it was lol
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Originally Posted by jeffweico The interesting part, for me anyway, is that some of the brand owners of lower-cost premium-priced items are now actually manufacturing counterfeits of their own products for profit. | This is not new to me and it is around since the early '80.
I remember on the newspaper, back then, there was an interesting article talking about the Lacoste brand which was manufacturing expensive polo shirts and it was also putting on the market very cheap end evidently counterfeited polo shirts to cover the whole market. The shirts for the reach people n the shops and the shirts for poor people in the street markets (I had a couple of these).
That sounded kind of genious to me.
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Originally Posted by ilcarletto This is not new to me and it is around since the early '80.
I remember on the newspaper, back then, there was an interesting article talking about the Lacoste brand which was manufacturing expensive polo shirts and it was also putting on the market very cheap end evidently counterfeited polo shirts to cover the whole market. The shirts for the reach people n the shops and the shirts for poor people in the street markets (I had a couple of these).
That sounded kind of genious to me. | We used to buy them in bulk in Thailand & Vietnam. We had a nice market in Turkey for them
So badly made, collars would come undone on the first wash.
Later the manufacturing moved to Mexico. No improvement either.
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Originally Posted by GreenBean We used to buy them in bulk in Thailand & Vietnam. We had a nice market in turkey for them
So badly made, collars would come undone on the first wash.
Later the manufacturing moved to Mexico. No improvement either. | LOL
GB... you are selling stuff since the Stone Age
(no offence for how old you would be )
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Originally Posted by ilcarletto LOL
GB... you are selling stuff since the Stone Age
(no offence for how old you would be ) | You forget I have several older brothers who dragged me into their world
and what fun that has been. |
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Originally Posted by GreenBean You forget I have several older brothers who dragged me into their world
and what fun that has been. | The youger you are, the more you learn |
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Originally Posted by ilcarletto The youger you are, the more you learn | So true.
I used do their messages for them aged about 5.
Used to take 10 cents off each brother from their change.
They never noticed until our Da told them. ( he used do the same to his older brothers). |
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About those Lascoste shirts... Many moons ago, they were all the rage among young people (1980-1984) and I bought one. It was $40, which was a lot for a shirt back then. But the QUALITY was AMAZING! I owned that shirt for almost a decade!
The new ones? Not so much. And the one I tried a couple of years ago was bought at a major retail store, not on eBay, so I'm pretty sure it was the real deal. It LOOKED the same, but it didn't FEEL the same and it only lasted for two years.
Maybe I should have tried changing the shirt... |
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Originally Posted by MM78 | Yeah this one is really good I've seen most already.
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The new ones? Not so much. And the one I tried a couple of years ago was bought at a major retail store, not on eBay, so I'm pretty sure it was the real deal. It LOOKED the same, but it didn't FEEL the same and it only lasted for two years.
Maybe I should have tried changing the shirt... | Company actually took its manufacturing plant off shore.
After that, its quality went badly down hill.
I even know of several merchants in the UK who truly thought they were selling 'real' Lacoste'. Wrong! They got nicely scammed. |
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Originally Posted by GreenBean Company actually took its manufacturing plant off shore. | Bur.berry has done the same sh!t...all Chinese except the high-high end stuff. Dol.ce & Gab.bana and Pra.da making tons of garbage in Vietnam as well...same place as good ol' Nike!
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Nike set the standards for sh*t indeed hah
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