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The government has been cracking down on counterfeiting operations especially for the olympics.When we made the 45 minute trip there from hong kong, one of the touts took us to a shop operating out of a dodgy hotel.Another showed us his secret chamber in a mall where he displayed his best stuff all of it safely tucked away from inspectors.
The counterfeit trade employs a lot of people in china.Lawyers hired by multinational companies have complained to me that the economies of entire towns rely on the manufacturing of illegal products so officials are reluctant to step up their efforts to shut these unlawful factories down.
Some buyers i have spoken to have justified their purchases of fakes, saying the international brands are just greedy and shouldn be charging so much in the first place.
At the end of the day, everyone agrees it the buyer who is driving demand.So should the buyer be punished?How embarrassed would you be if your fake lv was ripped to pieces in public?Would it stop you from buying a copied product again?
I don know what all the excitement is about.I [URL=http://www.thebopps.co.uk]cheap louis vuitton bags[/URL] personally own several antique louis vuitton specially made trunks which are probably worth less then a purse at 2500 euros.Although crafted the present purses on sale are highly over priced, just as a ralph lauren shirt or polo shirt which are manufactured in singapore, by manufacturers who i know of.So the cost of = manufacturing a lv purse in france is maybe 200 euros and the mark up is 100 %.Why can someone make a similar purse and charge less.
One does not have to travel to china to buy counterfeit goods.Anyone travelling to greece and especially to rhodes, crete and neighbouring islands can confirm that all shops there sell counterfeit designer goods such as belts, handbags, caps, tee shirts, watches etc.I travel regularly to greece and have found it safest to buy things such as sun cream, toothpaste and necesssary medicines her in norway before i leave.I recently bought colgate toothpaste in crete which was supposedly made in malawi which hardened after opening
It tragic that people are so shallow that they buy fakes in the first place.At the very least, it an admission that they are inadequate and are trying to emulate their over paid brethren.Yes, it an outrage that some people are so profligate that they spend a couple of grand on a handbag or maybe a grand for a belt.For heaven sake, what happened to our society?Nonetheless, it still 100% ethical that the manufacturers have a right to their own intellectual and brand name property. (Having said that, i not shed any tears if luis vuitton went to the wall they are the ugly face of an iniquitous society).
Who cares if a whole city economy depends on illegal activity?That irrelevant. (Would we be concerned if a city were reliant on child prostitution and faced economic ruin if such activities were stamped out? )
Let bring china to book.They are flooding the world with rubbish, they sanction illegal activities, they are the world leading human rights infringer and are the major contributor to global warming due to over usage of natural resources.We don need china for anything.We should be making our own products.We don need to steal, by proxy, in encouraging intellectual theft and inculcating ourselves with this insane mentality.
I personally wouldn buy a fake handbag and i think it would be hilarious to see someones fake handbag ripped to shreds by french customs.
Regardless of designers are charging if you cannot afford the product it doesn give you the right to break the law by purchasing a fake.It means you have to find something in your budget thats what the consumer needs to understand.
I will say this in the defense of a designer handbag, i happy to shell out the 200 plus pounds for one because they last a long time and the value is in their construction and materials.I have one that i been using for 5 years and probably has another 2 to 5 in it if i take care it.You aren going to get that quality with a fake.
Business conscious and intelligent people knows that it illegal to produce as well as buy fake products.But sometimes, [URL=http://www.thebopps.co.uk]www.thebopps.co.uk[/URL] vanity pushes people to buy fakes because they want to be with the latest fashion, but can afford the price of the genuine ones.So its up to the government of that certain country to impose and implement laws to control, if not prohibit the manufacture, sale, or illegal use of brandnames of(Signatures)Branded products.Yes, the buyers should also be punished for tolerating such illegal acts and driving the manufacturers to produce more fakes by buying.I like the idea of confiscating fake lv in fairness to those who are using genuine ones.I rather enjoy using my locally made handbag woven intricately from abaca fibers than be embarassed in public by sporting fake ones.
So, did you see any fake olympics merchandise?I bet not.They appear to have been nearly 100% successful.Everyone from the manufacturers and their employees, to the government officials(Who benefit indirectly in many cases directly)To the consumers in china and elsewhere make or money from this business.
Yes, it should be illegal in china, as it is in other countries with strictly ip laws.If china wants to join the rest of the developed world, then institutionalized(Or at least tacitly acknowledges)Theft needs to be stopped.There is growing awareness of the importance of it, and the chinese defend their own ip vigorously.When there enough chinese ip competing in the world market, maybe reform will truly come to china.
China, among other asian nations, thrives on this kind of piracy while their governments limit legal foreign imports.I recall visiting hong kong some years back to see stocks of microsoft latest operating system, not even official yet released on the market, piled high and for sale at cutrate prices.Currently i live in south korea, where you can walk down the street and find hollywood dvds four for ten bucks this in a country that touts its own cottage movie industry and limits how many hollywood movies can play here.My university uses one copy of microsoft to boot up all their department computers.Who gets hurt?The consumers who buy substandard products, from fake medicine to knock off car parts, get hurt.Workers in the west get hurt by steadily losing their jobs to a globalized piracy that works hand in glove with import restricting countries that sanction such piracy to make up for their shortage of honest industry.The quality and accessibility of good products suffers as legit companies either go out of business or else spend exorbant amounts of money trying to control their market while addding copy protection that thieves always end up overcoming.This is a problem requiring global policing with teeth in it for any countries that continue to harbor this kind of illlicit activity.
I guess i will not feel embarassed if my fake lv bag was ripped to pieces.I be angry and yes i buy again.For a bag is a bag to me regardless of the name or brand.If it were a good fake and served me for a year or more, i cherish and treasure it like a favorite shirt.Yes, there are good fakes and bad fakes.If i could afford the original bags, perhaps i would buy one.But i can use and abuse an original one the way i would with a fake one.
I know a neighbor who dedicated an 30sqm just to store 48 original bags [different brands in their original shopping bags with the receipt in them].She use them for a week and that it.She buys them to show them off, than for their functionality.
While i agree with such comments, i think it over simplifies a complex problem.The mentality that justifies saving money to buy fakes comes from a very young age.When chinese are older, they may buy fake lvs, but this comes from what they have seen throughout their lives.
It would be like asking americans to reduce usage of cars and ride bicycles and public transit more often, or recycle their garbage.Such habits won change overnight once they 18 and have a driver license, or if they have been throwing away trash in a single bag throughout their childhood
I think in both cases, something drastic will be required to change minds in both countries.In the case of fakes, i hope outside countries devise of ways of solving the problem rather than simply do finger pointing. [URL=http://www.thebopps.co.uk]cheap louis vuitton[/URL]
The third to last paragraph of the article is often heard but very funny.The very reason why they bought fakes is because the original costs a lot of money;If the originals were cheap, then the fakes no longer acts as a status symbol.
The buyer and seller should definitely be punished.Remember we are talking about luxury brands, not life saving medicines.Once you buy a fake you affect the livelihood of workers of legitimate factories that supply these luxury brands.Saying international brands are just greedy and shouldn tmt be charging so much in the first place is not a justification.International luxury brands are what they are because of the price they charge.That is what makes them special or if they are greedy, then buyers of fakes are vain and cheap.
Branded goods have cultivated a culture of insecurity.If i don wear an original, i not good enough.Somehow wearing the real(Spelt hyper expensive)Jeans or dress or [URL=http://www.thebopps.co.uk]www.thebopps.co.uk[/URL] accessories will make me a superstar.Brands are for wannabes and insecure people.
About fakes, i believe that customers of the original wont buy fakes and 90% of copy buyers are people who cannot afford it in the first place.The fake goods are not like fake medicine.They don hurt or kill anyone.Fakes are a trip of fantasy for cheap.So why not?
It would be interesting to interview people at charles de gaulle, arriving from china and africa.When i lived in los angeles, i was stunned by the amount of women happily toting a complete fake while trying to channel paris hilton.In paris, they not something [URL=http://www.thebopps.co.uk]louis vuitton uk[/URL] you see often.You do see women of african origins on the train with fake louis vuitton woolen blankets, earrings, purses and i believe even shoes.Maybe i would ask them if they know what the fine in france is for possession of counterfeit goods.The maximum is over $400k usd.Then maybe i would ask if they knew they could go to prison for possession of counterfeit goods.It would be interesting to learn why people think its okay.It would be interesting to hear how they substantiate the idea that these companies price their goods too high.Want a paris based scout? ;)
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The government has been cracking down on counterfeiting operations especially for the olympics.When we made the 45 minute trip there from hong kong, one of the touts took us to a shop operating out of a dodgy hotel.Another showed us his secret chamber in a mall where he displayed his best stuff all of it safely tucked away from inspectors.
The counterfeit trade employs a lot of people in china.Lawyers hired by multinational companies have complained to me that the economies of entire towns rely on the manufacturing of illegal products so officials are reluctant to step up their efforts to shut these unlawful factories down.
Some buyers i have spoken to have justified their purchases of fakes, saying the international brands are just greedy and shouldn be charging so much in the first place.
At the end of the day, everyone agrees it the buyer who is driving demand.So should the buyer be punished?How embarrassed would you be if your fake lv was ripped to pieces in public?Would it stop you from buying a copied product again?
I don know what all the excitement is about.I [URL=http://www.thebopps.co.uk]cheap louis vuitton bags[/URL] personally own several antique louis vuitton specially made trunks which are probably worth less then a purse at 2500 euros.Although crafted the present purses on sale are highly over priced, just as a ralph lauren shirt or polo shirt which are manufactured in singapore, by manufacturers who i know of.So the cost of = manufacturing a lv purse in france is maybe 200 euros and the mark up is 100 %.Why can someone make a similar purse and charge less.
One does not have to travel to china to buy counterfeit goods.Anyone travelling to greece and especially to rhodes, crete and neighbouring islands can confirm that all shops there sell counterfeit designer goods such as belts, handbags, caps, tee shirts, watches etc.I travel regularly to greece and have found it safest to buy things such as sun cream, toothpaste and necesssary medicines her in norway before i leave.I recently bought colgate toothpaste in crete which was supposedly made in malawi which hardened after opening
It tragic that people are so shallow that they buy fakes in the first place.At the very least, it an admission that they are inadequate and are trying to emulate their over paid brethren.Yes, it an outrage that some people are so profligate that they spend a couple of grand on a handbag or maybe a grand for a belt.For heaven sake, what happened to our society?Nonetheless, it still 100% ethical that the manufacturers have a right to their own intellectual and brand name property. (Having said that, i not shed any tears if luis vuitton went to the wall they are the ugly face of an iniquitous society).
Who cares if a whole city economy depends on illegal activity?That irrelevant. (Would we be concerned if a city were reliant on child prostitution and faced economic ruin if such activities were stamped out? )
Let bring china to book.They are flooding the world with rubbish, they sanction illegal activities, they are the world leading human rights infringer and are the major contributor to global warming due to over usage of natural resources.We don need china for anything.We should be making our own products.We don need to steal, by proxy, in encouraging intellectual theft and inculcating ourselves with this insane mentality.
I personally wouldn buy a fake handbag and i think it would be hilarious to see someones fake handbag ripped to shreds by french customs.
Regardless of designers are charging if you cannot afford the product it doesn give you the right to break the law by purchasing a fake.It means you have to find something in your budget thats what the consumer needs to understand.
I will say this in the defense of a designer handbag, i happy to shell out the 200 plus pounds for one because they last a long time and the value is in their construction and materials.I have one that i been using for 5 years and probably has another 2 to 5 in it if i take care it.You aren going to get that quality with a fake.
Business conscious and intelligent people knows that it illegal to produce as well as buy fake products.But sometimes, [URL=http://www.thebopps.co.uk]www.thebopps.co.uk[/URL] vanity pushes people to buy fakes because they want to be with the latest fashion, but can afford the price of the genuine ones.So its up to the government of that certain country to impose and implement laws to control, if not prohibit the manufacture, sale, or illegal use of brandnames of(Signatures)Branded products.Yes, the buyers should also be punished for tolerating such illegal acts and driving the manufacturers to produce more fakes by buying.I like the idea of confiscating fake lv in fairness to those who are using genuine ones.I rather enjoy using my locally made handbag woven intricately from abaca fibers than be embarassed in public by sporting fake ones.
So, did you see any fake olympics merchandise?I bet not.They appear to have been nearly 100% successful.Everyone from the manufacturers and their employees, to the government officials(Who benefit indirectly in many cases directly)To the consumers in china and elsewhere make or money from this business.
Yes, it should be illegal in china, as it is in other countries with strictly ip laws.If china wants to join the rest of the developed world, then institutionalized(Or at least tacitly acknowledges)Theft needs to be stopped.There is growing awareness of the importance of it, and the chinese defend their own ip vigorously.When there enough chinese ip competing in the world market, maybe reform will truly come to china.
China, among other asian nations, thrives on this kind of piracy while their governments limit legal foreign imports.I recall visiting hong kong some years back to see stocks of microsoft latest operating system, not even official yet released on the market, piled high and for sale at cutrate prices.Currently i live in south korea, where you can walk down the street and find hollywood dvds four for ten bucks this in a country that touts its own cottage movie industry and limits how many hollywood movies can play here.My university uses one copy of microsoft to boot up all their department computers.Who gets hurt?The consumers who buy substandard products, from fake medicine to knock off car parts, get hurt.Workers in the west get hurt by steadily losing their jobs to a globalized piracy that works hand in glove with import restricting countries that sanction such piracy to make up for their shortage of honest industry.The quality and accessibility of good products suffers as legit companies either go out of business or else spend exorbant amounts of money trying to control their market while addding copy protection that thieves always end up overcoming.This is a problem requiring global policing with teeth in it for any countries that continue to harbor this kind of illlicit activity.
I guess i will not feel embarassed if my fake lv bag was ripped to pieces.I be angry and yes i buy again.For a bag is a bag to me regardless of the name or brand.If it were a good fake and served me for a year or more, i cherish and treasure it like a favorite shirt.Yes, there are good fakes and bad fakes.If i could afford the original bags, perhaps i would buy one.But i can use and abuse an original one the way i would with a fake one.
I know a neighbor who dedicated an 30sqm just to store 48 original bags [different brands in their original shopping bags with the receipt in them].She use them for a week and that it.She buys them to show them off, than for their functionality.
While i agree with such comments, i think it over simplifies a complex problem.The mentality that justifies saving money to buy fakes comes from a very young age.When chinese are older, they may buy fake lvs, but this comes from what they have seen throughout their lives.
It would be like asking americans to reduce usage of cars and ride bicycles and public transit more often, or recycle their garbage.Such habits won change overnight once they 18 and have a driver license, or if they have been throwing away trash in a single bag throughout their childhood
I think in both cases, something drastic will be required to change minds in both countries.In the case of fakes, i hope outside countries devise of ways of solving the problem rather than simply do finger pointing. [URL=http://www.thebopps.co.uk]cheap louis vuitton[/URL]
The third to last paragraph of the article is often heard but very funny.The very reason why they bought fakes is because the original costs a lot of money;If the originals were cheap, then the fakes no longer acts as a status symbol.
The buyer and seller should definitely be punished.Remember we are talking about luxury brands, not life saving medicines.Once you buy a fake you affect the livelihood of workers of legitimate factories that supply these luxury brands.Saying international brands are just greedy and shouldn tmt be charging so much in the first place is not a justification.International luxury brands are what they are because of the price they charge.That is what makes them special or if they are greedy, then buyers of fakes are vain and cheap.
Branded goods have cultivated a culture of insecurity.If i don wear an original, i not good enough.Somehow wearing the real(Spelt hyper expensive)Jeans or dress or [URL=http://www.thebopps.co.uk]www.thebopps.co.uk[/URL] accessories will make me a superstar.Brands are for wannabes and insecure people.
About fakes, i believe that customers of the original wont buy fakes and 90% of copy buyers are people who cannot afford it in the first place.The fake goods are not like fake medicine.They don hurt or kill anyone.Fakes are a trip of fantasy for cheap.So why not?
It would be interesting to interview people at charles de gaulle, arriving from china and africa.When i lived in los angeles, i was stunned by the amount of women happily toting a complete fake while trying to channel paris hilton.In paris, they not something [URL=http://www.thebopps.co.uk]louis vuitton uk[/URL] you see often.You do see women of african origins on the train with fake louis vuitton woolen blankets, earrings, purses and i believe even shoes.Maybe i would ask them if they know what the fine in france is for possession of counterfeit goods.The maximum is over $400k usd.Then maybe i would ask if they knew they could go to prison for possession of counterfeit goods.It would be interesting to learn why people think its okay.It would be interesting to hear how they substantiate the idea that these companies price their goods too high.Want a paris based scout? ;)
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