Posted on 09/12/2013 2:15:29 PM PDT by William Tell 2
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — Is the counterfeiting of designer goods different from knock-offs? Is organized crime involved in the fashionindustry? If so, what happens to the ill-gotten gains?
As New York Fashion Week wraps up, it's high time to explore some of these issues.
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One company charges $15,000 for a handbag; another charges $150 for a virtually identical handbag.
One company charges $25,000 for a wristwatch; another charges $25 for one that keeps time just as well.
Which of the above companies are run by organized crime?
I don’t know why anyone would want most of what is considered high fashion today.
is there money to be made?
WHich Mafia?... The Italian MAfia or the D.C. Mafia?..
Course you got yer Chicago and Los Angeles Mafias as well..
I remember when Hollywood was swearing up and down to the then-new DHS that movie copying was a mmmmmmmajor source of income for terror groups.
YEAH SURE IT IS.
Oh please, how transparent.
Do bears defecate in the forests?.............
In Hong Kong it is mind-blowing, just how developed the counterfeit market is.
They have 3 or more discernible classes of fakes.
The expensive fakes, I was told, often come from the ACTUAL FACTORIES making the genuine article —they are simply pilfered and sold on the side.
I don’t actually feel too bad at the idea of buying them, as they are often “on the other side”.
You go to “woman’s town” in Hong Kong (that’s what the two characters mean, of that part of HK, not sure what the Cantonese sounds are), and there is block after block of nothing but fake designer goods.
It’s really amazing.
I don’t know why anyone would want most of what is considered high fashion today.
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Same here. I cannot understand why a woman would pay $700 for a pair of shoes.
I cannot understand why a woman would pay $700 for a pair of shoes.
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I would never! That’s stupid.
Though I do get stupid when I enter a home improvement store. I almost always leave with more than I went for.
I just get dazzled and can’t help myself. :p
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