Posted on 06/14/2016 5:23:00 PM PDT by cba123
It is hard...amd like you said, subtle. Until they buy a hooch LV and realize the leather doesn.t ‘patina’....and stays pink, platic crap where the platic veneer is peeling off.
My sister’s friend bought a ‘Coach’ bag.....only realizing, later, that it said ‘Cooch’. LMAO! That still cracks us up.
Forgive my poor spelling w/o my reading glasses.
I’ve heard this for decades.
Two shifts for the original orders and the third shift making knock offs.
Are you thinking of Kodak ?
Glass manufacturers are leaving us at an alarming rate. Glass is a classical industrial product and companies who have been around for over a century are now going out of business.
It’s quite sad. I hope we can rebuild someday.
I’m reminded of Waterbury CT. Once the center of _global_ manufacturing now it’s a dangerous, dangerous ghetto.
It’s called “Midnight Manufacturing”.
Yeah that’s funny. All my stuff is totally authentic so inevitably when we are somewhere someone will notice my bag and start to tall me what a great deal they got on theirs Yada Yada. I’ll glance at it and most of the time it’s fake and I tell them so. Then they start yammering about why it’s real. I usually just smile and say.....hmmmm okaaaay. Lol. Gets them every time.
Happens a lot when I’m carrying my LV or Chanel.
I was thinking of them and Bausch & Lomb plus maybe a couple more.
At one time B&L made some of the best optics in the world. A WWII B&L binocular made after around 1943 when they began coating the lenses are on a par with all but the very best even today. They are better than most, and way better than many.
Back when I had a free choice of eyeglass setups, I used B&L exclusively.
Now it’s tough to find them out there. And I’ve also learned the importance of new eye testing every year (at least) and I buy whatever is on the counter.
But I agree, high-end optics are an heirloom piece at this point.
Gleasons made the lenses for Kodak Cameras in Rochester. Wartime aerial cameras were made there. All the movie reels of bombing were from there for a long time.
Kodak is so small I do not know about Gleasons...
Stromberg Carlson was there too...
The "store brand" groceries have been this way forever. Look at when there is a recall. "Del Monte" and 20 different "Albertson's Best", or some similar such thing.
Fakes as good?
Uh... that hasn’t been my experience.
When you can sell a $20 handbag for $400 just because of the label, it’s a surprise that people game the system?
Zeiss comes to mind.
He’s the fake purse ninja.
If ya Rent it and don’t buy it it might be a Good Thing.
The poor guys that are married to the High Maintenance Real McCoy are the real losers. They pay Retail.
I am not sure what the relationship is but there is at least a historical one between Schott and Zeiss. I think one owns part of the other but not sure which way that goes.
Corning Incorporated is an American manufacturer of glass, ceramics, and related materials, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The company was known as Corning Glass Works until 1989, when it changed its name to Corning Incorporated.
It’s not about quality. It’s about status. A $1 watch from Dollar Tree will tell time just as well as a $30,000 Rolex.
Yep - if it's paste, it's a waste, if it's real, it's got the feel. Only boors would be caught dead with fake good stuff.
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