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I get the feeling that Chinese businesses (who are making the real products as well) are shouting to the American consumer "you are getting ripped off, here's how much these products cost without a huge profit margin." There are plenty of low quality fakes, but as Jack Ma said, some are better than the licenced versions.
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The Wayfarers and Aviators are all produced exclusively in Italy. It is not hard to tell fake Luxotticas.
No longer true; earlier this year I ordered a pair of aviators[1] from Ray-Ban directly (to avoid precisely what this entire thread is about), and they were made in China. [1]: http://www.ray-ban.com/usa/sunglasses/RB8307%20MALE%20011-av...
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You ordered a cheap jacket and the quality of the jacket you received was commensurate with the price and met your expectations. What is the irony?
the irony is that I ordered a cheap generic jacket and got a cheap counterfeit jacket. meaning I was OK with generic Chinese merchandise, but it is more convenient for them to supply counterfeits than to produce something actually white-labeled.
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> "savoir faire" I don't understand this phrase. All the definitions i found seem to be about personal behavior. Is there an alternate definition? What are you trying to convey?
"know how" in French
OP seemed to be referring to technical competency for an entire industry.
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Maybe they're better at tracking now, but at least while I was there tracking them down was a massive problem.
You worked for Amazon, or you were a seller? My info comes from https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... , which says commingled stuff is tracked by seller under "How Amazon Tracks Stickerless, Commingled Inventory".
On the face of it, I cannot see how it would present a problem, except for the obvious one of scale. It would be interesting to learn the precise details of how Amazon implements its tracking policy.
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"know how" in French
In french is the term restricted to an individual? All of the definitions I found see me to relate to "know how react/behave according to prevailing social rules", eg: "the ability to behave in a correct and confident way in different situations". OP seemed to be referring to technical competency for an entire industry.
Every time I see counterfeit power adapters/chargers on Amazon I wonder why the original maker–e.g. Apple–doesn’t lean on Amazon to stop the sale of those. Additionally, if someone dies or a house burns down[0], couldn’t that open Amazon to lawsuits? [0] http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pr...
Because there's no easy way of telling if they are fake. What if they bought a bunch at the Apple store and are selling them at a lower price to get rid of the inventory?
https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MagSafe-Adapter-MacBook-Display...
Now read this review (verified purchase):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RNA9AYHGA5JG0/ref...
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Co-mingling isn't set by default (or wasn't last I was selling a couple months ago), you have to select it, and it can be bad news for a seller (one seller got banned from amazon and had to pay to destroy or ship home 50k products because one of the items in the stack that got sold "by him" was counterfeit)
I assume you're referencing https://startupnation.com/start-your-business/plan-your-busi... , which I've seen referenced a couple times as an Amazon seller. There are a couple of problems with his story. First, Amazon denied it was due to comingling: "I’m just calling to inform you that there were no other sellers of that item that were in the co-mingling program" Second, he apparently didn't show up to the lawsuit a…
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the irony is that I ordered a cheap generic jacket and got a cheap counterfeit jacket. meaning I was OK with generic Chinese merchandise, but it is more convenient for them to supply counterfeits than to produce something actually white-labeled.
Why would it be cheaper to design, make and sell two different jackets versus one?