Pssst, wanna buy a Prada bag for $20?

smartasshat:

A Movado watch for $25, a Gucci handbag for $20.

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Federal officials, working with the Derry police, spent two years investigating the sale of counterfeit products at a local flea market.

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Buying a product that looks like the real thing but isn’t may seem like a victimless crime, but it isn’t. Among the victims are the people who lost a job or didn’t get one because of the counterfeit trade

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Wow. Unbelievably flawed logic. No one who pays $20 for a Gucci bag would pay $700 for it if the fake weren’t around. Yeah, I get that they shouldn’t be allowed to put fake labels on shit, but a two year investigation to raid a flea market? Please.

Haha… that logic is pretty self-serving.  To their point though (but certainly not in agreement), those that are willing to drop $700 on a handbag are going to be less likely if the $20 version is being flaunted by the “undesirables”.

Source: smartasshat