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  • thank you! i have to say the vinted ads make me feel a bit old!

  • I forgot to mention that puffer jackets are counterfeited. I think there are fake Moncler and Canada Goose ones, but I'm not an expert. Some of the sellers on less regulated sites, e.g. Facebook Marketplace, are probably pushing fakes.

    To find out which ones the counterfeiters are producing you could dive into reddit.com/r/FashionReps. Or dhgate.com, a Chinese site where fakes are sold fairly openly. Often they blur the logo on the listing but send you an unblurred photo if you message them.

    There are also fake clothes/luxury goods dealers (e.g. finerlabels dot net) with links on the fake watch dealers' sites (e.g. trustytimewatch88 dot io). The trustworthy watch dealers are listed at the fake watch forums, e.g. rwg.bz and forum.replica-watch.info.

    Alibaba/aliexpress try hard not to list fakes any more, because the owner, Jack Ma, is such a big cheese that he needs to be in with the Party. The Party is getting hotter and hotter about counterfeiting. There are fake watchmakers languishing in prison. It seems they can't bribe their way out. But jobs in the fake watch workshops are highly sought after, despite the risk. So it's probably not safe to assume that pay and conditions in these illegal enterprises are like the ones which caused the Foxconn suicides.

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