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TexasGal · Kenneth Cole

Knockoffs

carmenb513 · Coach

Hmmmmmmmmmm. I have to think about tis one.Considering the fact that most designers wouldn't wrap their leather bags in plastic (the leather needs to breathe) I think they may be fake...I could be wrong.

JoceyBaby23 · Gucci

Wrapped in plastic is the NUMBER ONE give-away that the bag is a fake. Trust I have done my research on this issue! NO top designers do this, that I have ever come across anyway.

tara t · Marc Jacobs

when i bought my marc jacobs bag from the marc jacobs store in NYC it was wrapped in plastic...

Rica · Kenneth Cole

Yeh, they are really good knock offs. I dunno... anytime I see knockoffs like that I imagine an adorable lil Chinese girl slaving away on a huge dirty sewing machine and getting paid pennies a month. It makes me sad on many levels.

Dang Debbie Downer! Anyway, good knock offs, don't support child labor, save up and buy the real thing is you really want one.

TexasGal · Kenneth Cole

Oh no, I'm not looking to purchase. Personally, I'd rather carry a no-name real bag than a knockoff. But I was just surprised by how convincing some of these knockoffs look. And that website has so many designer bag knockoffs. It's just kind of a downer to spend the money on a real bag only to see all these other fake ones floating around. Or what if someone wonders if yours is fake!

calico · Kenneth Cole

Rica wrote:

Yeh, they are really good knock offs. I dunno... anytime I see knockoffs like that I imagine an adorable lil Chinese girl slaving away on a huge dirty sewing machine and getting paid pennies a month. It makes me sad on many levels. Dang Debbie Downer! Anyway, good knock offs, don't support child labor, save up and buy the real thing is you really want one.

I can't say this for sure... but I imagine that there are actually lots of REAL handbags that are produced using child labour. So really, while I wouldn't buy a a knockoff (like Texasgal said, I'd rather buy a no-name real bag than a knockoff brand-name one) I don't think that you can just assume that because it costs five hundred dollars, it's produced without using child labour. It really depends on the company and their beliefs (think Nike- they are a name brand, a HUGE empire and, even though they don't have five hundred dollar bags, they can definately afford to pay their employees regular wages, and one wouldn't think that they use(d) child labour as a means of production). Something to think about... it crossed my mind earlier today too haha.

Cortney1982 · Chanel

I thought designer bags were expensive because they were put together by skilled craftsmen using the finest materials? So I sure hope they weren't made in a sweatshop of any sorts! I was once looking online at bags and this website had the same pictures of bags that Coach.com had. And get this: in small print on their website it said there handbags were only replicas. Must be bad ones if they don't show the pictures of what you will get. Plus they were half the price of the real thing!

-- Edited by Cortney1982 at 01:31, 2005-07-28