 Poster: A snowHead
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there are quite a few "name" ski jackets on EBAY that are being sold from Japan & China.
Are these all fakes as i suspect they are?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yep probably all counterfeit.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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No, they really are all genuinely ski jackets. 
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oh good, that's great news, i'll have 4 dozen 
i don't know how ebay let thewm get away with it, they must know & they do have a policy of chucking off fakes & copies. I tried to sell a watch for my son on ebay - it was a copy of a known make, & i said exactly that in the description, didn't try to fool anyone & priced it accordingly, but EBAY still chucked it off..
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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riverwhy, the difference being that you openly admited that your fake was a fake, I think even doing so doesn't make it legal to actually sell it, on the other hand untill someone actually makes a complaint about these ski jackets ebay are not going to do anything
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How many  s know that it is illegal to knowingly bring counterfeit goods into the UK?
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But then theres fake and then theres cabbage . . . my dad worked in the textile industry for years co-ordinating the manufacturing for several designers high street labels (Ralph Lauren Polo and the like). He used to find that although they would supply the manufacturers with exactly the right amount of materials for the order the pattern cutters would cut the patterns tighter/tessilate them differently in order to get more garments out for the fabric, these extra garments, made at the same time using the same materials as the real stuff would then make their way onto the counterfeit market . . . known in the industry as cabbage apparently . . . so i guess some fakes out there are copies and then there are some that will be identical to the genuine article . . .
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snobunni, Cabbage, hmmm, perhaps thats where the saying "its all gravy" comes from too? 
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A few years ago a woman buying a counterfeit something or other (a handbag, I think) in a very big Italian market just over from the French border was fined an astronomical amount - something like 25K euro. I had been at the same market a few weeks previously (looking, not buying) and my husband had been bemused by my telling him the handbags were fakes. "What do you mean, " he said "they look like real handbags to me". Hence my reply above.
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[quote="riverwhy"]oh good, that's great news, i'll have 4 dozen
i don't know how ebay let thewm get away with it,
Because they take 10% of the price as a fee, then associated company PayPal then take another 3% or so, that's why and they aren't doing anything illegal.
If something sounds to good to be true like a branded pair of Goretex XCR ski pant's for £30, you can bet they are fakes, get yourself down to TK Maxx and have a root. OK your'e not going to find a Spyder jacket there, but what you do find will be genuine and VFM.
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