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U.S. police bust counterfeit Nike shoe smugglers
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| 9-5-06
Posted on 09/05/2006 4:31:57 PM PDT by Cagey
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posted on
09/05/2006 4:31:58 PM PDT
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Cagey
To: Cagey
china most favored trade nation status? nice
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posted on
09/05/2006 4:34:00 PM PDT
by
pipecorp
( muhammed .....................8(_o_)8 .................p b & j mercy is wasted on the merciless.)
To: Cagey
"two U.S. citizens and four of unspecified nationality"What am I missing here? U.S. citizens with "no nationality"?
WTF?
To: traditional1
oops....never mind....I mis-read the sentence....time to get the med's..
To: Cagey
Awwww... My how brave of them. They captured some tennis shoes but let in all the illegal invaders?
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posted on
09/05/2006 4:39:36 PM PDT
by
TimesDomain
(When a judge declares himself "MASTER", you become his "SLAVE")
To: Cagey
Ewwwwww, approximately 70 shipping containers of counterfeit junk that doesnt get paid for has to bite somebody,,,Someone in the Vivachinko connection is gonna have his head roll.
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posted on
09/05/2006 4:41:23 PM PDT
by
Concho
(IRS--Americas real terrorist organization.)
To: traditional1
Maybe they'll specify it at a more convenient time.
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posted on
09/05/2006 4:41:23 PM PDT
by
Cagey
To: Cagey
Pretty much every Tommy Bahama shirt on eBay is a fake, as far as I can tell.
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posted on
09/05/2006 4:49:05 PM PDT
by
John Jorsett
(scam never sleeps)
To: Cagey
Question - how do you tell counterfeit Nike shoes from the "real deal"? Many Nikes and Reeboks are manufactured in China anyway. Thus the fact that they are made in China isn't a giveaway.
Heck - it wouldn't surprise me if these were even made in the same factory as the "real" shoes....
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posted on
09/05/2006 5:14:39 PM PDT
by
TheBattman
(I've got TWO QUESTIONS for you....)
To: TheBattman
Question - how do you tell counterfeit Nike shoes from the "real deal"? Many Nikes and Reeboks are manufactured in China anyway. Thus the fact that they are made in China isn't a giveaway.
Real Nikes typically have some leather trim. Fake Nikes use all-vinyl trim. How do I know? I see 'em in China all the time, and marvel that they sell 'em for American prices - $70 to $100. That's a half a month's salary for the average shoe factory employee.
To: Cagey
I wonder if this was another Hezbollah operation. They're big on counterfeiting.
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posted on
09/05/2006 6:42:12 PM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
To: John Jorsett
Pretty much every Tommy Bahama shirt on eBay is a fake, as far as I can tell. How can you tell?
To: John Jorsett
the real ones are made in china - $125 each, and the quality stinks.
To: TheBattman
Heck - it wouldn't surprise me if these were even made in the same factory as the "real" shoes....That's zakly what happens, I was told by my Hong kong friends. A factory gets an order, materials to fill it, fills the order, then continues manufacturing using leftover materials or equivalent stuff it ordered on its own. Voila, Nike shoes, no different from the real "scientifically designed" thing.
To: oceanview
Isn't it amazing that people are willing to pay high prices just for a brand name which in itself means nothing?It would be different if the high priced goods were actually that much better. As for me ,no name athletc shoes at one-tenth the price suffice,AND they;re made in China,too!
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posted on
09/05/2006 7:33:02 PM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
To: hoosierham
if I'm going to pay $125 for a shirt, it had better be made in the US or in Italy.
To: oceanview
I can't conceive of $126 shirt on my income;maybe the whole suit.
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posted on
09/05/2006 7:37:26 PM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
To: Zhang Fei
Then Academy Sports must sell counterfeit Nike products, as they carry several shoes that are marked as Nike, come in Nike boxes, and are 100% vinyl.
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:59:57 PM PDT
by
TheBattman
(I've got TWO QUESTIONS for you....)
To: TheBattman
Then Academy Sports must sell counterfeit Nike products, as they carry several shoes that are marked as Nike, come in Nike boxes, and are 100% vinyl.
Maybe vinyl is the new trend. This is just amazing - they reduce the quality of the materials and mark up the price. What a racket.
To: NoCurrentFreeperByThatName
How can you tell?One big clue is that the patterns don't line up when the shirt is buttoned. There are also patterns that Tommy Bahama never made. And, the prices are just too low. They make claims like "overstock", "got from business liquidiation", etc., but if you look back in the seller's history, they seem to have an infinite supply, having sold identical items hundreds of times.
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posted on
09/06/2006 8:40:46 AM PDT
by
John Jorsett
(scam never sleeps)
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