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Re: [OM] Fwd: Shanghai camera shopping

Subject: Re: [OM] Fwd: Shanghai camera shopping
From: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:44:18 +0800
On 1/29/10, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 1/29/10, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  > Just out of curiosity: given the, shall we say, relaxed, Chinese
>  > attitude to intellectual property, how confident are you that the
>  > things on offer were genuine?
>
>
> I'd worry about really common easily forged items with brand
>  labels. Is that really a Kingston SD card? Or about expensive
>  collectibles, the expensive "Leica" that's actually a rebadged
>  Zorki or some such.
>
>  For things like my K-X, I do not think there's much concern.
>  They would be harder to forge and have neither the volume
>  of the SD cards nor the astronomical price of the Leica to
>  make it worth a forger's trouble.

On the other hand, I just found this:
http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231958

" Be sharp and check the boxes for printing errors...
" fake Nikon lenses are already out on the streets.
" I was shocked to see them. Goodness knows
" what other lens makers have fallen prey to these
" fakes. It is quite easy to spot with blotched printing
" on the boxes. On the lens itself, the silkscreened
" text has slight bleeding... so check carefully...

You see a lot of that in China. Misprinted, mismatched
or mispelled labels are a dead give away on many of
the bogus brand-name clothing items.

e.g. I have shoes that say Converse on the top,
but the soles have "Dolce and Caibana" and
"D & O".
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