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Fake Louis Vuitton bags in Chinatown

October 30th, 2004 | Category: General

So Chris’s friends were in town this weekend. After getting some soup dumplings at the ever-amazing Joe’s Shanghai they wanted to walk along Canal street to pick up some fake Louis Vuitton bags.

You can always spot them by their big black garbage bags. There will be a woman out with the trash bag with some samples. The woman will have a nextel walkie talkie as well, getting a constant stream of information about the police locations.

We spotted one and went over. She was selling them for $35 each. Once she saw us she led us up a side street off of Canal and showed us the bags. Shelly didn’t find any that she wanted, so the bootlegger brought out a photo album filled with pictures of Louis Vuitton bags and wallets. Once Shelly picked one, she got on the walkie talkie and told someone to bring the bag to us. A few minutes later a man came down the street with the bag and a wallet in a plastic shopping bag.

The crazy thing was how much it all seemed like a drug deal. One person to lead people back to buy the bags, spotters on the streets with walkie talkies to warn about the police, and a stash where the bags are stored with runners to bring the bags out.

Crazy!

Comments
  • guess who
    Thank God for counterfeits! At last, us mere mortals can for a few dollars, dress up go out and look and feel a million dollars! Why shouldn't we be able to do that if we want? So it's fake, so what? Most of the genuine articles are bought by "fake" people!
  • Anonymous
    Actually, this is how some people in China make their incomes. The only way is by getting their wares in America by taking real parts off of the assembly lines and putting them together elsewhere, or actually kicking them off the assembly lines. You're actually supporting people when they sell you these things. Buy away.
  • Anonymous
    I think that if it looks real, feels real and holds up as a real one. No one has to know that
    it's fake.

    Tiffany Kirby, Oklahoma
  • I thought this blog was supposed to be about young men with lycanthropy fetishes?
    Oh well, I'm a rock musician with a lycanthropy fetish. My name is Mike and I'm 24 years old.
  • Mark
    I thought in these sorts of deals the first one was always free. Shows what I know. You city folk confuse me with your complex urban mind games.
  • Min
    they're probably Korean... or Chinese, selling Korean made knock-offs. Sigh, I'm ashamed, so ashamed.
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