Fake Louis Vuitton bags in Chinatown
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!
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they’re probably Korean… or Chinese, selling Korean made knock-offs. Sigh, I’m ashamed, so ashamed.
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.
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.
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
So you’re on eBay or down your local street market and you see what is plainly a Louis Vuitton fake bag, tie, pair of shoes, briefcase, scarf, watch, piece of clothing or luggage set. You look at the price and it’s 90 or even 95% lower than the recommended retail price. You look at the Louis Vuitton item again and start to convince yourself that it doesn’t actually look that bad and in a certain light you might even be able to fool your discerning work colleagues and friends. You then tell yourself that buying a counterfeit Louis Vuitton bag won’t really hurt anybody and so what if it impacts Louis Vuitton’s bottom line, they can afford it! Not an unreasonable thought process, most would agree - However…..
…It probably won’t surprise many people to read that counterfeit merchandise, whether in the form of a fake Louis Vuitton bag or a counterfeit Rolex watch or an imitation Burberry scarf or a snide Armani jacket or a copied pair of Gucci shoes or a bent pair of Evisu jeans, is to a large extend orchestrated by violent criminals and terrorists, and isn’t a harmless activity performed by a bunch of loveable rogues as some might have us believe. It’s a documented fact that the vast majority of cash generated though counterfeiting is used to fund heinous crime including Drug proliferation, Human Slave Trade and even International Terrorism. Government and Law Enforcement Agencies across the world are now shifting their attention to the counterfeit trade in an attempt to track down violent crimals and terrorists. It’s becoming more apparent that substantial sums of money are being diverted from the counterfeit trade into the bank accounts of global terror groups — including, ironically, those terror groups opposed to consumerism and Western Ideology.
So perhaps grabbing that ultra-cheap counterfeit Louis Vuitton bag from eBay or down your local street market isn’t so innocuous after all? Ironically, purchasing a copy this icon of Western consumerism might well go to fund a terror group plotting to inflict mass murder in your city. What’s more valuable to you: a fake Louis Vuitton bag or your democratic existence and perhaps even your LIFE?
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.
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!