Would you like a fake rolex with that Olympic t-shirt?
For those that missed their report on fake brand goods that aired before the Beijing Olympics, Fuji TV has aired a new report on fake Olympic t-shirts being sold on the streets the day after the Olympics ended:
The t-shirts are being sold along with other popular counterfeit brand goods, and the sales are going on in broad daylight in front of the Bird’s Nest stadium that hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the games. Foreign tourists are being sold the illegal goods in plain sight of police officers, who walk by without taking any action.
Fuji TV’s staff buys a few of the Olympic staff shirts being sold after the street salesman assures them that it is not a fake. They take the shirts to actual Olympic staff members, who tell them they’ve bought a cheap imitation. Olympic t-shirts purchased on the street also prove to be fake, something that should be obvious given the fact that the shirts are being sold for one fourth the price of official shirts.
When confronted afterwords about their products being fake, most street vendors declined to be interviewed. However, one vendor went into an angry rant about how just about everything out there in the world is fake, even people (Fuji TV took this as a reference to the lip-syncing scandal).
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“who gives a toss”
those who are already rich and cannot be more rich because of that.
Buying official Olympic goods just puts more money in the pockets of the disgustingly corrupt Olympic organizers. They already get enough in bribes, free gifts, free travel and food from hopeful cities, sports organizations seeking to become Olympic events, sports organizations seeking to keep
their Olympic status, etc. etc.
Buying fake Olympic goods is actually the “right” thing to do.
What so you can line the piockets of criminal’s instead?
Well the communists are technically criminals too, of even worse crimes. They’re not getting caught. That’s even worse if you ask me.
Instead?
You seem to miss the point.
The Olympic organizer’s ARE criminal’s.
Buying fake shirt’s from local vendor’s who make copy’s mean’s you are supporting local’s so they can buy shoe’s for their kid’s, not rich foreigner’s so they can buy gourmet meal’s and luxury car’s.
Think global. Act local.
BTW, Was my point about use of apostrophes too subtle
Un’less sai’d lo’cal ven’d'or is ju’’st a fr’o'n”t (okay, I’ll stop…) for some larger syndicate, of course….
Yeah I doubt the people running the fake industry are saint’s, they probably have their fingers in a lot of pie’s, people trafficking, drugs, gun’s, and your financing them.
I always assume that the gangsters are the ones running the factories that actualy make the “official” goods. Why go for pennies when you can get in on the real Olympic gold?
Cheap knock-offs are probably made by mom-and-pop-and-junior with a simple silkscreen setup in the back room.
PS VERY good apaostrophe abuse Joe.
I would buy licensed products but as the post says the price of the fakes is 1/4 of the original one. So if you can manufacture a t-shirt with a simple stamp on its front for 5 dollars for example why sell it for 50? For the original sticker and logo? It is my firm conviction that goods should cost enough to cover the expenses for the materials, wages for servicemen and a reasonable amount for the distributor, but this is not the case when a product is sold for twice the price than the factory price.
The reality of China is back again. After the end of the Olimpic games, more scandals in China.
Even at 400 Yen a shirt, they’re probably still making a killing. I wouldn’t be surprised if it took a mere 200Y, 100Y or even less to make the shirts, including the labor and transportation costs. This is China after all, home of most of the clothing factories that make most of the clothes people everywhere are wearing. As long as it’s mass produced, most anything can be unbelievably cheap, add to that the fact that they’re selling it inside China. It should be like buying at factory price. There’s less transportation costs, less middlemen, and they’re counterfeit to boot. The Olympics are over as well so they have to get rid of the goods soon, or risk having shirts no one is interested in.
But, yeah. If I was there, I’d try to haggle with the vendors and get quite a number of shirts for the original price. Imagine how many people you can buy souvenirs for.
What does the text blob say?