Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A small percentage of factories in China produce quality products. The fakes made in the same factory to the same standards as designer bags are scarce and heavily gatekept.

Most of the fakes have inferior stitching or other features that give them away. The manufacturer knows consumers buying fakes can’t examine or return them.

Many of those chinese factories use slave labor, uygher concentration camp victims, and child labor.

Coming to America thank you Trumpers.

You are confused.

Anonymous wrote:People in the market for luxury handbags should be following Tanner Leatherstein. He’s a leather pro who takes apart bags to analyze the materials and craftsmanship.

He talks about the factories in Spain, Italy, etc.

If you didn’t know LV and Dior were junk, maybe watching him take them apart and point out the issues with their leather would help!

https://www.instagram.com/tanner.leatherstein

http://tiktok.com/@tanner.leatherstein

He's just selling his channel. My LV Epi leather bags are over a decade old and with one especially, I've hauled my laptop, lunch etc in it for years. It looks pristine.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A small percentage of factories in China produce quality products. The fakes made in the same factory to the same standards as designer bags are scarce and heavily gatekept.

Most of the fakes have inferior stitching or other features that give them away. The manufacturer knows consumers buying fakes can’t examine or return them.

Many of those chinese factories use slave labor, uygher concentration camp victims, and child labor.

Coming to America thank you Trumpers.

China is unbelievably crooked with intellectual property theft.

They even steal photos from small mom and pop sellers and individual artisans on Etsy, social media or individual websites. They steal the photos, remove and replace the watermarks (poorly) then repost the photos on Ebay, Amazon, Shein, Temu, Aliexpress, etc, selling poorly made fakes for 1/10 or less of what the artist needs to sell the item at. They steal one of a kind pieces too. It is not just big designers and national brands that they steal from. They steal from microbusinesses and individual artisans, often causing those companies to go out of business. Even through China is supposed to follow DMCA, they don't unless it is a US website like Amazon. The Chinese sites just ignore the small business' DMCA filings, and either immediately repost the stolen photos or leave them up.

Every person with a shred of ethics should do what they can to to avoid purchasing chinese made items. It is really difficult because they have such a monopoly, but even choosing other countries' products now and then is a step in the right direction.

I think the real question here is even when buying "Luxury" items, can we stomach what the actual cost would be if we brought the production back to the US?

If you could get the Coach bag for $299 (and knew it was from China) vs the "American Made" Coach bag for $499, which would you honestly buy? I think the sad truth is we're so used to the lower price, even if we understand it wasn't made here.


You are endorsing slavery so you can have more cheap crap.

Chinese cheap fast fashion and production with zero guardrails also destroys the environment.

Google Myanmar and smart phone batteries

You cannot claim to support green anything while also being a Temu Shein shopper.

I'm not endorsing anything. I was in the Beijing airport decades ago and saw all the fakes (and the threat of being detained if I was caught with one - that cured me of that urge forever)....I've been in the fake markets before they were shut down.

I don't buy anything from Temu/Shein etc.

I was asking a rhetorical question. While I don't do this, I think the people that DO do this have to ask themselves a question - are they will to support all of the things you list above, for that knowingly Chinese-made bag/product?

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure why I am shocked. I do feel bad for those spending $$$$ who could have been buying the same bag for far, far less.

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/luxury-lies-exposed-china-outs-us-brands-playing-the-made-in-america-game/ar-AA1CPeHY?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds

I don’t understand how this is importnt or shocking. Same shit all made in China and sent over on mass cargo ships.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A small percentage of factories in China produce quality products. The fakes made in the same factory to the same standards as designer bags are scarce and heavily gatekept.

Most of the fakes have inferior stitching or other features that give them away. The manufacturer knows consumers buying fakes can’t examine or return them.

I always lol when someone mentions the superior stitching. Girl, the inferior stitching is fine! It’s just holding leather together. God can’t tell if your stitching is slightly crooked. The cheaper bag is not going to break on you. You can chillax about the stitching.

Women don’t buy designer bags for function.

I wish the fakes on Amazon used real leather instead of PU fake leather. I’d be so happy to buy a fake real-leather bag for $300 but the options seem to be a fake fake-leather bag for less than $80 or a real designer bag for $4000+.

Anonymous wrote:I think the real question here is even when buying "Luxury" items, can we stomach what the actual cost would be if we brought the production back to the US?

If you could get the Coach bag for $299 (and knew it was from China) vs the "American Made" Coach bag for $499, which would you honestly buy? I think the sad truth is we're so used to the lower price, even if we understand it wasn't made here.

Neither I could but wouldn't pay either price or a purse.

This is widely known unless you have been living under a rock since 2016.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the real question here is even when buying "Luxury" items, can we stomach what the actual cost would be if we brought the production back to the US?

If you could get the Coach bag for $299 (and knew it was from China) vs the "American Made" Coach bag for $499, which would you honestly buy? I think the sad truth is we're so used to the lower price, even if we understand it wasn't made here.

You are endorsing slavery so you can have more cheap crap.

Chinese cheap fast fashion and production with zero guardrails also destroys the environment.

Google Myanmar and smart phone batteries

You cannot claim to support green anything while also being a Temu Shein shopper.

https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/transition-minerals/fuelling-the-future-poisoning-the-present-myanmars-rare-earth-boom/

https://www.asiafinancial.com/china-rare-earth-miners-poisoning-northern-myanmar-report

Anonymous wrote:I think the real question here is even when buying "Luxury" items, can we stomach what the actual cost would be if we brought the production back to the US?

If you could get the Coach bag for $299 (and knew it was from China) vs the "American Made" Coach bag for $499, which would you honestly buy? I think the sad truth is we're so used to the lower price, even if we understand it wasn't made here.

You are endorsing slavery so you can have more cheap crap.

Chinese cheap fast fashion and production with zero guardrails also destroys the environment.

Google Myanmar and smart phone batteries

You cannot claim to support green anything while also being a Temu Shein shopper.

Anonymous wrote:A small percentage of factories in China produce quality products. The fakes made in the same factory to the same standards as designer bags are scarce and heavily gatekept.

Most of the fakes have inferior stitching or other features that give them away. The manufacturer knows consumers buying fakes can’t examine or return them.

Many of those chinese factories use slave labor, uygher concentration camp victims, and child labor.

Anyone seen this Reddit? I could not tell you which is authentic vs. replica
https://www.reddit.com/r/RepladiesDesigner/s/mpkjcrDpgf

People in the market for luxury handbags should be following Tanner Leatherstein. He’s a leather pro who takes apart bags to analyze the materials and craftsmanship.

He talks about the factories in Spain, Italy, etc.

If you didn’t know LV and Dior were junk, maybe watching him take them apart and point out the issues with their leather would help!

https://www.instagram.com/tanner.leatherstein

http://tiktok.com/@tanner.leatherstein