The quantity and quality of counterfeit sneakers has never been greater. As online sales boom, many buyers are deliberately choosing the steal over the real.
00:00 – The counterfeit epidemic
00:57 – How does eBay authenticate goods?
03:34 – What is driving the counterfeit boom?
05:24 – How is the sneaker resale market affecting counterfeits?
07:11 – What is the role of influencers?
08:56 – China: the world’s counterfeit capital
10:45 – Is sneaker counterfeiting a victimless crime?
11:59 – Can counterfeit production be stopped?
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Most shoes are not fake. They are made by the same workers who were authorized by Nike to manufacture them. They just produce more than what they were suppose to. So if its made by the same people on the same line is it really fake.
the real brand manufacturing located in china and if a pair of shoes costs them 5 dollars from A to Z including to material so why they sale it to us as a customers for 180 $ / 200 $ ….. and the price growing !?? the real brand manufacturers responses will he to cover expenses 😂 what a joke , what expenses !? you don’t pay any taxes neither to china nor the country where your product will be export to , on top of that you pay few cent to those poor chinese employees who makes that real brand for you .
real brand are evil greedy , and they have to be taxed 70 %
Organised crime franchising and money laundering = counterfeit goods = a match made in heaven as buyers want to be perceived as wealthy, look cool, and get a great deal. Don't complain when the high street or shopping malls slowly empty or criminal gangs start to rule your streets/human trafficking migrants to man the shops. Well, they won't rob you because they know you're wearing their product. Counterfeit goods is a great income stream for criminals, many getting very rich in the process, not paying their taxes either. The problem is that counterfeits don't end with sneakers/trainers and clothes. Almost anything can be counterfeited. Be careful, your neighbour may have bought a counterfeit microwave, which shorts and ends up burning the entire apartment block down – extreme thinking, nope, expect it to happen. Anything for an Instagram like and a great deal though.
That 1.8 Mill pair of yeezys?…..come on they're used aneakers
I still believe that if you're wiling to pay more then 100 bucks for a pair of tennis shoes you are a problem of todays society lol and you shouldn't procreate.
It seems weird that shoes can cost more than $100.
If Nike shoes were $50, there would be be counterfeit market. People buy fake shoes because the real ones are overpriced.
Resellers are ruining the sneaker business
The Physical Economy was the economy that existed before the revolution in information and communication technologies. The physical economy and real economy which are the HARD INDUSTRIES IN MANUFACTURING is the REAL SOURCE OF WEALTH CREATION WHERE REAL GROWTH IS REALLY CREATED! IN THE MID-1960S, ESPECALLY IN JAPAN. THE JAPANESE PHYSICAL ECONOMY HAS ADVANCED AND IMPROVED WHEN IT STARTED USING THE PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS OF FULL MECHANIZATION AUTOMATION, COMPUTERIZATION, AND ROBOTIZATION. And started the process of expanding it's numbers. The financial economy can easily be replaced with their own IN HOUSE ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENTS and the Information and Communication technologies are just mere products of the REAL ECONOMY THAT CREATED AND MANUFACTURED THEM. AND THE REAL ECONOMY HAS BECOME MORE BRAINY AND INTELLIGENT BECAUSE IT HAS IT'S OWN "IN HOUSE (ED) AND INSOURCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY(IES) AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (IES) TO SERVICE ITSELF INDEPENDENTLY and it has it's own "inhouse (ed) and insourced science-driven R&D sectors and departments to make it highly creative and inventive and innovative and dynamically adaptable while maintaining high quality standards in all of it's own products for they are in PHYSICAL CONTACT AND PHYSICALLY IN TOUCH WITH EACH OTHER for they are inside in the same industrial compound-areas. Therefore the REAL ECONOMY AND PHYSICAL ECONOMY IS MORE INTELLIGENT AND BRAINIER THAN THE IT AND COMMUNICATIONS ECONOMY SEVERED FROM IT'S OWN REAL ECONOMY OR REAL ECONOMY. THE PHYSICAL AND REAL ECONOMY HAS BECOME NON-LABOR INTENSIVE AND MORE MECHANIZED-AUTOMATED SERVO MECHANICALLY-COMPUTERIZED-ROBOTIZED. LABOR ARE HIGHLY EDUCATED AND HIGHLY SKILLED TECHNOLOGICAL-TECHNICAL WORKERS WHO ARE JUST AS COMFORTABLE WITH A COMPUTER AS A MECHANIC WITH HIS CAR. Roughly speaking, this is the economy of the nineteenth century and before, in most developed countries. Industries like farming, mining, and labor-intensive manufacturing dominated this period. IN THE MID-1960S, ESPECALLY IN JAPAN. THE JAPANESE PHYSICAL ECONOMY HAS ADVANCED AND IMPROVED WHEN IT STARTED USING THE PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS OF FULL MECHANIZATION AUTOMATION, COMPUTERIZATION, AND ROBOTIZATION. And started the process of expanding it's numbers. The financial economy can easily be replaced with their own IN HOUSE ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENTS and the Information and Communication technologies are just mere products of the REAL ECONOMY THAT CREATED AND MANUFACTURED THEM. AND THE REAL ECONOMY HAS BECOME MORE BRAINY AND INTELLIGENT BECAUSE IT HAS IT'S OWN "IN HOUSE (ED) AND INSOURCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY(IES) AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (IES) TO SERVICE ITSELF INDEPENDENTLY and it has it's own "inhouse (ed) and insourced science-driven R&D sectors and departments to make it highly creative and inventive and innovative and dynamically adaptable while maintaining high quality standards in all of it's own products for they are in PHYSICAL CONTACT AND PHYSICALLY IN TOUCH WITH EACH OTHER for they are inside in the same industrial compound-areas. Therefore the REAL ECONOMY AND PHYSICAL ECONOMY IS MORE INTELLIGENT AND BRAINIER THAN THE IT AND COMMUNICATIONS ECONOMY SEVERED FROM IT'S OWN REAL ECONOMY OR PHYSICAL ECONOMY. The real and physical economy is far more intelligent and brainierTHAN THE INDEPENDENT IT AND COMMUNICATIONS ECONOMY (because the real and physical economy has it's own inhoused and insourced IT and Communications facilities created by the physical-real economy and it's own inhoused-insourced science-driven R&D departments and sectors and facilities within it's industrial factory compound ares). FOR The Achilles heel of the IT and Communications Economy is that IT DOES NOT PRODUCES ANYTHING TANGIBLE AND OF PHYSICAL ASSETS VALUE THAT IS PHYSICALLY PRESERVED TO SAVE ITSELF WHICH ONLY THE REAL ECONOMY IS CAPABLE OF AND TO BE LEFT BEHIND TO BE STARTED WHEN IT COLLAPSES AND DISAPPEARS.
Hype Culture caused by Greed
Even some nike store owners sell counterfeit products in their stores in some malls in Asia..
I need this in my life? We’re talking bout a shoe…….get your priorities straight.
in the UK the only colours of mens sneakers you can get are blk/wyt/grey – if you want other colours you need to buy female, foreign or fake. i dont even buy nike/puma/adidas anymore! i buy dkny/kors/iceberge/tacchini/versace/hilfiger just to get better colours
cause orginal r made by same company but just sold in high price, counterfeit look same feel same and made by same people
Chinese factories only reason not to make counterfeit ones is they are contracted with the brands. Since they are moving to Vietnam and other places, the contracts are not coming back. Why not use the machines to make more, don’t try to sue not happening.
If you dont sell the fakes for the same price as the real ones I don't see anything wrong
I always buy counterfeits, they are cheaper plus I don't care what Nike or adidas think
When I think of China, I think of deadly respiratory viruses, counterfeiting and mass produced junk that’s easy on the packet ….but hey, that’s just me
Chinese faking them
Don't support the counterfeit industry. They may be involved in human trafficking!
I bought a counterfeited nike and it gave me terrible ankles pain. Never falling for this again. These fake shoes can give you back pain.
If the price for Nike shoes and Rolex watches were at the original price and available there would be no need for theses, but these companies have made it so that people buy up all the goods then sell for 5 times the price on the grey market.
They are making in China, Vietnam and third world countries
PEOPLE who want poor quality for less money buy counterfeit goods which helps organized crime get rich around the world!
Wait..for me who didn't understood the word counterfeit in first go! Are we talking about "Adibas" versions of "Adidas"?🤣
It's simple, a lot of people can't afford the real ones. They tend to buy much cheaper ones especially online sites.
Who will pay the 1000times more than the actual price, that why people prefer counterfeit product.
When brands stopped being about quality and started to be about marketing they lost their credibility! If all that a brand stands for is a flashy marketing campaign people will see right through the bs and buy the knockoff which is invariably of equal quality to the branded stuff… Fire your overpaid marketing department and use that money to up your QC and bring manufacturing back to countries that pay a living wage and you may claw back a bit of credibility…
Because nike use slaves shops charge 8p an hour then 200quid to the high street……..its a no brainer.
In the Philippines we can buy class A replicas of branded shoes for only 5 dollars. And you cant tell the difference from the original.
Because you can get the same product. Without paying for all the advertising
Resellers played a major role in this. They overcharge so much and resell them, forcing people to look for “fakes” that are cheaper and look/feel really close to the real thing, or even better lol.
well what these companies are doing is also seems to be organised crime only