Just a girl,
You're really overly dramatic about this.
A bag is not the purpose of ones life.
Judging a person by the bag she carries is ridiculous.
My boss is a billionaire and his favorite thing is some cheap Chinese pouchette. I purchased an Hermes pouche for his bday but he says it's too heavy and he's just used to his Pouche, it's very smart organized inside. Some Chinese worker did a good job with this fake leather ugly thing.
And his wife has a bag that kind of looks like a fake mono LV Alma but different signs of the mono. He bought it for her on their vacation 20 years for her and she loves it. She carries it with pride just like her crocodile Kelly and other expensive items.
Bags and brands don't define people.
The bags you mentioned in your reply sound as if they might be inspired bag. Inspired bags are NOT the issue, NOR are cheap leather bags made in China.
OP was talking about actual COUNTERFEIT bags that are illegal.
Europe is more strict about this, in France it can be a fine of a few THOUSAND Euros just for OWNING a fake handbag. Personally, I hope this catches on around the world.
As for the accusations, perhaps YOU have mistaken me for somebody else on this thread??
You accuse me of Judging a person by the bag she carries. THEN you accuse me of insinuating that Bags and brands define people.
Can you please show me what I said that would give you the impression that I think
"bags and brands define a person" ?
Or, what I said that lead
you to believe that I feel it is OK to "Judge a person by the bag she carries" ?
and perhaps what I said that was suggesting that
"a bag is the purpose of ones life?"
Fact is, I didn't judge or criticize OP for buying the counterfeit bags.
My first post, I simply suggested that she destroy them, make a Youtube Video maybe a Counterfeiting PSA
My next posts I went on to give detailed examples of what can happen once OP gives these to somebody else.
This is how it often happens. A friend gives away her fake bags to her friend or acquaintance.
That friend ends up giving the bags to somebody else, and eventually the bags end up on ebay, or in a Thrift Shop. NOT because the friend is dishonest or anything, but, because they then passed the bags to one of their friends, or maybe down the line, somebody throws them away, and somebody else finds the fake bags, and cleans them up to sell to somebody else.. .. etc
etc
My concern is that this can have expensive consequences for INNOCENT people down the line.
By the way, I don't care about the NAME brands.. That was never my point. I don't care if there is some cheap leather bag.
My point is that ONCE those fake/ Counterfeit bags are in somebody else's hands, OP no longer has any control as to where they eventually end up, whether that be a Thrift Shop or on ebay.
Fake bags end up costing BUYERS on ebay a LOT of money, time and stress. The MINIMUM a buyer will lose on ebay from unknowingly buying a fake bag is roughly $50, that can also jump to $2,000 PLUS, if they did not know to have it authenticated when they bought it. Most people don't know to have bags authenticated or where to have this done. That is just the reality of the secondary market.
Perhaps
if you spent time on the ebay sub-forum and spent your time helping buyers get their money back after they have been sold a Fake/ COUNTERFEIT bag, then maybe you would understand WHY I am so passionately against disposing of fake bags in this manner.
I've seen it TOO many times, here on tPF and on ebay forums.
This is why I spend some of my free time helping Buyers get their hard-earned money back, after they have been sold one of these fake bags.
The Reality is, I haven't even touched on the Social and Political ramifications of the Counterfeit business.
The Human toll ..
Human Trafficking.
Child Labor
Dangerous Labor conditions
Sweatshops
Slavery
Organized crime
The damage they do to the environment
and the fact that they fund Terrorist Organizations.
"'I remember walking into an assembly plant in Thailand a couple of years ago and seeing six or seven little children, all under 10 years old, sitting on the floor assembling counterfeit leather handbags,' an investigator told me... 'The owners had broken the children's legs and tied the lower leg to the thigh so the bones wouldn't mend. [They] did it because the children said they wanted to go outside and play.'"
From the book, Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster.
But, hey, you think I am being overly dramatic.
Then for somebody to use the argument: the bag is somebody's hard work, and it's a shame to waste it.
That is just completely turning a blind eye to the realities of the counterfeiting business
and attempting to dress it up as something that it ISN'T.
These bags have a LOT of very toxic chemicals.. These are NOT made by fine leather.
These are LITERALLY made by Slaves and Child Labor.
HOW can that be a handbag worth keeping?
Like somebody else pointed out:
If this was a Counterfeit $20 Bill, would you still want to give it to a friend or keep it, because it was somebody's hard work?
Of course NOT, because they are ILLEGAL!!
THE FIGHT AGAINST FAKES
Child labor, terrorism, human trafficking: Buying counterfeit designer goods is hardly harmless, Dana Thomas reports
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a359/the-fight-against-fakes-0109/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/10/14/fashion-counterfeit-handbags/2984293/
http://fightthefaux.blogspot.se
Children are also the victims of counterfeiting. It is reported that children between the ages of 13 and 15, who come from single parent families in China, are forced to send the children into the cities in order to survive, should the parent become ill. There are also children that are orphans or separated from their parents, and put together goods night and day in sweatshops producing fake Gucci and Burberry bags (to name a few). The only education they receive are the skills needed for the assembly line. They eat what they are given, which is usually plain rice. They also live in squalor, sleeping on rotten wooden floors. The young, the vulnerable, the oppressed, the exploited, are the humble foot soldiers to counterfeiting. However, China is not the only place exploiting children. Raids carried out in New Yorks Brooklyn suburb have found similar conditions. They found illegal workers hiding in filthy cellars serving as counterfeiting sweatshops. Sometimes the workers are even locked in so that they cannot escape, even in the event of a fire. These sweatshops are run by organized crime rings. (icc-ccs.co.uk)
Some counterfeit operations go to extreme lengths to keep the children working. It has been testified that children in counterfeiting factories in China have had their legs broken and improperly reset so that they cannot leave or go out to play.
I love this bag. It costed me 300$ or so but its stunning. 
