OMG!! Faked H Bags from China: Styles, colors to watch for

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#31
I think the problem here is that so many people nowadays WANTS to get a Birkin or Kelly and they really don't always have any clue how the bags should look and feel.
When the market is this "hot", there will be more and more fakes, and of course there are always some unfortunate people who pay the real sums for these fakes.
If Hermes just could produce more... :nogood: And the fakes should really be banned by laws and authorities should make much stronger arrests for the fake sellers. Easy to say, hard to make happen.
 
#32
Ugh...

I just wonder - if they put so much effort into imitations and clearly their craftsmanship isn't too awful either, why not start their own brand?

I think another factor in determining fakes is the fragrance of the leather. H handbags definitely have an intoxicating tannery fragrance.
 
#33
hermesgroupie said:
Agreed, what puts the Hermes bag in a class all its own is the quality of leather used. Hermes gets first pick of all the skins in the finest tanneries, the other designers get what's left. The fakers just cannot come close to that quality leather. The bag may look great in the first few days of use, but will start to sag and droop probably within a week.
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I hate to burst your bubble as it seems that you've bought into the Hermes myths; but, unless Hermes has privately own animal stock and tanneries, that only it can access, then every other designer has access to the exact same skins as it does.

A+ grade flawless skins are available to any company that has money to buy them - which is all of them, as they are not as expensive as one might think. Before you ask; how do you know? I work in the industry, and am responsible for sourcing materials for my own designs, that's how I know. And, no, I wont tell you who I am and which company I represent: because I want you to continue to believe what my marketing people tell you and spending your money - thereby making me a wealthy man. :supacool:
 
#34
transcendent1 said:
Ugh...

I just wonder - if they put so much effort into imitations and clearly their craftsmanship isn't too awful either, why not start their own brand?
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The short answer is; there's a market for it.

Now for the reasons behind it: A lot of people may like the look of a certain designer brand's handbags, but are unwilling to pay the sometimes outrageous prices. Therefore, the replica industry steps in to fill this gap and profits from it - it's simply business to them, and a very profitable one at that. However, please notice that I said the replica industry; which is a legitimate and legal endeavor - creating a replica is not illegal, nor immoral, as long as one represents it as such. Also, a lot of the companies that do manufacture replicas also manufacture their own brands and do Original Equipment Manufacturing for other companies - which goes back to why these replicas are sometimes so good in the first place, as these companies take great pride in their work.

The counterfeit industry is a whole different kettle of fish from what I mentioned above though, and is highly illegal and unethical.

Unfortunately, the more serious counterfeiters do often buy from the replica manufacturers and then, in turn, try to sell the replicas as the real thing. The replica manufacturers have no control over what someone else does with their products once that person has bought them. Therefore, it's really out of their hands and not their fault - nor are they liable for it.

The actions of the counterfeiters has given the replica industry an unfortunate, and totally undeserved, bad reputation. And, people - unaware of the true difference between the two industries - start referring to the replicas as "fakes"; when in fact they were only ever intended to be replicas in the first place.
 
#36
Nirodha, I hear what you are saying. There are many inspired bags and they are much more affordable than Hermes. They are inspired,but they are not fakes. Hermes may be the inspiration;but if it is out of reach due to price,you can afford the inspired bag. I think that ABS Schwartz(sp)? who replicates the red carpet gowns is quite accepted. He is not trying to pass them off as the real thing. I don't have a problem with the High/Low thing. If it is a "phony" at least admit it is a "real" phony!
 
#37
Nirodha said:
... please notice that I said the replica industry; which is a legitimate and legal endeavor - creating a replica is not illegal, nor immoral, as long as one represents it as such. ...
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I don't believe this is a correct statement of fact. An exact replica birkin or kelly - even leaving off the Hermes stamping - is a violation of Hermes's property rights. If a woman walks into a room carrying a bag that everyone looks at and thinks is a *kelly,* and it is a replica, then Hermes's property rights have been violated. Hermes has the standing in a court of law to sue the manufacturer for theft of their property rights. Intellectual property - design patents, trademarked names etc - do not depend upon something as silly as leaving off the Hermes embossing.

No seller on ebay -whether fakeroos, 5 star replicas or real Hermes - ever says inspired or replica. They all say AUTHENTIC to get past ebay's trust and safety censors and to avoid Hermes's direct intervention. Hermes's intellectual property rights protect them from the replicas - if they choose to assert their rights.

Inspired is an entirely different matter. It's like the LV alma being inspired by Hermes' bolide. Close, but no cigar. So no legal standing to sue. ditto for the catwalk inspired clothing lines.
 
#42
Hee hee! I know! I might have to go snuggle up to my own little litigator now that you got me all hot and bothered. LMAO!!!

OMG the idea of me being a farm girl is just... BWHAHAHAHAH!! Heck, for my birthday one of my friends got me a necklace that proclaims that I am "Fancy".
 
#43
BTW I saw the best license plate a few months ago....a very handsome and distinguished man with silver hair at the temples, driving the big Mercedes sedan in classic silver...with the license plate "LAWYAH". I fell a little bit in love, just then.
 
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