I was doing a little surfing, and found that there are innumerable sites where you can buy all kinds of fake merchandise. You can buy fake ROLEX watches,fake MontBlanc pens, fake diamond jewelry,…even fake gucci bags, and fake levis jeans.
So, given that you can deceive pretty much everybody, why buy the realstuff anymore?
China must be full of factories turning out fakes…for those of you who have expensive tastes: would you buy and wear a fake version of a respected product? Would it shatteryour self-esteem if your best friends found out (that you wouldwillingly wear a fake item)?
If you can get away with it, then knock yourself out. But I know if I started wearing a fake Rolex, even a really good one, nobody I know would be fooled 'cuz they’d know that I couldn’t afford to buy a real one! But if it works, then I thinks it’s alright. Once, I dropped my imitation platinum watch down a long flight of concrete stairs, but it survived with absolutely no damage on account of it was made from titanium! I love my fakes!
I have long felt that Home Shopping Club and other purveyers of fine cubic zirconia products were missing the boat by making their faux diamonds so big. My wife starts wearing a 6 caret ring and NOBODY will be fooled but if it were 1/2 caret no none would suspect besides anybody who knew our real financial status and even they would think it was a gift from Mom or something.
I don’t care about “names” and “labels” so I wouldn’t waste my money on fakes. I buy the best quality I can afford when it matters, and when it doesn’t, who cares? Someone who’s going to judge me by the labels on my stuff isn’t someone I want as a friend anyway.
I’m with FCM. Name brands don’t impress me. A $100 bill will burn as fast as a $5 note. If my friends found me wearing “fake” Levi’s it wouldn’t bother me. I’m covered aren’t I? All I want to avoid is having my friends see me getting an arrest made for indecent exposure
Adam
Fake Levi’s?
Fake Gucci or Rolex I can see, but I buy my Levi’s (dark stretch bootcut numbers from the Junior Dept.), which I LOVE, for like 35 bucks. Why would I bother buying fake ones?
well, based on your question and its actual wording…
if i have expensive tastes, i take that to mean that i either like things that have a rather high aesthetic appeal or else appreciate the more intrinsic qualities that may be less visible – higher reliability factors, more precision manufacturing processes, better tailoring standards, what have you. not to say, of course, that there has never been manufactured extremely costly jewelry in excessively bad taste. ditto with “fashion”.
given that those same qualities are not as likely to be found in knock-off versions of established name-recognition items, there would be no point whatsoever in buying poor quality ripoffs (unless it was done as a deliberate joke).
if, however, i’m actually someone who’s more interested in what could be considered faux snobbery, where simply waving around some well-known designer’s name on an article of clothing or other trinket is the sole objective … then you have my full and absolute permission, nay, FERVENT REQUEST, to take me out and shoot me.
in my book, if it either is not a quality item, or else has no other characteristics of its own that make purchasing it a desirable thing to do, then slapping some overblown designer’s name on it isn’t going to interest me in the least.
hell, visibly slapping any designer’s name on something is an automatic turn-off to me.
Well, I have a real Tag Heuer watch. It is superbly machined and keeps excellent time.
I have owned other watches, and they were not as reliable.
I’m not so much interested in the “it’s a Tag” aspect as the “it’s a superb and dependable watch” aspect. I have a sense that fakes will not be as dependable or as accurate.
- Rick