Counterfeiting excels

The message reads: “Messi shirt is already available Inter Miami In pink, black or in the third group. The price varies between 25 and 30 euros and delivery takes place in about 20 days by regular mail in unquestionable packaging.

Another Instagram profile posts a video that goes inside the store where they see the handbags Louis VuittonAnd Gucci shoes and even the manufacturing process of any product of these luxury companies. Although Meta checks and closes these accounts, another always appears until the hop hits Telegram and everything disappears from view of the authorities.

Inter Miami

Back to Messi. When the Argentine was not officially signed, pictures of fans wearing pink Inter Miami jerseys bearing the number 10 were already circulating online. The circograph assumes about 3 euros more, such as the MLS, LaLiga or ChampionsAnd In the case of European teams.

On the Florida team’s website, there is no trace of an alleged third group owned by these mafias but it is not known how. Fitted models and other materials are exact replicas of the “Player’s Edition” shirts officially sold at 180 euros on the Adidas or Nike websites.

In the month of June, you can already buy more than 50 team jerseys from 2023-2024 season It won’t start until August.

A carrier from an international company calls the phone and delivers a Huge package. Inside is a Louis Vuitton bag and a leather strap. Hermes for which 400 euros were paid. In the store, the bag is over 2,000 euros and the belt is up to 1,000 euros.

the Quality It’s too long. Almost identical, not to mention that only a forgery specialist knows how to spot the differences. Loose stitching, bigger magnets… no difference.

fake levels

Actually, yes there is. in pages Gomorrah (Debucket, 2010), Robert Saviano It explains how fakes have different levels of quality and that many of them are made from the original product that has been discarded for some reason.

In these cases, the quality of the napkinWhich is identical to the original, and the ability to get patterns and sew models.

We’re not talking about secret flats in Chinatown new York. Those dark places where a tourist enters a luxury park to buy bags and bags with LV at an exorbitant price. This is what it is sold in main field Madrid is bad copies encourage mafia and illegal immigration.

Real fakes of high-value products travel on other highways as they fly on radar police They can’t control everything.

The new customs regulations will review products with a value of less than 150 euros, but this will affect brands such as it is in also AliExpress whose products may be of lower quality, but they are not fake.

Major brands claim that they lose 7% of their sales by imitation. And they have to give thanks because, although there are facilities, not many people want to be involved in these online payment issues and Secret orders.

culture

The problem is cultural and economic. People don’t care to wear a shirt real madrid False and pay 30 euros for it. He does not understand that behind the official there is a designer and a team that is investing time and money in its development. By the way, these teams are designing more and more models ugly With the sole purpose of making it difficult for counterfeiters.

There will come a day when these people understand and evaluate a quality product, but then they will find out price. Luxury culture has that unreachable point that makes it special and unique and only it can be faked.