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But the biggest thing I cant get my head around is the announcement that this trade in counterfeit goods finances drug dealing. If I'm "Mrs Big" in drug dealing, what the heck do I want mucking about with counterfeit designer goods?

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

My thought is why bother buying fake designer stuff, as if you are on an income as to make you buy fake stuff, no one is going to believe what you have is the genuine article. If perchance you did have the genuine article most people believe it is fake anyway, why bother.

Personally I avoid all this stuff, designer names do zilch for me, why be like everyone else.

The other thing is taste, just because it has a designer name, it is not to say the item is a design icon, just the product of people who have the right connections. I don't like it, fake or real, I won't buy it

But the counterfeit trade has to be tackled, I don't care about the designer stuff, that is of no concern, but I do care about counterfeit aircraft parts and medications to indicate the extreme, but on a more homely level, counterfeit  vehicle parts, in particular items that are of a life conserving capacity, like brake parts. Believe me, I have come across counterfeit brake shoes, the kind that when they get hot, the braking material whatever it is comes unstuck from the shoe backing, the glue used being not good enough and that braking material parts company and follows the drum. The result, loss of brakes.

Something that might concern you Lady E, I have heard counterfeit vehicle parts are big in the transport trade. Stuff clothing and jewellery designers, they can sort their own problems out, but I am all for the tracking and stopping of counterfeit peddlars who peddle life conserving fakes. Beware the cheap back street motor repairer, you just have to ask why so cheap, I hope they are not cutting corners of inadequate parts.

But saying that, I have used a cheap back street motor repairer on a regular basis, but always, I supplied the parts.

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ORIGINAL: piratecommander

Anything financing Britney Spears should be a capital offence.

(I suspect your reverence for our Home Secretary to be counterfeit and therefore likely to be a superior quality piece of thinking)

Why is it that people wear their clothes with the labels on the outside anyway ? Is it so the rest of us can tell the real from the fake ? (double entendre purely intentional)

Pirate