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In Reply to: RE: Partsconnexion.com is shipping counterfeit Oyaide Plugs! posted by becketma@yahoo.com on December 11, 2008 at 17:02:23
Parts Connection was not buying "real" Oyaide products, they were buying fakes. If they were purchasing legitimate Oyaide products, they would have placed their orders and received product through Joe Cohen and the Lotus Group, who is the authorized importer for North America. Further, Oyaide did not "cut him (sic) out of the pipe line"....Oyaide had nothing to do with the products Parts Connection was buying out of mainland China, or wherever those fake parts originated.
There is a long history of fake and grey market products originating out of China. Some of the top luxury companies in the world have been victim to these practices (want to buy a Gucci handbag for $20?). 60 Minutes and 6moons have covered some of these stories. Now Oyaide, over the last couple of years, has become one of the latest victims in the audio world. There are a lot of high-end electronics and cabling floating around for sale all over the world....reliability is often questionable, and the buyer has zero recourse. It pays to make your purchases through an authorized dealer or distributor, don't you think?
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... it that the "real thing" is more often than not made in China as well.
I used to know of a factory that made Armani suits/jackets trousers.
After they filled the original/authentic orders, they continued to make them in different fabrics. Still very high quality. Exactly the same cut. These "fakes" hit the shops at between 25-50% of the price of the "real thing".
As no one ever stocked the entire range no one ever knew.
Many
brands" now just buy in and have their labels added.
This is actually a very grey area.
Very true. Srajan mentions in his Guangzhou show report and.or Melody factory tour the same gray market and R & D (rip-off and duplicate) problems faced by a number of audio manufacturers. In most cases, small manufacturers are helpless....in other cases they aren't even aware of the problem until a customer contacts the distributor in a given country, asking for return authorization for a repair. Then the manufacturer finds out that the piece in question wasn't even produced by their factory. There are many stories like this all over the world. The crux of the matter is greed by unethical shadow manufacturers, and a willing public interested in getting a bargain. And the beat goes on.
Yes, we fall for it, but are NOT the crux of the problem. A willing public knowingly buying stolen goods would be; same thing knowing they're buying knockoffs are not complaining. Complaints come from those ripped off by the seller. Let's be very clear about the diff!
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