In Thailand you almost trip over the fake items: watches, clothing bags, you name it. And almost everyone has brought home a fake in their suitcase. Yet this turns out to be less innocent than it is, because Dutch retailers and manufacturers lose almost 1 billion euros annually due to the sale of cheap counterfeit clothing.
This is stated in a recently published report by the European trademark agency OHIM, NOS writes.
The Dutch clothing industry is losing income because consumers buy counterfeit branded goods while on holiday abroad. In addition, jobs in the clothing industry are at stake due to the black sale of counterfeit clothing. The Netherlands is also missing out on tax revenue.
Not only the Dutch clothing industry suffers from the sale of counterfeit clothing. For the entire European Union, the lost revenue amounts to more than 26 billion euros. Italy suffers the greatest damage. The country is responsible for half of European clothing and shoe production and loses more than 4,5 billion euros annually. Spain (4,1 billion euros), the United Kingdom (3,6 billion) and Germany (3,5 billion) follow. According to OHIM, the lost revenues are at the expense of some 363.000 jobs in the European Union.
Is the above article a reason for you not to buy counterfeit items next time you visit Thailand?
Which coveted Dutch brands can we buy copies of? Can't think of any…..how do they get to that 1 billion? There are also studies that show that the counterfeiting only stimulates the sales of the real brands. A mortal who buys an RL polo here for 200 baht is really not a lost customer for Ralph, as if he would otherwise have bought a real one for 85 euros….don't think so.
Most copies are quality junk and look bad styling. Someone who has enough money to buy a real Louis Vuitton bag is not going to walk around with such a plastic fake and vice versa.
A lot of complaining about nothing in my opinion. This does not apply to software piracy, which is quite different, after all, you get the identical product as the original.
Yes, that's all very awful, but how do they calculate that 'damage'?
Do they assume that a Dutch person who buys a fake bag in Thailand for €70 would otherwise have bought the original version in the Netherlands for €700?
And is that € 700.- damage?
Or do they assume that the Dutchman would otherwise have bought a bag in the Netherlands for € 70, so the damage is therefore € 70.
And if that Dutchman wouldn't do that, but if there were no fake bags for € 70, - he would have bought Thai silk and carried on with his or her old bag. How much is the damage then?
How much damage will I actually take if I buy such a ridiculously expensive bag? I cautiously estimate that at € 700.-.
Yes , do you know how much that original male cost ? That's theft, super cheap production
in a container and sell for ten times more . GIVE ME A COPY OF STUFF , comes often
from the same factory, so good stuff.
Bought a fake Bjorn Borg boxer once and that bitch just kept breaking down. When it was warm, the bottom of my body turned beautifully black. Even after visiting my washing machine several times. But in the Netherlands I almost never buy real brands because it causes budget problems. Never heard of that Louis Vuitton until a few years ago. It's not really my thing. And I usually find those (fake) watches from Rolex, among others, ugly.
What a hoax again: the highly charged estimates of fake imports x brand sales value = the loss. As if a fake Cartier or fake Hugo Boss wearer would have bought the designer clothes…
Brought fake watches from Thailand for my sons in the 90s. All their friends also died, so in the end they brought 2–about these kinds of watches. Everyone was urged to ask what time it was so they could take a look at their “Original Thai Cartier”. Did they really think that those boys would buy such an expensive watch with their pocket money?
About 15 years ago, a “slightly tinted” moped driver once managed to send my car insurance an invoice: Hfl 50 for patching up that rust wreck and ..Hfl 925 for the repair of his Cartier watch. Since the damage was under Hfl 1000, nothing was checked and recovered from me or my no-claim.
Hopefully this kind of damage is also included in this high bill?
And the Netherlands collects at least as much thanks to letterbox companies that avoid taxation in their own country. So crocodile tears.
The question of whether the item is a reason to stop buying counterfeit items: no, I didn't anyway. By the way, don't buy branded items either. Pretty sad (and hopeless) if you have to try to impress through your bag, watch or car.
many people don't have the money for branded clothing, now you see how much profit is made on those things from cina helachlook making a lot of things cheaper is fun for everyone and then they still have enough profit after making it is great why do they have to earn so much the world is only about MONEY and more MONEY the world is sick of MONEY.
I always buy original FBT Tshirts in Thailand.
Excellent quality, fits great.
If the brand is so exclusive that you don't even know it: It hangs in the rack at Big C.
For the same expensive brands, often severely underpaid Asians suffer. Can they now also earn some money from their work? No, no pity for big brands and manufacturers who establish themselves there where the counterfeit comes from ... because then they don't have to pay so many wage costs, but they do collect the fat profit. Just buy and pay attention to your own taste. But for safety reasons, do not land at Schiphol with 10 Vuittons …
The big department stores sell good designer clothes and not expensive. You can take 3 copies of each, so what are they complaining about now. Let them take a look at the black market in Beverwijk and China itself and Hong Kong can not be found in abundance on markets. Recently bought trim shoes in the Ecco outlet in the USA.
Arriving back from Bangkok, we held a discussion with four men that those shoes were not real. Just let them mess around bon was home when he took them.
Luckily I got my real shoes back.
Almost all people who buy a copy bag from Louis Vuitton, for example, or wear a counterfeit Rolex, Breitling or Tag Heuer watch, can never afford an original in terms of price. That these people carry the names of these very expensive brands through the world by means of a copy, you could also see as advertising an article, which, given the price, is only reserved for a small group of consumers. This way you can take a critical look at the actual damage that these companies claim to have.
Brands such as Nike produce the same shoe in Indonesia that is sold as 1. original Nike expensive to Europe and 2. under a different name cheap to countries such as Thailand. This generates turnover necessary to cover production costs and investments. It happens that cheap shoes are sold below the cost price, which gives a surcharge to the more expensive shoe. After all, the madman who would like to buy a real Nike for 300E will pay anyway. I also buy FBT sportswear at Big C that lasts for years and is of good quality. Do your quality comparison Zeeman and Outletstores compared to stores that sell expensive, you will come across large price differences while the same quality and source are involved. If you go to Kuwait and buy Seiko watches as a wholesaler tax-free, you will be a lot cheaper if you buy the same Seikos as a wholesaler here from the importer. On the other hand, the Philippine importer pays less for Eheim aquarium articles than the importer in the Netherlands. Philips also determines prices based on purchasing power in a specific country. The countries with more purchasing power then pay more to compensate for losses. What we all also know is that established brands have an extra storage profit because of the brand name. If you do not use a brand name, the manufacturer can deliver considerably cheaper. Some see this as fake and imitation while it concerns the same producer. I know that an article has been made 10x too expensive because a brand name is offered at an expensive location, I look for an alternative with the same quality for ten times as cheaply at a cheap location. That is called good business.
Yes, here we go again and let me know who is to blame, if the shopkeeper would lower the prices and not take such a pitiful profit it would be a lot more pleasant shopping, but they never have enough of the pocket fillers and I have Bought such a fake Breitling on the market in Hua Hin, a whopper, indistinguishable from the real thing, 1500 baht, let those who can afford it buy a real one for 25000 euros and more, I'm just saying, everyone's cut has more or less in it, from seen the week new range rover costs 25000 euros comes from china in England it costs 65000 euros look at the fortuner costs 1.300000bath in Thailand not available in Europe but costs more than 65000 euros if it is available so who is that crazy gerritje Long live the copy world and if you were born for a dime you will never become a quarter.
Well then go and buy a lot of fake on holiday because every euro I can drill through the nose of the Dutch state I enjoy that 😉
Most producers of expensive sports shoes and designer clothes have long since left the more expensive production countries, so that many people who have worked here for years have become unemployed. Under the guise that these companies cannot otherwise survive, many have started their production in Asian countries, where production is often done under inhumane conditions for starvation wages, where the only reason is to optimize profits as much as possible. Further advantages of these producers are the appalling labor laws, if they exist at all, and the huge tax advantages that usually prevail in these countries, to produce the product even cheaper. For example, if we look at the prices that consumers in Europe have to pay, we know exactly what these multis earn. Assuming that despite product piracy, a lot of money is still being made, it is surprising that the buyer of counterfeits is convicted by the judiciary, while the producer of so-called products, often exploiting people, goes free.
Was also in the Telegraaf today yes. I just posted my opinion there:
Regular trade is nada, nothing, let alone billions in lost income. The people who buy the counterfeit items are really not going to spend money on the original items if the counterfeits are not available because those items are way too expensive. So all those blow-jaw companies don't miss any income.
No reason not to buy here.
I buy what I want and it's no one else's business.
It's about the goods! not about the rules.
You can't attract rules or store your books.
Yes, if people want to be different, that is everyone's own free choice.
And stop saying it's low quality. In my experience it is almost…always just as good, sometimes even better.
Do you think that normal trade suffers from this. You don't buy Bjorn borg boxer shorts for nothing and then you want the same quality and they can never offer that, can they?
Such a Bjorn Borgding is usually under your pants, so you actually always buy it for free 😉