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Full of fakes. But hey, we all know a fake when we see one.
The label says Prada, Christian Lacroix or Ralph Lauren but they are not top-quality and cannot possibly be real — certainly not at the prices charged. Meanwhile, hawkers offer Rolex and Cartier watches... All fakes. How could they be anything else?
Some of the most famous brand name goods are there: Soaps, face creams, detergents, radios, calculators, ink jet cartridges, spark plugs and vehicle spare parts, tea, coffee — and so much more. All fake, all sold in Saudi Arabia. The quality of packaging was near perfect. Even the manufacturers can have difficulty telling the difference. It is big business, and getting bigger all the time. There are more fake goods being sold than ever before.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=15§ion=0&article=89624&d=5&m=2...
The label says Prada, Christian Lacroix or Ralph Lauren but they are not top-quality and cannot possibly be real — certainly not at the prices charged. Meanwhile, hawkers offer Rolex and Cartier watches... All fakes. How could they be anything else?
Some of the most famous brand name goods are there: Soaps, face creams, detergents, radios, calculators, ink jet cartridges, spark plugs and vehicle spare parts, tea, coffee — and so much more. All fake, all sold in Saudi Arabia. The quality of packaging was near perfect. Even the manufacturers can have difficulty telling the difference. It is big business, and getting bigger all the time. There are more fake goods being sold than ever before.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=15§ion=0&article=89624&d=5&m=2...
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There is a serious awareness problem, he says. It is easy with the street hawkers, shoddy leather goods and badly packaged perfumes. But the counterfeiters are good — very good. In what he calls his “museum” at the company’s Jeddah head office, it is almost impossible to tell the difference between fakes and the real McCoy.
Worldwide, $360 billion a year was lost by legitimate producers of goods, software, DVDs and the like. By the end of last year that figure was up to $780 billion a year. In the GCC, it is a $7 billion annual loss to real business, in the Kingdom, $4 billion a year.
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