Name All of These COUNTERFEIT Tiki Mugs - General Tiki

A AceExplorer Grand Member (8 years) Deep in the Jacksonville Flori-duh jungle. Joined: Apr 03, 2008 Posts: 2566	A AceExplorer Posted posted on Tue, May 1, 2018 1:45 PM On 2018-05-01 13:23, Tiki Kaimuki wrote: I was surprised by the sheer number of rip-offs all from one vendor. It seems a fully acceptable practice in their culture - you make 1,000,000 for your US customer, then happily produce an overrun of an extra 10,000 or so. Then you sell the overruns at a huge profit on Alibaba or AliExpress. Then voila - now you're a double-millionaire. Once from the original sale, and then a second time from the profit on your clandestine overruns. I know I'm exaggerating (only a teensy bit, lol) but I hope my point is clear. They're not the only ones engaged in this though. They're just harder to reach out to and stop because (I'm guessing here) the government is making a cut somewhere as well and funding their infrastructure improvements and their military and their space program on our backs.

On 2018-05-01 13:23, Tiki Kaimuki wrote:
I was surprised by the sheer number of rip-offs all from one vendor.

It seems a fully acceptable practice in their culture - you make 1,000,000 for your US customer, then happily produce an overrun of an extra 10,000 or so. Then you sell the overruns at a huge profit on Alibaba or AliExpress. Then voila - now you're a double-millionaire. Once from the original sale, and then a second time from the profit on your clandestine overruns.

I know I'm exaggerating (only a teensy bit, lol) but I hope my point is clear. They're not the only ones engaged in this though. They're just harder to reach out to and stop because (I'm guessing here) the government is making a cut somewhere as well and funding their infrastructure improvements and their military and their space program on our backs.

Post #786440 by AceExplorer on Tue, May 1, 2018 1:45 PM