What's interesting to me is how big and accessible the fake market has gotten for luxury brand clothes and shoes. I remember when you'd buy fake Jordans and Coa

What's interesting to me is how big and accessible the fake market has gotten for luxury brand clothes and shoes. I remember when you'd buy fake Jordans and Coach purses out of trunks. Now you just go on Taobao and you can buy fakes that are completely indiscernible from the real items and costs $20. There's even user reviews for fakes that compare them to the real items like Amazon reviews so you having buying confidence from certain sellers that quality is high. For a lot of people it's more about repping the right brands than it is about having authentic items. This of course has consequences for the real brands who potentially lose sales to fakes, but from what I can tell it's similar to people who pirate movies, they only watch it because it's free, but wouldn't buy the dvd or see it in the theaters otherwise.