Somewhat related - I received what I thought was a really nice Buck Knife for Christmas from my father who is notoriously frugal. On returning home, I am curio

Somewhat related - I received what I thought was a really nice Buck Knife for Christmas from my father who is notoriously frugal. On returning home, I am curious what my dad paid for such a nice knife so I go on Buck’s website and cannot find it nor anything with a similar shape. I look to the box for a model number, nothing. No information on the box at all other than the logo and some talk of how amazing the warranty is. I scanned the barcode on the box, no results. Then I get curious and Google “counterfeit Buck knife” and eventually I find a Reddit thread pointing me towards an Alibaba Express listing which is my exact knife sans Buck logo on the blade. I am really curious where my dad got the knife, but I don’t want to bring it up to him. It’s still a very nice looking and feeling knife, we’ll see how the blade holds up of course. All this is to say that I had no idea this whole underworld of counterfeit knives existed.