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Unfortunately the skimpers are one step ahead of you: "Counterfeit YKK zippers are flooding the world market and undermining consumer confidence in your product

• seanp2k2 12y ago
  Yeah, but you can pretty much always tell by actually trying it a few times. It's easy to stamp those letters in, but very hard to nail the quality.
• kazinator 12y ago
  It's their own fault. According to Wikipedia, "YKK has manufacturing facilities in 71 countries". If you spread you know-how all over the world in search of better margins, of course that creates copycat spin offs based on the same people and equipment. Anyway, it could be just a lie. Any time a genuine overseas YKK factory puts out crap, they could just dump it on the market with the YKK boss' approval. Then spin a story about how it is counterfeit so as to try to protect the brand. Maybe the only good YKK zipper is one that is actually made in Japan using the mythical 100 year old zipper-making machines.