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Or quite the reverse, such as the last set of "Panasonic" batteries I bought off Amazon. After about 3 months all 12 had leaked and were dead. I'm damn sure they were not Panasonic. The reputation damage was to amazon, not Panasonic, and I resolved not to buy batteries from Amazon ever again.

No doubt a fake Lacoste would disintegrate in a fraction of the time of a genuine shirt.

Know what's ridiculous? I trust Poundland more than I trust Amazon to supply genuine goods.

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> No doubt a fake Lacoste would disintegrate in a fraction of the time of a genuine shirt.

Such a statement has no grounds to stand on. There are non-genuine items which are of the same or better quality than the genuine ones. You cannot just put them all in one bin.

> You cannot just put them all in one bin.

Amazon do, that's the problem.

As you provide no citations either, your assertion seems to have no more grounds. The chances of counterfeit being better quality are so vanishingly rare as to be headline worthy.

On fakes being of high quality I imagine it varies by market and supplier. If real Calvin Klein underwear is better than the thirty I got in Thailand four years ago it’s made of angel feathers and adamantium.

One of my in-laws more or less pioneered the entire clothing manufacturing industry in Southeast Asia. Watching him and his wife tear apart garments by looking at the stitches and feeling the fabric is incredibly entertaining. It's on par with the way I tear apart other people's code on GPUs. 10,000+ hours doing anything gives one some serious skill.

I've even used their expertise as evidence that AI and machine learning could do the same if we only knew how to train it. They've written several books on the subject and they are recognized authorities in Asia.

Can you PM me the names of the books. My wife does a lot of that stuff and she'd either be very interested or insulted that I gave her more work to look at.

Look up Conway Liu with "garment" and that ought to get you the information you need. I do not appear to have the karma to PM yet.

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