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will anyone be buying counterfeit gift this Christmas?

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  • 12-12-2018 5:17pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭


    Just hearing on the radio today that some of the counterfeit perfume on sale on market stalls and that can contain lead :eek:

    Just wondering how lucrative this market is and what is the quality of this stuff normally like, and if people on here regularly buy fake items be it clothing , perfume, handbags, shoes or whatever, around Christmas time (or any other time of the year come to think of it) and save a lot of money by doing so?

    Does the receiver also know its fake or cant they tell normally


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  • Registered Users Posts: 13,707 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Can someone please just give this person his own Kneemos-style thread for asking stupid questions???


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Can someone please just give this person his own Kneemos-style thread for asking stupid questions???

    I think it's a sh*tethreadbot tbh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭DontThankMe


    Yeah I've already purchased some counterfeit football jerseys that I've going to be giving to a relative this Christmas.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 327 ✭✭Raheem Euro


    I'm gonna buy real stuff with counterfeit money.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,783 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Will be giving the nieces and nephews counterfeit money in a card.

    Feck ‘em.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Can someone please just give this person his own Kneemos-style thread for asking stupid questions???

    unfortunately I havent swallowed a dictionary so I dont even know what that means :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I think it's a sh*tethreadbot tbh

    each to there own - i wont force ye to follow it :)


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Of all the counterfeit stuff you could buy - bags, clothes, etc, who in their right mind would buy perfume or beauty products that were fake?

    I like my face too much :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    My preference is fake news.

    could be - friend of mine once bought a load of fags one christmas , had marlboro on the pack, quite convincing print - got a funny taste of metal or something and ened up chuckin them


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 327 ✭✭Raheem Euro


    It's all cosmetic.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 22,306 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    unfortunately I havent swallowed a dictionary so I dont even know what that means :)

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=96872515


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,570 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Can someone please just give this person his own Kneemos-style thread for asking stupid questions???

    Say what you want about Andy's threads, but you have to admit they usually end up being kinda funny. Usually for all the wrong reasons. Considering how every second thread in After Hours is dole bashing, anti-traveller, compo claim, immigration related misery, Andy's threads are a silly breath of fresh air.

    Take it away, Andy.


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,570 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Take it away, Andy.

    I mean... take it Andy



    I'm hilarious.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    unfortunately I havent swallowed a dictionary so I dont even know what that means :)

    Here you go Andy...


    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=96872515


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    Say what you want about Andy's threads, but you have to admit they usually end up being kinda funny. Usually for all the wrong reasons. Considering how every second thread in After Hours is dole bashing, anti-traveller, compo claim, immigration related misery, Andy's threads are a silly breath of fresh air.

    Take it away, Andy.

    thanks (I think?) ... :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,769 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    thanks (I think?) ... :D

    Thank you fellow human.


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,433 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Can someone please just give this person his own Kneemos-style thread for asking stupid questions???


    HEY?


    Stupid is as stupid does.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,166 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Say what you want about Andy's threads, but you have to admit they usually end up being kinda funny. Usually for all the wrong reasons. Considering how every second thread in After Hours is dole bashing, anti-traveller, compo claim, immigration related misery, Andy's threads are a silly breath of fresh air.

    Take it away, Andy.

    These fake goods are bought and sold by dole scroungers and travellers. The entire fake industry is promoted by these scumbags that the hard working taxpayer funds via dole and forever homes. Immigrants are in on the act too. All of them are into the fake compo claims ...obviously. Have i done this right?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,747 ✭✭✭degsie


    OP is a Russian bot, bought 5 anyway.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    you hear quite a lot these days about online shopping taking business away from local shops - but i wonder how much business shops are loosing out to these people selling these items ? - quite a fair bit i hazard a guess.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 82,587 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    I always find it funny when on holidays and you see the lucky lucky men selling their wares, it's usually 90% Irish people buying from them thinking the are getting a bargain when they are actually buying pure trash.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    you hear quite a lot these days about online shopping taking business away from local shops - but i wonder how much business shops are loosing out to these people selling these items ? - quite a fair bit i hazard a guess.

    What if these local shops had online shops?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Thinly veiled “pm me if you want any” thread


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,747 ✭✭✭degsie


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    What if these local shops had online shops?

    Careful now!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Auguste Comte


    I was going to buy some counterfeit pencils until I heard they had led in them aswell.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    I get people's reasons for fake bags, watches etc...
    You can display them to others and pretend you own a luxury item, but in reality you can't.
    Fake perfume though... unless you are carrying the bottle around with you, others will think a cat pissed on you or the local wino slobbered all over your face.
    Even some of the chain fashion stores like Zara have perfumes that are decent if you're stuck for cash.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,431 ✭✭✭cml387


    I was going to buy some counterfeit pencils until I heard they had led in them aswell.

    You mean "lead".
    You kinda spoiled that, didn't you?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭somefeen


    Grandeeod wrote: »
    These fake goods are bought and sold by dole scroungers and travellers. The entire fake industry is promoted by these scumbags that the hard working taxpayer funds via dole and forever homes. Immigrants are in on the act too. All of them are into the fake compo claims ...obviously. Have i done this right?

    Its kinda sad that I found the first sentences of this very convincing.

    Yes, you're doing it right.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Auguste Comte


    cml387 wrote: »
    I was going to buy some counterfeit pencils until I heard they had led in them aswell.

    You mean "lead".
    You kinda spoiled that, didn't you?
    You obviously never bought knock off pencils.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    I get people's reasons for fake bags, watches etc...
    You can display them to others and pretend you own a luxury item, but in reality you can't.
    Fake perfume though... unless you are carrying the bottle around with you, others will think a cat pissed on you or the local wino slobbered all over your face.
    Even some of the chain fashion stores like Zara have perfumes that are decent if you're stuck for cash.


    Fake Make-Up is another big one apparently. Bewildering stuff. You're paying for the quality, that's why they are so expensive. Having the box with some make up that could be from Dealz does not make sense.


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