What do you think about buying knockoffs?

almost as pathetic as buying the real thing

Got some knockoff HBA and NIkes.

The HBA stuff (when it was popular) is lowkey so no one asked, but if anyone asked about the shoes, I'd let them know they were fake.

I don't give a shit if someone buys knockoffs or the real thing and faggots who hate on others for buying knockoffs are annoying pricks. Wear whatever you want, I don't give a shit.

nah I own a legit pair of qasas, they're definitely significantly less comfortable than something like an ultra boost or even most bootleg 350s

I am too afraid to ever buy fake shoes. Seems like it would be really easy to fuck your foot up if you got the wrong thing.

what does that even mean

I fucked my food up and had a lot of pain for like 3 months after a skating accident. I was wearing nike skateshoes pretty much all the time and they are flat. As soon as I starting wearing a running shoe the pain went away.

I imagine that a fake shoe wouldnt get the arch support right and they would be painful to wear.

I wanna buy some Gosha knockoffs because his new line looks dank, but idk where to look for them

you could just buy a pair of shoe insoles? idk dude, just a suggestion

w2c a replica

I'd probably buy fake band merch thats literally overpriced screen prints on gildan tees but thats the limit

I think its kinda lame. If you like a piece, buy a piece.

Taobao had it a while back.

I wanted the rick shoes with the platform on the toe and heel. I dont understand it tho, I think even the real ones would fuck my feet, even with an insole.

What about pieces that are no longer available. Or bootleg stuff that never existed in the first place.

>I'm helping someone make enough to eat instead of buying them a lambo. They def aren't getting rich from making fakes,

you don't know that at all

there could easily be people at the top of such operations making more than enough for luxury items. i see that stuff sell by the truck load on ebay and the profit margin must be incredible

i wouldn't be surprised if they have people working beneath them who are struggling to survive though

buying designer knockoffs has to be the worst symbolism possible for an attempt at an anti-capitalism message

us true radicals are minimalists

>what do you think about buying knockoffs?
Buy vetememes

The offical knock off

The knock offs are printed on Gildan any way. You shouldn't be paying 50$ for a 10$ sweater just cause Kanye wrote his name on it with gothic letters. In this specific case, knock offs are the same quality. It's just shopping smarter.

Even if there is a bigger entity making them like you are eluding to, there is no way they are as big as the original. Take fake supreme for example. If you buy real you are buying from supreme and they make the money. If you buy fake there are hundreds upon hundreds of options. Anyone could be getting paid for it.

>buying designer knockoffs has to be the worst symbolism possible for an attempt at an anti-capitalism message

>us true radicals are minimalists

I dont think you understand capitalism

>The knock offs are printed on Gildan

almost every fake I've got has been better quality than Gildan. In most cases you are probably getting a superior product.

das sad mang

is that a good reason to laugh at fuccbois?

I'd laugh at anyone wearing kanye west clothing, regardless of if it's printed on stock Gildan or the nicest cotton money could buy.

The fact that it is Gildan alone is reason enough.

If anything its a reason not to even buy a fake. If anyone thinks it is real they will just laugh at how dumb you are cuz they think you spent a fuckton of money on a gildan shirt.

the sad thing is you think there's a difference. like 90% of this expensive "designer" shit is shit quality cotton and all you're paying for is the design which is easily replicated to near perfection. just some shitty screen printing and cut and sew that any fucking gook child can do.

i actually like vetements but don't have the money to drop on such basic pieces

so in this case the knockoffs are fine, as vetements themselves are just making knockoffs and redone other pieces.

might cop that orange LS replica

I want the melon green one, but thats just because melon green is my favorite color. I wonder if there's a way to remove screen printing

>I dont think you understand capitalism

w2c pants?

I dont think you understand that graphic either.

The Kanye shit is literally printed on Gildan

I found a fake Supreme t-shirt in a thrift shop once and was surprised how nice the quality actually was. Actually nice and thick like real Supreme t-shirts. The only thing that gave it away was the stitching on the tag desu.

I have a friend who bought a supreme patch and sewed it on to a Gildan sweatshirt. How's that?

bootleg is the hot new trend, get on it and enjoy it

thats a custom

i dont think it can be considered illegal but meh supreme is god tier cringe for children anyway

i used to buy replicas a year ago. i recently stopped and understood its better to save your money and buy legit stuff.

It's easy to find, £10, but what would you wear with it?

should i buy this vetements hoodie

im a guy so ive been really debating the cropped fit for the past few days

damn bro... u rite

holyshit that looks fucking retarded

Where can I buy reps? Taobao is way too complicated and I don't think they deliver to bosnia,and aliexpress is cracking down on them hard.

taobao literally the only decent place

browse /r/fashionreps and /r/repsneakers

you should use an agent like basetao

they basically order for you / take care of communication in china and then ship you the stuff

Thanks for the reply but taobao is complicated because of the agents. I just want a pair of sunglasses for 20 dollars but the expenses climb up. Not to mention how rigorous they are on the border,I can't believe some people can order kilograms of merchandise without problems.

how is it complicated

you literally paste the link into their site and pay for the item

then when they receive it you pay for shipping

you probably wont get stopped by customs for just a single pair of glasses

I meant it's complicated because of the costs that keep piling up.

>pay for sunglasses
>pay for shipping
>pay for agent
>pay for shipping
>pay for customs

Also they stopped a package once that looked like a submariner watch and I somehow talked my way out of them destroying it.

idk not my money i dont really care what you do

just letting you know you probably wont find anything on aliexpress

and even if you do its usual a marked-up shit tier batch

I appreciate the help man,it's rare for someone here to actually answer in real time. It's just that taobao is in chinese and google translate is crap and the prices are weird. I don't know the final cost and that is putting me off.

Don't even know which one is the fake.

That should say something.

just use chrome and it'll auto translate for you

a lot of agents also have cost estimates

basetao only takes 5% service fee, so that's literally $1 on top of $20 glasses

shipping also won't be more than $10, probably half that or even less

i don't think it's okay for people to look as good as I do but not put in the work to earn the money to do so

Morally it's wrong, but if you don't naturally look good without clothes it's not even wroth trying

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>thinking you can get a good quality raf sweater for cheap on taobao
Just kill yourself instrad

I own chicken and turkeys, I constantly get free eggs from them.
Is it morally wrong to consume them because some loser on the internet pays for their eggs?
Is it morally wrong to be smart and resourceful?

Vetements are shit anyway so it doesn't matter if they're real or not desu