Behind Knock Off Designer Handbags

Tanners Beware: Knock Off Designer Handbags And What Your Really Buying!

Have you purchased knock off designer handbags in the past? Do you know what you are really buying?

Tanners and designer handbags go hand in hand. No pun intended. Seriously, if you spend a couple of hours in a tanning salon, you will see all kinds of handbags. And a HUGE percentage of these handbags are knock offs. Many tanning salons sell knockoffs because they can jack the price up, and get them really cheap. So that got us thinking about who makes them, and why should we give them our money. And what our researched uncovered was not good...

Here is why knock off designer handbags are probably a bad choice...

Counterfeit products represent 7% of world trade. That's more than $350 billion, according to the International Chamber of Commerce. So why is it so big? Lets look at one of the biggest segments of the counterfeit market. Designer handbags.

Designer handbags are in high demand. That's why they charge ridiculous amounts of money. As a result, knock offs have become a huge business because most people aren't willing to spend several hundred or even several thousand on a designer handbag.

It's easy to think you aren't doing much harm for buying a knock off designer handbag. But it couldn't be farther from the truth. Yes, by purchasing a knock off designer handbag you might be sticking it to the designer who has the nerve to charge a couple thousand dollars for their designer hand bag. But the problem is that there is a very good chance your knockoff designer handbag is supporting or contributing to one, or all of these horrendous problems...

Child labor violations...a small child may have stitched your knock off handbag. As a matter of fact, it's likely. And this child may be working 16 hours a day in a sweat shop, making a dollar or two a day, if they are lucky.
Organized Crime...organized crime is deeply involved in the knock off arena. Anything that makes a fast buck is what these people go after, and knock offs are easy money for them. All it takes is a phone call or an e-mail to get the ball rolling to one of many countries that run huge knock off designer handbag and counterfeit product manufacturing companies (sweat shops), and they are in business.
Terrorism...organized crime is deeply involved in knock off designer handbags and thousands of other counterfeit operations because it's easy money. Terrorist are no different. Except the money they get goes right into supporting terrorism activities. Like funding training camps, recruiting suicide bombers (children), and funding more businesses for the same ends.
And if that's not enough to get you to think twice about buying knock off designer handbags, local businesses who are trying to make a living and contribute to the economy are losing out on revenue when someone chooses a counterfeit handbag over spending money in their store.

The next time you are tempted to buy a knock off designer handbag, think again. Because either a child has put their sweat and tears into it for almost nothing, or you are helping support a criminal enterprise, terrorists, or all of the above.

Although the chances of you getting in trouble for buying a counterfeit hand bag, it's not impossible. Some tourists in Italy were fined $4000 for buying a fake Prada bag.

So that's the bad news. The good news is that you can get authentic designer handbags for as little as $5 per month. You'll can get the real thing instead of a knock off designer handbag, and you will be contributing to an ethical business (in the USA, if that is important to you) instead of a truly shameless one.

How? Instead of buying knock off designer handbags from illegal operations that abuse children and fund criminal enterprises, borrow it! That's right. You can borrow designer handbags at BagsBorrowSteal.com. And you don't even have to give it back!

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