bladerunner2120 wrote:Dont think ace knows what he is talking about, tee shirts are not all created equal with various price taggs.
Dont think i need to go into the pros and cons of a fake lactose and a genuine one...i own both genuine and fakes and there is a huge difference between them not just $AU110.....you can spot a fake a mile away...i noticed a number of Europeans wearing fake lactose tee shirts at the airport as i was leaving for home once, the very first thing is the rolled collars.
Luckily here in AU lactose isnt a popular brand yet...but its getting pushed these days so most aussies wouldnt notice a copy,......anyway i starch my collars and i only wear once then in the wash.
I do agree that the quality is very high there (market clothes) much better than the rubbish market clothes we have here (often chinese made), and that being so im happy to buy market/copy etc as well as designer gear in the shopping centers when im in BKK.
Customs at Melbourne airport has never asked to look in my bags or my partner who is Thai, they tend to target older asians fearing that they may be bringing in food or plants/seeds etc.
Anyway i dont mind buying a few copys...but my partner now has the taste of the good life and its got to be an original for her now
Did you mean LaCrosse instead of lactose (milk sugar) ?
Yes, that's the brand name (rather than milk or hockey) often knocked off.
Used to be that the direction of the crocodile indicated a non-genuine or Chinese version.
I remember being in Naples back in the eighties when Lacoste was popular and you could buy rolls of those crocodile logos in the market.
A friend of mine used to entertain himself by sticking them on to the nastiest cheap pullovers he could find and going into Lacoste shops to wind up the staff.
STEVE G wrote:I remember being in Naples back in the eighties when Lacoste was popular and you could buy rolls of those crocodile logos in the market.
A friend of mine used to entertain himself by sticking them on to the nastiest cheap pullovers he could find and going into Lacoste shops to wind up the staff.
...............or taking the fake Rolex to a genuine outlet to do a battery replacement........
I bought my wife a fake Cartier watch several years ago in Chatuchak and when she took it to our local jeweler (an Aussie, btw) he was totally fooled. He took out his loupe and showed her a microscopic i.d. marker on the watch case as the indicator of authenticity. He asked my wife the price of the watch and she said "thirty-two". The jeweler thought $3200. My wife said, "No. Thirty-two." That's CDN$.
BTW, the watch is still happily ticking along with never a peep of trouble.
This winter she bought a nice Armani fake for $28. Still ticking also.
There are good fakes and awful fakes. I can take you to some good fake places in Pratunam any time.
Of course not all tee shirts are created equal with various price tags. That's rather the point, isn't it?
I don't doubt that a "lactose" shirt would be seen as a fake, even without the price "tagg" (is the second 'g' silent?). And lacrosse and hockey have nothing to do with each other, totally different games.
If he was fooled by it you should have offered to sell it to him....
Some of the best fake watches used to come from Hong Kong also sold in Thailand. The Rolex Oyster perpetuals had all the necessary markings and a realistic sweep second hand movement - almost as good as the real thing at a fraction of the price.
chopsticks wrote:If he was fooled by it you should have offered to sell it to him....
Some of the best fake watches used to come from Hong Kong also sold in Thailand. The Rolex Oyster perpetuals had all the necessary markings and a realistic sweep second hand movement - almost as good as the real thing at a fraction of the price.
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My wife likes the watch. The guy who sold it to me in Chatuchak said the best fake watches are now made in Taiwan.
...............or taking the fake Rolex to a genuine outlet to do a battery replacement........ 
was fooled by it you should have offered to sell it to him.... 
