where can i find replica handbags
 

i would like to know where it would be better to shop for replica handbags in singapore or in thailand

thailand you will find them all around the city.....some are better than others....the weekend market....pratinum market... the market off of silom road at noontime...

thanks for the feedback have you ever been in singapore can you find replica there or is it hard also where can i find jewerly .

I hate to be a party pooper, but this is trademark theft and takes away legitimate jobs. Piracy in clothing brands and entertainment taKES money out of the people who create things and who legitimately should get the profits of their creativity. Please don't encourage it.

And why go halfway around the world to buy fake western goods? Buy beautiful and unique handbags by local designers.

Exactly, Kathie.

Hate to be a party pooper, but much of the "design" is buyers heading over to places like SEA and finding the "next big thing". The "designers", themselves, dream up outrageous mind-fart runway clothing and sail America's Cup yachts, while all those at work scrape to eat.

That said, most of the copy crap concentrates more on copying and less on build. Why not just find something unknown and beat the "designer" to the next big thing? Besides, by the time you get that "hot" item home, the "designer" will probably tell you you're supposed to like something else!

This may be an old thread, but the information is applicable to fakes anywhere:
http://www.fodors.com/community/unit...kes-in-nyc.cfm

How silly. You all know that when it comes to purses, shoes and other fake merchandise, no amount of self-righteous windbaggery will deter women from the chase. I was sitting with a multi-million (as in more than $100 million) hotel owner one day when an assistant told her the location of where she bought some out-of-copyright LV (and other) goods on the weekend. The obsessively religious & always militantly moralizing hotelier could barely get out of the door fast enough to acquire some fake goods asap. Nothing comes between women and purses today - nothing.

Hello. Self-righteous windbagger here. People can be educated. Even those of the female persuasion can occasionally have a rational, enlightened, purseless thought in our pretty little heads.

So are any of these creative new handbag designers in Vietnam? Anyone in particular?

seems like these comments belong in the lounge....haha

the handbag market is big enough for all... i don't feel sorry for any of them....the real or the fake....THEY ARE ALL UGLY...

When I was in Hanoi, I was shopping at Craftlink and met a woman who owned a high-end boutique in Switzerland. She goes to Hanoi sevral times a year to buy some of the interesting and unusual hand-made handbags there.

There are local designer bags in Bangkok, and I'm sure ther aer some in VN as well. But do look at the amazing hand-crafted bags.

When it comes to marketing, often "education" is actually "delusion".

Thanks Kathie -- I'll definitely be on the lookout.

Fakes are fakes and as such theft of intellectual property.

What you think about this is open to debate.

Fakes in thailand fall into 2 categories - those that make whatever they like and stick a well-known logo on it.

the others are often released by the same people who manufacture the originals - (or used to before losing a contract) - they can be OK.

But with ALL copies or fakes the quality is usually crap.
check materials and stitching - without the supervision of the customer company short-cuts are the order of the day. If you have any appreciation of workmanship or quality at all you will be let down by what you see.

At best you might bring home something that your friends can have a laugh about when you show it them.

If you think you'll get a cheap "reproduction" of the original you will be disappointed.

as recommended, you might find it far more satisfying to support local design and manufacture by buying original local designs. Thailand - always fond of"face" has some great designers.

I've bought some amazing fakes in Thailand. Those of u who decry buying them are naive, pc imbeciles brainwashed by corporate industry that's been raping ppl financially for ages.

Yet you so need a bag that says "LV" on it that you will go to Thailand and buy some piece of garbage with the logo on it instead of a quality bag without the logo on it. Now who is brainwashed by corporate industry???

I would not look in Singapore for fake handbags, as Singapore actually tries to enforce trademark laws, and fake bags are not really evident there as they were in the late 1980’s when you could go to Change Alley downtown and see thousands of them. In Thailand you will see them everywhere.

I would agree with the above posters that spending time and money looking for fake bags is rather silly. In addition to being both illegal and a not inconsiderable contribution to the funding of activities of organized crime, there is so much more to see and do in Thailand and Singapore, that simply ending up with a bad quality (and probably overpriced) fake bag as a “souvenir” of a region which has such vibrant arts and crafts is rather a shame, IMO.

I must admit to amusement at merckxxx’s comments about women and the buying of fake merchandise. From what I see of the crowds of men poring over the fake Rolexes in the Temple Street night market here in Hong Kong, the <i>gender</i> of the silly buyer of fake merchandise is irrelevant. I also find it very amusing that merckxxx makes the assumptions that (i) multi-millionaires are not cheap, and (ii) religious people are never hypocritical when it comes to their private versus public behavior. What a lovely, rose-coloured world merckxxx must live in where those assumptions are true, and where the only people buying fake merchandise are women. For the rest of us in the real world, open a newspaper and see which pastor/priest is in trouble this week for nefarious activities…and who doesn’t know a cheap rich person?

I would finally note that the laws being infringed by the fake LV seller are trademark, not copyright. Copyright applies to artistic /literary creations like books (and websites). A copyright does not have to be registered with a governmental agency or have ownership actively asserted to maintain its effectiveness, as a trademark does. Most importantly, copyrights have a limited term, which is generally the lifetime of the creator plus 70 years. After that they become public domain and anyone can copy them.

Loki- Nice try, but your logic fails you once again.

This feels like the lounge! Yikes!!!

The OP asked a pretty simple question (and has not returned once the fire storm started, I might note), and a simple answer could have been given. I don't get into the preaching aspect here, sorry. I leave that to others. But I agree that it belongs in the lounge.

I note that the OP said nothing about LV, or any other particular brand for that matter.

Simple answer to the OP: MBK in Bangkok has lots of copy bags with all sorts of names and prices and quality. Super quality bags (and very expensive I might add) can be purchased in some of the more 'hidden out of the way places' at the Silom noon market. Paying $500 for a Chanel is not out of the ordinary. The quality level is up to par with the original! As was suggested by a previous post, maybe they are walking right out of the 'real' factory...

Do I buy copy bags? No... not really interested in them at this point. I admit to having purchased a couple of them when I first started going to Bangkok, 21 trips ago. I have looked at copy bags recently, and usually passed them by. They are plentiful and obviously much in demand as there are always farangs buying them! Hand crafted and unique is more my kind of souvenir at this point. But to answer the OP's question, Bangkok is the place to get them.

Look out for the customs man when you get your fakes back home.

Hi Karen... yes, you are right. I've never (knock on wood) had my 3 heavy suitcases opened by customs officials, but I don't have anything they would need/want to confiscate anyway! But you are right, they have a right to look. If you have only one copy item, they will probably just let you pass. But if you have enough that the customs agent gets the impression that you want to sell them... you might be in hot water.

so what would you tell the customs man about all those chicken bags you buy??

I don't think it's a lounge discussion as the OP was asking for shopping advice. Some people are advising her (or him?) to think about not doing this for a number of reasons. Mercck always amuses me. He's mostly on the Lounge and turns every travel post into a Lounge rant.
Anyway, if I can get one person to think about not wasting their money on ripoffs and spending on original and much more beautiful stuff, I'll be happy.
And to Cicerone's point, the one and only spat my husband and I got into on our last Asia trip was over his wanting to buy a fake Rolex in HK. And he has a real one! Men! Go figure...

> So are any of these creative new handbag designers in Vietnam? Anyone in particular?

Ipa Nima. Vietnam's first fashion label, specialising in accessories and bags above all, started by a Hong Kong lawyer and former fashion editor of a Hong Kong magazine more than a decade ago. Based in Hanoi; outlets across Asia.

http://www.ipa-nima.com/

Peter N-H

Interesting stuff, Peter. It reminds me of some of the hand made bags I've been buying in Bangkok and Chiang Mai the last few years. Similar styles. These are more my style than a copy LV. I will have to look for this Imp-Nima brand when I'm back in Bangkok.

Not my style but interesting to know about. So thanks.

<i>Tall and tan and young and lovely,
The girl from Ipanema goes walking,
And when she passes, each one she passes goes - aah

When she walks, she’s like a samba
That swings so cool and sways so gentle
That when she passes, each one she passes goes, ooh

Ooh, but I watch her so sadly,
How can I tell her I love her?
Yes, I would give my heart gladly,
But each day, when she walks to the sea,
She looks straight ahead, not at me
<i>

Ipa nima?? What a lame name. No cachet whatsoever.. Design leaves me completely nonplussed.

another ugly one..

OK let me chime in with a few thoughts. Why are the knockoffs so seemingly popular? Well I surmise for a few reasons. 1) The originals are so outragously priced that most people are not able to afford them ( and I say them because I have never met a woman who owns just one purse- seems it is a never ending search for the next one, and the next , etc, etc).
2) A lot (but by no means all) of women (and men are no exception) want them because they confer some sort of status. This applies to the Ralph Loren polo clothing, Nike sneakers, Nordstrom, etc. All of these have their emblems which purportably say to others look at me I'm somebody, I have money, I have good taste, etc.
This is especially true when it comes to a woman's purse- more so than any other item of clothing.

If the designers would market their bags at reasonable prices so that more people could afford them then I suspect that the knockoffs would not be as popular. The designers keep their prices very high ($500 for a purse - really?) so that the masses cannot afford them and thus only the well to do can afford to buy them - thus conferring the "status" again.

I'm not endorsing any position on this issue just sharing what I have observed over the years when it comes to designer goods. By the way I don't own any designer goods fake or real.

BillT: Why kick around a two year old thread?

Because a spammer brought it to the top and he didn't notice it was an old thread.