One trend that has sprung from the marketing of designer clothing and fashion accessories is the marketing of fake or knock off products. While at first glance these less expensive alternatives may seem like a bargain, for the most part they are not. For one thing, they are without exception, made from inferior materials and constructed to lower standards.
While this may not seem like a big deal at first, it will be when buttons start falling off and stitching comes undone. While you will get the label of the designer on your product that is usually where the similarity stops to the trained observer. High end designer clothing and fashion accessories are built to high standards and pass more then one inspection before they are packed up for shipping.
When you buy knock off designer products, they rarely go through any inspection process, so in the end the only one that will be fooled into thinking it looks and feels like an authentic designer product will be you. One problem that plagues the Internet is people selling fake designer products as the real thing.
You can avoid being taken by these unscrupulous merchants if you follow a few simple rules. Rule number one is that if the deal seems too good to be true then it almost always is. If a product is selling for less then its wholesale cost then it has to be a fake. Beware of obscure overseas sources of designer clothing and fashion accessories.
If you see a website that is offering cheap designer clothing or accessories that have to be shipped from China or Indonesia than common sense should tell you that what they are selling is counterfeit. Also, it is now a legal requirement for all websites to list full contact information so if the site doesn't, that would be an obvious red flag that what you are buying is fake.